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I always thought it was bad to eat meat from carnivores. No idea where I heard that, but I've always accepted it as truth.
Biomagnification is a thing, but people still eat tons of carnivores, like fish.
Eg for biomagnification is tuna has a high amount of mercury.
I've always heard from my biochemist buddies, you are what you eat plus 1 ‰ (per mil).
Early humans ate lions. Even pre-human ancestors since neanderthals did too and we share a common ancestor. So I guess it's okay to have carnivores as part of a varied diet of various meats and plants.
People eat a lot of stuff when they are hungry that isn't healthy.
But if we had been eating it since before we were human, we evolved to eat it. It was selected for.
I mean I wouldn't want anyone to eat a lion now, but that's a different story.
If we can't eat it raw then I'd argue we didn't evolve to eat it
Why? Hominids used fire to cook food long before Homo Sapiens evolved.
https://www.dw.com/en/evidence-of-cooking-780000-years-ago-rewrites-human-history/a-63812031
Edit: I think the issue a lot of people have with saying that we evolved to be able to do something means that we still have to do it. We evolved to eat meat. We can survive just fine on a plant-based diet now that we've domesticated the right crops, so it's no longer necessary. There hasn't been near enough time to evolve into herbivores, if that's the eventual path we go on, but we can be herbivores if we choose. Which is one of the amazing things about being human- we can defy evolution.
I don't think that applies in a broad sense if you include fish , but everything I know about bear meat says that you have to cook the shit out of it specifically to kill the many parasites that the bear'a immune system keeps at bay (but doesn't completely destroy) while it's alive. Eating rare bear meat is incredibly stupid.
Eating any rare wild game is stupid.
You’re eating a wild animal, you have no idea what it’s been eating, drinking, or rolling around in. Cook the hell out of it.
Last time I made elk, I slow cooked it for like 8 hours. It was fall apart tender, but it had been in boiling broth for many hours. You can make delicious meals with wild game, you just have to cook it right.
Iirc it's the liver of carnivores you cannot eat. It has a really high something (I wanna say iron?) content and can be toxic.
If I remember correctly they usually have more gamey meat
The reasons not to eat a carnivore are the exact same reasons not to eat an herbivore, just some of them more so. The higher the trophic level of your food, the more bioaccumulation. There is no rational reason to eat animals when bountiful alternatives exist.