Humans can eat raw meat and do. Tartare, sushi, uncooked shellfish, blue rare, and so on is all raw, though not necessarily common because of disease caused by unsafe handling of the meats and the potential for eating live parasites from when the animal was alive.

A secondary reason for cooking meat is that it'll be more nutritious from the heat making the nutrients more accessible for the human body's digestive system.

Also, just for the record animals that do eat raw meat can get sick from it and/ or acquire parasites just the same as humans. Most people who have pets (particularly dogs that'll eat anything) for a long time experience this at some point.

> Eating meat is not natural. Humans are not predators.

Um, you are completely off base.

Current evidence seems to indicate that, in fact, many of our evolutionary changes from the great apes were all about hunting via endurance. Effectively we evolved to simply chase prey until it collapsed.

So, not only is eating meat natural, and not only are we predators. But, we are the implacable Terminator of the animal world.

Have you heard about tartare steak? It's really popular in Central Europe.

Our teeth certainly support it. There's a difference between eating exclusively meat, and eating some meat.

The two other comments underneath this one (at the time of my writing) both state something along the lines of "of course humans can digest raw meat, because there are raw meat dishes". This is reasoning is flawed. You can eat a lot of things that you can't digest.

I also believe, though, that we can and do digest raw meat. But I have no specific knowledge about that (and this is not a request to get spammed with data, thanks).