RE: Eating Bear????
The only time I've eaten it was over 30 years ago when we had a big black bruin that was hanging around the place and trying to get into our house in northern MN. He wouldn't take the warnings, so we put him down.
Like already said, the fat is very strong and you want to get it off completely. It's very lean otherwise. I don't recall it was anything special to eat. Certainly, it's not anything as good as Elk or venison, at least what little I've tasted.
I always wonder too about some of the rotten stuff (animals) they eat. I just don't hunt them for that reason and if they stay away, I don't go looking for them.