Re:Argentina on Two Steaks a Day(2006)
by jerf on Monday November 16, 2015 @11:55AM
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"Yes, beef lovers (me included), it rots!"
If you think this is bad, you need to spend a lot more time learning about the incredible diverse array of things that humans ingest without any apparent problem. We eat lots of things that can be characterized as having "rotted": Cheese, beer, wine, which is then double-"rotted" into vinegar, in fact fermentation opens a whole door of its own. Plus with all the recent discoveries about the importance of gut bacteria, arguably half our digestive process could be called "rotting" the food.
Interestingly, in many cases the "rotted" foods are better for us than the raw. Among our many adaptations that allow us to carry around our enormous brains is the fact that we've offloaded non-trivial portions of our digestive systems to exterior systems via cooking and deliberate food treatments like fermentations. Eating carefully "rotted" food is arguably intrinsic to our species now.
If you think this is bad, you need to spend a lot more time learning about the incredible diverse array of things that humans ingest without any apparent problem. We eat lots of things that can be characterized as having "rotted": Cheese, beer, wine, which is then double-"rotted" into vinegar, in fact fermentation opens a whole door of its own. Plus with all the recent discoveries about the importance of gut bacteria, arguably half our digestive process could be called "rotting" the food.
Interestingly, in many cases the "rotted" foods are better for us than the raw. Among our many adaptations that allow us to carry around our enormous brains is the fact that we've offloaded non-trivial portions of our digestive systems to exterior systems via cooking and deliberate food treatments like fermentations. Eating carefully "rotted" food is arguably intrinsic to our species now.