How can carnivores survive?

I've eaten a bit of raw food myself.

My favourite food in the world is raw fish. You're only sopposed to make Sashimi from sea fist as fresh water fish carry parasites that can harm your liver. Raw fish tastes better but only for a few hours when it's really fresh.

Raw prawns are eaten all over SE Asia and also taste better for a the first few hours.

Japanese all have a raw beef Sashimi. They sear the outside of a steak for a few second on a ferocious heat so the outside blackens but the inside stays raw, this seals the juices in. they then cut it into wafer thin slices, so it's no problem to eat. Only trouble is, it tastes terrible.

Thais eat raw pork. They mince it so it's no trouble to chew and then cure it with heaps of fresh chilli to kill the germs. It's so good I've smuggled bags of it through customs back home.

On the whole from my experince chewing raw meat isn't a problem, neither does it taste better. It's a freshness issues. Human history, salting meat, freezing it, drying it and putting sauces on it is all about prolonging the life of it and cooking it is a way of doing that.

Originally posted by Cywr IIRC, people can still handle raw meat, indeed it is a delicacy in some countries. It has to be super-duper fresh though. I think cooking the meat was just the first step in the development of food processing, though i'm nt sure what pre-historic humans would make of Golden Wonder's Pot Noodles

Actually the first step in food processing would have been cutting the meat off bone or chopping the dead thing up.

technically speaking

input = dead animal

process = what is done to it; be it cut; skewer; or cook

output = food