Why don't animals get sick eating red meat but humans do ?

Question

Wolves eat red meat all the time. So do other carnivores. Why doesn't this work with humans? Why do we have to process our food? ( Cooking, spicing etc.)

I meant raw meat.

Answer 1

Evolution. The carnivores have been eating meat for 10s of millions of years, but we started recently. And we had fire early on, so we don't need to evolve to eat raw meat.

Answer 2

Some culture do actually eat raw red meat as a delicacy. I've eaten it and not gotten sick, but it has to be top quality so you know it's free from parasites etc. Also, as others have mentioned, we aren't as good at digesting meat as some animals. Plus we can cook which means that we don't need to be good at digesting raw meat because cooking makes food easier to digest. It also kills bad things. You also should realise that most people reading this don't tend to kill their food right before they eat it...wolves do. We need to preserve our meat using spices, fridges, etc. Wolves don't. And sometimes animals DO get sick and die from diseased or infected meat.

Answer 3

People don't get sick eating red meat, at least I sure don't. We would not do very well if that was all we ate. Red meat is very high in iron. It could be that too much might be hard on the vitamin E or some other iron toxicity effect. From a nutrition point of view, it should be only a part of a diet. Too much protein is hard on our kidneys. Some animals are probably adapted to processing more nitrogen waste through their kidneys.

Answer 4

We are not carnivores like wolves or other carnivores. We are humans and we are omnivores. We have ability to eat various kind of foods. But, to eat them and make them more favorable we cook and/or add spices.

All organisms although they are composed by same cemicals and biological substances have different methabolisms. When various kinds of foods and chemicals enter into our body and into other annimal's body, they are metabolized, they are modified starting from mouth, intestine wall enzymes, liver etc. After that proceses, if at least one of the by product is poisonous for body, let's say, when it interferes one of the important funtion in body we call its toxic for it.

Raw meat and cooked meat is mainly different in terms of proteins and vitamins. When you cook meat, you can structures of proteins, and even you can degrade many chemicals with hig dose of heat, even they may form or you may remove toxic effects of these substances in raw meat.

we process food because we have tongue to taste and think about its taste, where this taste come from...

Answer 5

We certainly can eat raw meat, without being ill, if it is freshly prepared. I have eaten Tartar meat, in
Denmark, and it was delicious but has to be really fresh. I would not order it in the Mid East or even in Mexico. Cook everything there to cut down on bacteria.

Answer 6

Not everyone gets sick eating red meat. If you have red meant absent from your diet, sometimes you stop producing the enzymes in your stomach required to break down red meat. This would result in you becoming ill. Animal in the wild tend to stick to the same type of diet. A lion in Africa would never become a vegetarian for Lent..............

Answer 7

animals who eat red meat.. have a digestive enzyme that enables them to digest the red meat... which I presume you meant "raw" and not get sick.....

meat really on its own doesn't have much "flavor".. .hence the spices..

and cooking takes care of any parasites that are hidden in the meat.. like tape worm.... or bacteria.. like ecoli.....

happy cooking.....

besides there needs to be something for all those Chefs to cook......

Answer 8

They have stronger enzymes in the gut and acid that kills the bacteria
we are more sensitive and need to kill the bacteria that is why our meat is cooked

Answer 9

Carnivores' hydrochloric acid is ten times stronger than human HCl.

Answer 10

Simple-because we have different enzymes to break down our foods than wolves and other mammals.