If humans are meant to eat meat then why cant they eat raw meat?

Your ignorance is astounding, your view on the topic is incredibly simplistic and your response shows that you didn't read my post at all. Please read the following with an open mind, and then research some of what I've said. You may learn something.

To reiterate - bacteria develops on meat once it's been stagnant and exposed to the open air (read - once the animal has been dead for a while). That's when salmonella can develop. Given that most of us buy from the supermarket or the standard butcher, a lot of the time the meat has to be cooked because it's been on the shelf for a day and had time to develop bacteria. However, buy it fresh, you can eat it raw. Again, it's common in some other countries to eat meat raw. One of my best friends is from an Italian family and they eat raw beef on a weekly basis. They visit a trusted butcher on his delivery day each week, the meat is fresh, they eat it raw. They're never ill. I've eaten it raw myself at their house one time and suffered no ill effect.

Eating raw meat is against social norms in this country, so people tend to find the behaviour shocking and in average circumstances, buying meat means you'll need to cook it. Yet, people eat their stakes "blue" or "rare" every day in the UK. It'd be considered undercooked by the standards of meats like chicken (which would indeed make you ill if undercooked), but again, it's beef, it carries less bacteria and if the meat is fresh, it won't make you ill. How do you take your stake, out of interest?
Yes, certain meats, i.e. chicken, should never be eaten raw due to their high bacterial content. However, with some meats, like certain types of fish and beef, you CAN eat it raw very safely. Most foods have expiries in which they are safe to eat, become a bit dodgy but you might get away with it, and then simply unsafe to eat - meat has a very short shelf life, that's all. Even so, beef has a longer shelf life than most other meats.

As a geology undergrad at Cambridge University I feel uniquely qualified to address your point. Humans do need to eat meat. It's what allowed human brains to expand and thus allowed us to increase our intelligence.

http://www.livescience.com/24875-meat-human-brain.html

You may not understand the article (due to you not eating meat and all) so it may be worth asking a meat eater to explain it to you.

FTW.

Attacking someone's intelligence is the surest sign that you're running out of ideas.

Once again, you haven't read my post properly so I will re-type it for the third time, in the vain hope that you'll read it: if you were starving, you'd prolly beg for one of those unhealthy stakes you were talking about. Why? Because as a species we evolved to eat whatever we could find. Berries? Sure. Nuts? Sure. Bananas? Sure. Deer? Sure.

Our bodies have numerous adaptations for persistence hunting, and if we were designed to be vegans we wouldn't have these adaptations. Look at your foot, for starters.

Once again: you can ear whatever you want and I will eat whatever I want. But trying to deny human nature is just ridiculous. We were built to eat anything so we have the luxury of choosing what to eat. Imagine being a panda, how boring.

PRSOM. Have you ever read born to run by chris mcdougall?

Please cut your dick off so you dont reproduce. Thank You.

Rubbish

PRSOM. Have you ever read born to run by chris mcdougall?

As a geology student from Cambridge University, my expertise suggests that there may be better, less harmful methods to prevent reproduction such as condoms. If you ate meat you would've had an increased brain capacity (as stated in the link i previously) and thus understood that.

Humans are also not meant to use the Internet but you're using it. Why are you?

........this literally does nothing to refute anything I've said. I'm clearly wasting my time here. I've given you both the science on a very basic level and practical examples and anecdotal evidence, you never seem to read the post... 6/10 troll tbf, you've elicited a good amount of genuine response, could have been higher but you look like a total fool in the process.

The majority of people get sick when eating raw meat as it isn't meant for them. Humans also dont have the teeth to chew through complete raw meat.

I am sorry but if you are arguing against facts then it is you who is the troll not me.

I am not attacking I was just stating the obvious. And again you cant handle the truth.
Creating hypothetical scenarios doesn't help you at all. I bet if you were stuck on a mountain with you and only a few other people and you were about to die from hunger, and one of the other people dies. you would eat their body to survive. What relevance do these scenarios have?

Humans were designed for hunting? seriously what a stupid argument- who designed us? Some skydaddy?

Yes you can eat whatever you want but dont come crying to us ehen you get all these diseases because of it you little child.

Imagine being stuck with you- how awful.

Do you eat raw steak, chicken, and fish?

I can confirm I have never gone into a field, killed a cow with my bare hands and taken a bite out of its body, but you can eat raw steak, I have done so many times, it tastes excellent with herbs and seasoning.
I'm not dead, deal with it

Ahhh yes I see you cant argue against the rational points on my post.

At the end of the day- Humans dont need to eat meat and anyone thats says so is an ignorant fool.

You said that, and I quote, "we lack a number of specific adaptations for that, the ability to digest cellulose for one" BUT WE NEED CELLULOSE ANYWAY.