I mean, in the wild the primary hunting would be animals with fatty meats, right? So why digestion isn’t optimized?
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We’re not carnivores. Our digestive systems aren’t set up to digest large amounts of meat. We digest meat just fine if we get a little time to do it. But it is slower than digesting many other things. So if you stuff yourself with meat and then eat more things on top of that, you’ll get bloated simply because you’re filling yourself up faster than your digestive system can process.
An obligate carnivore, ie. an animal that evolved to eat nothing but meat, will digest meat a lot faster than we will.
Frankly, the problem isn’t so much with eating meat but the ridiculous portion sizes people eat these days. with live in such luxury that we glut ourselves every day. That’s causing a whole new set of problems.
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