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Eating meat is natural? Then why is it our bodies cannot handle digesting raw meat like say, lions? Eating meat is not natural. Humans are not predators.
by cdnsteve 11y ago
Eating meat is natural? Then why is it our bodies cannot handle digesting raw meat like say, lions?
Eating meat is not natural. Humans are not predators.
- odiroot 11y agoHave you heard about tartare steak? It's really popular in Central Europe.
- slyn 11y agoHumans can eat raw meat and do. Tartare, sushi, uncooked shellfish, blue rare, and so on is all raw, though not necessarily common because of disease caused by unsafe handling of the meats and the potential for eating live parasites from when the animal was alive. A secondary reason for cooking meat is that it'll be more nutritious from the heat making the nutrients more accessible for the human body's digestive system. Also, just for the record animals that do eat raw meat can get sick from it and/ or acquire parasites just the same as humans. Most people who have pets (particularly dogs that'll eat anything) for a long time experience this at some point.
- throwaway_gfsd 11y agoOur teeth certainly support it. There's a difference between eating exclusively meat, and eating some meat.
- bsder 11y ago> Eating meat is not natural. Humans are not predators. Um, you are completely off base. Current evidence seems to indicate that, in fact, many of our evolutionary changes from the great apes were all about hunting via endurance. Effectively we evolved to simply chase prey until it collapsed. So, not only is eating meat natural, and not only are we predators. But, we are the implacable Terminator of the animal world.
- erikb 11y agoThe two other comments underneath this one (at the time of my writing) both state something along the lines of "of course humans can digest raw meat, because there are raw meat dishes". This is reasoning is flawed. You can eat a lot of things that you can't digest. I also believe, though, that we can and do digest raw meat. But I have no specific knowledge about that (and this is not a request to get spammed with data, thanks).
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- Turing_Machine 11y agoA very high proportion of the traditional diet of Inuit, Iñupiat, Yu'pik, and related peoples consists of raw meat. If humans couldn't digest it, those peoples would have gone extinct long ago.
- erikb 11y agoThis is a much better argument. Do you see the difference between your argument and the argument of "there are raw meat dishes, therefore we must be able to digest it"? Things going through your stomach doesn't mean they can be processed (something everybdoy should be aware of about once a day). Having a huge portion of your callories depend on raw meat on the other hand, that means there needs to be some processing, otherwise you'd be dead. Keep in mind, that I was saying the argument was BS, not the thesis. I agree with the thesis, in fact, that humans can process raw meat and it's part of our natural diet.
- odiroot 11y agoNot only consists. It's basically the biggest share of their diet. Naturally they also eat the fat and other non-muscle tissue of these animals.