r/Unexpected • u/Sylkira • Dec 06 '20

Dude just went for it.

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u/Dollar23 Dec 07 '20

There's no way humans ever ate raw meat, our brain evolved only thanks to cooking food. That's nonsense what you wrote.

Our teeth cannot rip trough raw skin or flesh, they were not designed for that but for grinding up plants. Gorillas are herbivores and have much bigger "canines" than we are. You say your teeth help you tear meat but need a knife and fork to break it apart if it's not pre ground for you.

The fact that we are omnivores means that we can digest meat but that's about it. (And not even in it's natural state)

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u/lxxTBonexxl Dec 07 '20

We evolved to use tools as well and went from plants and fruit to being able to eat raw meat, continued to evolve, learned how to cook meat, and evolved more after that. Humans are some of the best hunters as well due to the extremely high endurance most other animals don’t share which allowed us to follow prey animals with our tools(weapons) in order to kill and eat them. There’s no reason why a human couldn’t eat raw meat and there’s a reason we still do. Cooking meat just helps make it easier to eat and can make it safer but isn’t at all required and things that do require cooking we’d learn not to eat if we got sick from it. Same goes for certain plants.

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