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The ban on suet is actually from the Scriptures. That's the fat that'd be considered unhealthy for someone like myself and my producer. That's fat that needs to be burned (or rather, needed to be burned in the past), not consumed.
As for the suet for pemmican, I didn't even know that. Native Americans actually didn't know that suet was never supposed to be consumed by any homo sapien, as you'd want to think of the suet/KPH/kidney fat as fatty cancer cells.
I'm from a Roman Catholic background and have never heard of a religious restriction on animal fats
I also don't know what you mean by suet being burned, it looks clean and white and renders into tallow that is clear through to yellow depending on how good the animal's diet was
It can be older fat, so I can imagine it accumulating poisons if the animal has been eating poisons (I recall getting seasonal allergies out of season while I was burning fat, for example) but I have never read any research saying suet was worse than subcutaneous fat
I know native Americans who made pemmican ranked the fats best to worst as
You'd expect it to taste bad of it was bad for us
Also I don't trust religious food rules. If you want to argue food here your best off bringing good quality science (controlled trials for example) or at least some anecdote. Appeal to a religious authority isn't very convincing
I presume it's from the first 5 books of the Bible, which seem to be shared by the abrehamic religions, could you refer me to the chapter and verse?
Edit to add: if your religion bans a food I don't think you're wrong to avoid it, mine (of which I'm no longer a believer) advises to eat only fish on Fridays, which is good advice - ocean based foods are definitely healthy unless they have too much mercury
2nd edit after looking it up, it's a uniquely Jewish restriction. Wikipedia has more detail which is marked [needs citation]
The main article points us at Leviticus (The Law) 7:23 to 25 which boils down to
26 is don't eat blood
Jewish study almost certainly extends and clarifies this, Christianity doesn't follow Leviticus so doesn't notice these things
I wonder if this is because it's from a farming culture. High fat diets are dangerous if they are also high carbohydrate diets