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[–] state_electrician@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 1 year ago (5 children)

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.

[–] ripripripriprip@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Biomagnification is a thing, but people still eat tons of carnivores, like fish.

Eg for biomagnification is tuna has a high amount of mercury.

[–] geogle@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I've always heard from my biochemist buddies, you are what you eat plus 1 ‰ (per mil).

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] Overshoot2648@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People eat a lot of stuff when they are hungry that isn't healthy.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world -2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] WldFyre@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If we can't eat it raw then I'd argue we didn't evolve to eat it

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Zron@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Iirc it's the liver of carnivores you cannot eat. It has a really high Vitamin A content and can be toxic.

Edit it was Vitamin A

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypervitaminosis_A#:~:text=The%20liver%20of%20certain%20animals,toxic%20dose%20for%20a%20human.

[–] JustARaccoon@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

If I remember correctly they usually have more gamey meat