This is something that always baffled me and seeing a video of a bear eating a salmon, it reminded me of this: The bear ate the salmon with it’s intestines, raw, no questions or care. Just bearing his own way through the salmon, barely a care in the world. And, like, I’ve seen videos of lions eating antelopes and zebra’s intestines also, and no issue there. Why? Would that work for all kinds of animals?
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While the other answers are correct I want to add that a lot of them aren’t eating feces. You don’t have feces in your intestines at large, only in your large intestine. Other parts of your digestive tract are much more devoid of bacteria. Not only that, a big misconception about things like this is that all bacteria in that are inherently bad. This isn’t true. You’re gut microbiome is a result of the gut microbiomes you’ve been exposed to, and it’s getting the wrong stuff in there that causes issues. Not only that but adding to the other answers your microbiomes protects you from other microbes. The e. coli in your gut helps fight off other strains of e. coli.
And finally. You do eat feces. A lot of stuff you eat will contain the intestinal contents of the animal you’re eating, and not just from a “of we ground up the intestines and some feces happened to get there” sort of way. Mostly this is limited to things like insects and smaller arthropods, but larger things are occasionally eaten while. When you do that you’re eating their guts, fecal matter and all. Some are cleaned first, shrimp you usually don’t eat it, you clean them to remove the vein, which is actually their gut. But some fish are preserved and eaten while. Guts intact.
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