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.
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.
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.