Why ancient humans ate rotten meat on purpose?

the life expectancy of cavemen was 33 years so ill keep my refrigerator

Bullshit. Not on the facts but what they left out on purpose. The sheer decline in deaths and illness from food born diseases due to refrigeration and pasteurization.

The Flintstones had refrigerators and freezer.

For tens of thousands of years humans reguarly died from food born disease. We finally figure out how to prevent it. A hundred years later: Here's why rotten meat is good.

Cook the meat. Eat yogurt or cheese. Eat pickled vegetables. Have a nice day.

Another anaerobic bacteria is clostridium botulinum. It causes botulism. I would prefer cooked meat.

Bullshit. I’ve been on carnivore for 3 months and I’m in the best shape I’ve been in years.

I like where you are going with this. But I ate fermented shark in Iceland. It tastes like meat sautéed in bleach. It universally tastes terrible.

The Neanderthals told me this isn’t true. I don’t have a cartoon though so I guess my source isn’t as realistic.

Okay but how the fuck did they get over the smell there’s no fucking way. Fish heads in a jar IN THE SUN. Shut the fuck up.

Fat prevents rabbit starvation. Protein maxes at ~35-50% calories. Excess without fat overloads metabolism, causes diarrhea/dehydration/death. Fat provides usable energy + satiety. Organs cover micronutrients (fresh liver = vitamin C bomb).This is not theory. Documented survival for years/decades/generations. Pure lean = dead in weeks. Fatty fresh meat = viable long-term human fuel.

My dog does this with fresh meat. I used to give her a nice lump of meat, and she would bury that one and come back with a sticky rotten slab she had buried days or weeks earlier. Crocodiles must have got the same memo.

This is STUPID and PROPAGANDA!!! Humans THRIVE on FRESH meat!!! They will THRIVE if they ONLY eat that forever!!! It is ONLY if they choose to eat ONLY the LEAN meat with NO fat (hence why he kept saying LEAN MEAT)... if you eat the whole animal and eat the fat to... you will look and feal like HURCULESE!!!

No, I’m good. I’ll eat my fresh meat and die early.

There is some BS in this. Several of those examples were in areas of permafrost (frozen earth). That process would age the meat like a fine steak, not cause smelly decomposition. The other thing is that carnivore animals eat fresh meat when they can.

Agreed with other Carnivores - there may be advantages to fermented meat but no way fresh meet is the cause of IBD and autoimmune- I know first hand from almost dying to Ulcerative Colitis and being totally cured and reborn through an all fresh-meat and eggs diet.

Industrial meat isn’t fresh meat. Also, we aren’t eating the rot from the $200 aged steak. We are eating the fresh meat that was preserved on the inside.

this whole argument is survivorship bias.

@NXTGENMENTALITY The argument that humans did that to break down meat falls on its face when you talk about fermenting fish heads which have little to no meat.

A hole in the ground at 40F is the same thing as a fridge 😶

Makes sense with a large animal like a mammoth they would ferment the meat because there was no refrigeration. Fermentation provides lots of probiotics too. Gut health=overall health.

@gaiambassador17 you got a recipe for rotted mammoth?

“Dry-aged meat may have slightly higher nutrient concentration per ounce because it contains less water, but fresh meat is not nutritionally inferior in any major way. The biggest differences are flavor and tenderness, not health.”

Pretty sure they did this because preservatives and refrigeration didn't exist.

Lmfao that’s just totally false about surviving on meat only I know multiple people on the carnivore diet and they are absolutely thriving

Eating poorly cooked meat has always been an important social activity. In the original language, it was called "a barbecue." These social occasions began around the time of the invention of beer.

This dumbass video likes to make it sound like uncontrolled fermentation makes things taste as good as the Maillard reaction when in reality Kiviak, Hakarl, and everything else you try this with are well known to be foul tasting and a risk to your health.

This is a fantastic way to get blocked

Facts mixed with fiction and carnivores are proving it. Lean meat would leave to starvation so you eat fatty meat and btw way when beef and pork are processed they are hung and aged before processing them into cuts too. Fermenting is also beneficial but not the only way and likely not as safe especially with evolved microbiomes.

Thank the Rothschild's for prolly fucking this up for us too.

People also lived to the ripe old age of 30 back then. Stfu

If you get meat from a local source most times it is dry aged where it has hung for close to 30 days, makes the meat more flavorful and tender. 👍🏻. Very tasty. 😋

Most clear AI usage: This wasn’t X, this wasn’t Y, this way Z…

whenever they go talk about cavemen i find it an imagination. we cook food under sand, so it's method of cooking, just because some element of cooking gone, doesn't mean it's not same method.

Bro made a whole video of excuses on the day it's his turn to cook 😭