Getting Used to Nature

[sir ice]

It seems that if you eat nothing but raw meat, you would adapt. So why don't you? once you eat raw meat for a while you should be able to eat it without problem, just like how you get better at lighting fires.

plz speak in the comments.

[Boss Llama]

You can't replace millions of years of evolution with a couple weeks of poor dietary choices, nor is there a way to develop meaningful resistance to E. coli, BTX, Lysteria, or any of many other dangerous bacteria and toxins. Many of these, if you get infected or hit with it once, you won't get a second chance - it will just kill you (you don't exactly have modern medicine out there in the wilderness).

Certainly you aren't going to catch something every time you eat raw meat, and there are some ways of eating it that could be safer than others, such as only eating it fresh from the kill, and never storing or saving any of it, but that's *relative* safety - not safe.

[Boston123]

If you want to get 100% technical about it: human beings are perfectly capable of eating raw meat. It is just over the last 200,000+ years, we haven't had to, so our bodies aren't used to it.

The "main" reason (asides from biological contamination) someone gets sick from eating raw/undercooked meat isn't incompatibility, but merely the body trying to digest an "unfamiliar" food, rather like how you might get sick from eating food from a different culture (different preparation, heavily spiced, etc). Your body essentially freaks out, goes "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS" and gets rid of it.

So long as you take LEAN (AKA with little to no fat on/in it), FRESH muscle meat, from an area not too close to the bone, you "should" be alright eating it raw, in small amounts. If it has been sitting around for a while, has a decent fat content, or comes from closer to the bone, cook it.

Hell, you are "supposed" to eat organ meats (liver, intestines, etc) as un-cooked as possible, if not outright raw, in order to get as many nutrients from them as possible.