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Im no animal expert but I was watching Animal Planet and this thought just hit me: animals eat their food raw and uncooked... blood,guts everything... now us humans we have to cook our food and we usually dont drink the blood or eat the guts etc... so what differs in our digestive system that prevents us from doing it?
weve been cooking for thousands of years? I would think that has made our bodys not used to raw meat. Maybe before we started cooking our food we ate it raw just fine, I would think we were eating meat raw before fire came along. Why would early man cook his meat? what started that hole craze? so many questions.
Hi Tex~
Here ya go!
http://www.karlloren.com/human-raw-meat-diet.htm
And don't go throwing up on me huh :chuck:
Three basic reasons I can think of:
1. Sterilisation
2. Preservation
3. Tenderisation
4.Cannibalism... ;)Quote:
1. Sterilisation
2. Preservation
3. Tenderisation
I got drunk once, and ate a heap of raw hamburger patty's, needless to say the next day i had a severe case of food poisoning.
Not good when you got an important interview to attend.
Hi there Texan I am thinking maybe cause of food poisoning ??
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[1] Taboo Food And Drink
I'll take an order of Peruvian Guinea Pig with an order of "The Dragon and the Tiger" with a side order of "Smoked and salted horse meat on a sandwich. :p j.k.
couple of points
1. from what i understand, humans started cooking (actually "smoking") meat for the purpose of preservation, not for it to taste better
2. i eat "tartar steak" (the Czech version) which is basically a raw beef w/ spices
3. WHO DOESN'T LOVE SUSHI
sushi sucks arse. Give me a piece of charred deer flesh anyday.
Eating the animal flesh, blood, bones and all would deprive us of such wonderful things as -
bone handle knives
blood pudding, boudin, and blood sausage.
erm..did I say bone handle knives?
Animals v. Humans? We'd whip their butts, every time - we've got the guns.
On the serious side to answer your question - it's easy really:
Critters have different bacteriae in their systems which permit digestion of certain biological parts which humans do not. Dogs can digest bone but not easily and only when taken in very small chips. Snakes, however, cannot - ask any rat skeleton that's been found in snake feces. Humans can't digest bone - even when ground to the finest powder it shows up in our 'leavings'...but we *can* digest marrow and all things muscular and blood related.
Other semi-serious reasons why we humans eat our food (mostly) cooked where the critters eat it raw:
1. They can't cook.
2. They've got other specialized bacteriae in their systems which preven them from becoming ill when eating rotten tissues - this varies in intensity from critter to critter, but they've all got it and we don't. (probably because we've eaten our stuff cooked for so long...)
3. Critters *will* eat cooked food. Ask any dog begging at your feet for dinner leftovers, or cat when you're opening a can of processed, cooked chicken or tuna.
4. Raw stuff just doesn't taste as good to us as it does to them. My cats eat in this order of preference - Fresh caught living fish, food from a can, dried cat food, things other than fresh fish they kill themselves, found dead things. Dont' ask me why they like those flopping little fishies best, but hey - I do too just because I know they're going in a frying pan soon. Try it yourself - offer a fresh caught channel-catfish to a cat and watch it go berserk tearing into it....
and finally, 5. Critters can eat stuff humans cannot - Those little red berries on the bush outside your grandma's house which are deadly poison to humans but the birds feast upon them (and leave red turds all over your car - oops, I reminisce a bit too much. ah well, you get the gist).
[edit]sorry bout all the typos - the game's on and I'm 10 beers into it already... Too bad Dallas is on its bye week...ah well.[/edit]
thanx for all the links and info yall.
You can survive on raw meat and humans and ancestors did for a long time but it's easier to digest cooked meat. That saves energy on digestion and in "survival of the fittest" situations saving energy means more spare energy to breed. + the other mentioned benefits less risk of poisoning, more things to eat and it tastes better.
The Texan: most animals are at the same risks to acatchthe nasty parisites in the raw meat as humans are. If lions had oposable thumbs and new about parasites they would cook their meat.
We can eat raw meat you jsut better be real sure about the source, tape worm, hok worm, pin worms, all live in meat cookign kills the parasites.
in my country there are some kind of meat that can be eaten raw, and some can only be eaten raw!
i think cooking would make things healthier and more tasty and delicious to eat, and we are human, we want to enjoy and taste and live not only survive
and god gave us(human) the ability to cook unlike animals, and we pretty much used it in a good,even artistic way.
and as women used to cook, i think it was a way man created to keep those creatures busy :P for some time... but things aren't pretty much the same nowadays..are they ?
rofl :)Quote:
Other semi-serious reasons why we humans eat our food (mostly) cooked where the critters eat it raw:
1. They can't cook.
backing to the topic. Texan: you can survice eating just uncooked food. One of the most popular "courses" here at Brasil Army is "Amazon Surviving Training", where you (a a soldier, not for civilians) are dropped from a place in the middle of rain forest and need to survice 2 weeks just eating what nature give to you - no fire (its hard to start a fire there anyway), no cook. And not a lot of fruits too. You must hunt, eat uncooked meat - and drink blood too (i forgot why - its something related to minerals and salt but im not sure). Argh....
As someone else stated, each critter has its own defense system against "bad food", mankind included. Our current problem is that we just forget what is good and what kills you. Its so better get food on the market....
And that's a popular course!!:eek:
Life in the Brasil army must be waay tough :chuck:
I stand corrected here but if i am not mistaken if you ran out of water like in the desert for instance, your own urine is one of the!!most important things to preserve.It is drinkable and I think it contains minerals and salts definitely..Quote:
Originally posted here by cacosapo
rofl :)
You must hunt, eat uncooked meat - and drink blood too (i forgot why - its something related to minerals and salt but im not sure).
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Article480.html
thats an article about drinking your own urine, van. apparently your right its not TOTALLY harmful but pretty gross i would say.
Desperate times calls for desperate measures:DQuote:
Originally posted here by The Texan
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Article480.html
apparently your right its not TOTALLY harmful but pretty gross i would say.
Here's something y'all seem to have missed...
Think about it... when an animal hunts and kills something... it's fresh... is the meat you eat that fresh?