can humans eat raw flesh without getting ill...............?

Question

dont worry im not planning to go all Hannibal Lecter on you all but it seems it mustve been a bit ch for cavemen to eat meat.

no ovens or tescos or drivethroughs. its hard enough to catch your dinner let alone prepare into a nice meal especially with the intelligence of a caveman.

SO can we eat raw flesh without getting ill?
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Answer 1

Sure. People eat sushi, and rare steaks, all of the time.

Answer 2

The main advantage of cooking is that it kills bacteria and begins the breakdown of meat to make it more digestable.

Fresh meat is "safe" to eat if the source of the meat had no diseases when it was alive. Most of the time that is the case, but often enough it is not. For a caveman/ape it may be a safe bet to eat some raw flesh, the advantages of the protein source are bigger than the risk of sickness, especially if one only expects to live to age 25 or so.

The question is how ill and what chance of getting ill. Most of the time it will be safe (depending on the meat). But are you willing to get sick every 10th time you eat some meat? Probably not even every 100th or 1000th. Food safety laws in the USA try to make it so that not even 1 in a million people get sick from eating a food, when everything is working properly. Cavemen were a lot less picky.

Answer 3

As long as it's the right kind of flesh, yes. Chicken and pork (in particular when raised away from modern farms where cleanliness is key) can cause problems, as they carry bacteria that can be harmful to humans. There are also a few types of fish (blowfish?) that can carry toxins through the human digestive system.

However, we all carry different bacteria around with us, on a regular basis...You may know that they say don't drink the water in Mexico...but the Mexican drink it, because they're already carrying these bacteria around with them, and it doesn't bug them. I would assume that it was much the same with cavemen...they were probably much more immune to these harmful bacteria than we would be, since they were exposed to it more often, and at a very young age.

Answer 4

Raw fish is fine depending on its source. First, it should never smelly fishy. Secondly any time a "raw" product is eaten you are taking a risk of a parasitic infection, especially if the species you are consuming is from freshwater. Saltwater species have few parasites on average. Hence, sashimi usually being of an oceanic source. I would never consume freshwater species raw regardless of freshness. Having a parasitic worm can not possibly be enjoyable.

As far as beef, never eat raw meat. Steaks may be raw in the center as long as the surface has reached 165F. That is until E. coli can grow anaerobically. If you love raw hamburger you need to prepare it in your home using HIGH quality beef.

Answer 5

You can eat raw flesh, and you can get sick. But it depends on the temperature of the atmoshpere. The warmer, the less risk of getting ill. Also, meat now adays has different nutrients and things then it used to have in the "caveman days". The best kind is the kind that is monitored-not factory grown. But I still wouldn't suggest it.

Answer 6

raw food lead to high susceptiblity to bacteria and different parasites
Raw food diets have been criticized in the mainstream medical community as being too harsh and restrictive. Critics of the raw vegan diet argue that it requires special care to include the recommended amounts of several important vitamins and nutrients, including vitamin B-12 and protein
They say that any restrictive diet can lead to nutritional deficiency, if adopted for an extended period of time without special attention to essential nutrient
A 2005 study has shown that a raw food vegetarian diet is associated with a lower bone density. This may not be a problem however, as new research appears to indicate that high bone density early in life is associated with osteoporosis, regardless of genetic variation
One study of raw vegan shows amenorrhea and underweightness in women,another one increased risk of dental erosion

Answer 7

Your appendix is an organ which is believed was beneficial when eating raw meat and since few people today eat meat that way it often needs to be removed when it becomes infected. You could eat raw meat without any ill effects if it was radiated but that wouldn't apply to your cave man question.

Answer 8

Generally humans' body is quite adaptable to its natural habitat. So for example, if they continue eating uncooked meals day in day out, a day will come when their body will adapt to this kind of food and the body will digest it without any side effects!!

Haven't you noticed that when we go on holidays, we tend to become ill quickly when we drink water/milk in a foreign country like Turkey but the locals don't!! This is because, our body isn't used to dealing with bacterias that are prevalent in water/milk in these countries but their body can deal with them quite easily.

Hope this helps and if it turns you on then vote for it!!

Answer 9

Yes. At first eating raw meat will cause illness because the body is not used to it but after several weeks,. or months, raw meat will not cause illness. I would not recomend it though, as one could die before the body gets used to it.

Answer 10

Cavemen had fire and did cook. If they ate raw meat with pathogens, they got sick. Their immune systems cured it, or they died.
We are the descendents of some healthy immune systems.

Answer 11

Sorry I have lived in many parts of the world and I found the most thing I eat only what is well done.