we didnt evolve the ability to digest meat. that's why we cook it you dingus
i know exactly what i'm talking about. we're anatomically herbivore but use technology (fire) to cook our food and maintain an omnivore diet. either way we're still herbivores on the inside, since we lack the necessary organs to properly digest meat without cooking it.
we can absolutely digest raw meat
(x). the reason we don't is because of a few reasons:
1) raw meat is risky, and can often carry pathogens that can damage our bodies. cooking food, in most cases, eliminates this concern.
2) cooking meat improves our ability to process and effectively absorb all the nutrients in food. this
does not mean we get no benefit from raw meat, we simply have figured out that cooking meat is greatly beneficial to our diets.
(x)3) like i said in my previous post, cooking meat and taking advantage of the benefits of this process is what allowed our brains to develop more complex structures, and paved way to our rise in intelligence.
it is objectively more beneficial and typically more pleasant for us to consume meat when it is not raw, but we can absolutely, undebatably process and get at least
something out of raw meat if we have to. lots of dishes involve eating meat that is either uncooked or minimally cooked
(x), and you better believe that, in the wild, we couldn't have survived if we could only benefit from food when it's cooked. i don't understand where this idea that food is only useful to us when we heat it up comes from.
and again, plants do not conveniently provide all the necessary proteins we need for survival
(x). this is fine these days, but in the wild, this is a practical concern because a large, sufficient variety of plants that provide all the proteins needed would not be readily available
