First I never said that.
The quote I used, which were not my words (that's why they are in italics),
said/implied eating raw meat the way carnivores like lions do can "make you sick and die".
Quotes are either offset (like the above) or within quotation marks (" "). Why would I assume that italics imply a quote, especially since you give no attribution to the quote?
Clearly eating undercooked meat has made people very sick and some have died.
In my mind that is not debate-able.
Eating *tainted* meat has made people "very sick and some have died" - just like it would make your hypothetical lion sick and possibly die. Most cooking or curing methods started out as a way of preserving meat for storage or travel. Fresh meat needs no preparation to eat. I know of absolutely no cases of someone eating fresh meat (like a lion would eat) and then getting sick and / or dying. Perhaps you can supply an example or two?
The point of the quote I used is clearly that unlike lions and alligators the human system
is not as well equipped to eat raw unprepared uncooked meat.
Some examples would be nice. Have you ever eaten beef jerky? Do you know that it is uncooked? It's only spiced and dried.
"Any particular preparation or recipe for jerky typically uses only one type of meat. Around the world, meat from domestic and wild animals are used to make jerky. Meats from domestic animals include beef, pork, goat and mutton or lamb. Wild animals including deer, elk, caribou, kudu, springbok, kangaroo, bison and moose are also used. Recently, other animals such as turkey, ostrich, salmon, alligator, tuna, emu and horse are also used.
"The meat must be dried quickly, to limit bacterial growth during the critical period where the meat is not yet dry. To do this, the meat is thinly sliced, or pressed thinly, in the case of ground meat.
The strips of meat are dried at low temperatures, to avoid cooking it, or overdrying it to the point where it is brittle."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerky_%28food%29#PreparationHave you ever eaten a bagel with lox on it? The salmon in lox is uncooked.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LoxIn Austria, bacon and some sausages are eaten raw, rather than cooked.
"Austrian cuisine has many different sausages, like "Frankfurter", "Debreziner" (named after Debrecen in Hungary), or "Burnwurst", "Blunzn" made out of pig-blood and "Gr?ne W?rstl" - green sausages.
Green means raw in this context ? the sausages are air dried and are consumed boiled. Bacon in Austria is called "Speck",
bacon can be smoked, raw, salted, spiced etc. Bacon is used in many traditional recipes as a salty spice. Vanillerostbraten is a beef dish prepared with lots of garlic."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_cuisine#MeatBTW, alligators generally do not eat fresh meat; they kill their prey and then hide them, waiting a few weeks for bacteria to break down the meat before coming back to eat. They're more likely to do this with larger prey, because the rotting makes it easier to tear up the flesh (they do not have incisors for cutting flesh).
