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The 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 th
by erikb 11y ago
The 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.