To buy meat for dinner with Professor Danielle Cyr,
my translator of The Alford Saga into French. we visited
a yak farm far back in the woods.
Yak has less saturated fat (3%) than beef, or even
chicken. And 40% more protein (by weight) than beef.
What fat they do have contains omega 3.
Jean-Guy Duchesne and Guylaine Babin say they have
the only Yak farm in all of Canada.
They worked in the Arctic, saved up, and only ten years
ago came to the Gaspe Coast, cleared land, built barns,
and bought yaks.
They built their house.
A yak bull costs $50,000. It weighs 1700 lbs.
They have three.
A yak cow costs $3,000. She weighs only 600 lbs,
and I was surprised to find her rather small,
about four feet high. They have 90 head.
Yaks consume about 1/3 as much as beef, and eat
only grass or hay. How ecologically sound!
Yak tastes like moose and deer, but more delicate.
It must be cooked RARE! They only butcher males.
Danielle Cyr confessed she loved yak meat.
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