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[Dagoth Nereviar]

Can we drink animal blood? If we boiled it or something, would it still be bad? Or is animal blood why we can't eat raw meat? And how come we can't eat raw meat anymore? I'm guessing at one point in time, we did eat it raw without cooking it, so what's changed? Could we slowly ween ourselves back onto it or something?


Sorry for the 21 questions And if you're wondering, this came about while I was watching Ray Mears (The survival legend xD) and it was one about some guy walking across the desert, meeting a caravaner....But I was just wondering, if you had a camal with you, could you use it for both food and water, if you could drink its blood?

[t3jem]

As for the safe to drink the blood part, i'm not sure about the implications for that; however, the eating raw meat, you cook it just to get rid of potentially unsafe bacteria/diseases so you could eat the raw meat of a perfectly healthy animal and be fine, of course, it probably wouldn't taste as good without ketchup .

[Dagoth Nereviar]

Ahhhhhh...so it's the bacteria/diseases that are bad....hmm...well, what about with like chicken and stuff? You're not meant to eat pink chicken, coz you can get real bad s***s...I mean runs...

[truefusion]

It's not just the blood that can contain deadly diseases. But i have a question for you: Why in the world would you want to drink animal blood? Also, i wouldn't be suprised if you barfed up the blood while dirinking it. And if you want something raw to eat, go eat sushi.

[Tetraca]

In Poland there is a soup which is made from duck blood which tastes rather good. You can drink the blood of an animal (well, eat if you really want to be smart), but like all products from an animal you should purchase something which is deemed 'safe', and be sure to cook it well. You might want to look at a recipe for the soup to see how the blood is prepared. The Vietnamese also have a blood-based food, which is called Tiết canh, which is made with raw duck blood rather than cooked blood like the Polish dish.

Edited by Tetraca, 06 October 2007 - 02:07 AM.

[Carson]

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And how come we can't eat raw meat anymore? I'm guessing at one point in time, we did eat it raw without cooking it, so what's changed?

According to my Bio teacher, humans constantly have mutations. Most are not serious, and we dont even notice them. He says that every human has at least 46 mutations, but are so minor that you would not notice them.

I heard on the news not long ago about how half the population have back molars(those are the teeth at the back of your mouth), and half the population do. This is a mutations, and according to natural selection, will continue to spread in humans, and eventually they will be gone permanently. Another example is with milk. Apparently all adults could not drink milk, but they could as babies. They were all lactose intolerant. There were a few exceptions, and some adults could drink milk. This was a mutation, and spread. And now most adults can drink milk. I think most people in Asian and Africa are still lactose intolerant? Thats what I was told.

I think this is much the same with eating raw meat. It was a mutation that spread in humans. So there will be humans that can eat raw meat, and some that cannot. Although you would have to argue which is the mutation... whichever one came first, but we dont really know because it happens over such a long period of time.

[csp4.0]

well if you drink it won't you get hepatitis or something?
but there is a food called 'pork blood' well the name says it all its pork blood, they put pork blood in a container and boil it, it tastes quite nice actually, but it does contain a health risk and because I amd now a christian I am strongly against eating/drinking blood.

[jesselrebello]

Of course you can drink animal blood. After all it is just food.
Even when you drink your own blood it will be digested just like any other food.

[shadowx]

As noted the only reason you shouldnt eat raw blood or meat is because of bacteria, chicken is very risky as chickens can catch/carry very bad bacteria, thats why chicken eggs are vaccinated.

I think we can ween ourselves onto raw food, ive seen several survival programs where they drink blood straight from the animals body and also eat the organs such as the liver raw. If we wanted to eat raw meats i think we would need to slowly introduce clean raw meat in very small doses so our body can make a defense against the small amounts of bacteria so that we can eventually eat more and more raw products. Im sure i saw a TV show about someone who only ate raw meat.. or maybe i read it on the internet, maybe even on this forum

[Dagoth Nereviar]

Thank you all for your replies Big reply coming up

truefusion, on Oct 6 2007, 02:28 AM, said:

It's not just the blood that can contain deadly diseases. But i have a question for you: Why in the world would you want to drink animal blood? Also, i wouldn't be suprised if you barfed up the blood while dirinking it. And if you want something raw to eat, go eat sushi.

I was watching Ray Mears and I was just wondering, if you could find an animal but not water (Say you was in the desert with a camal I dunno ) could you use it for both food and water, thus not need to find water/live longer

Tetraca, on Oct 6 2007, 03:07 AM, said:

In Poland there is a soup which is made from duck blood which tastes rather good. You can drink the blood of an animal (well, eat if you really want to be smart), but like all products from an animal you should purchase something which is deemed 'safe', and be sure to cook it well. You might want to look at a recipe for the soup to see how the blood is prepared. The Vietnamese also have a blood-based food, which is called Tiết canh, which is made with raw duck blood rather than cooked blood like the Polish dish.

Hahaha, cool! Thank you for the reply, but I don't think I'll actually be making a blood dish..I'm not too good with cooking chicken, so with cooking blood, I'd be terrible...although, I guess it can't be hard to get it right, it's raw blood

Carson, on Oct 6 2007, 07:18 AM, said:

According to my Bio teacher, humans constantly have mutations. Most are not serious, and we dont even notice them. He says that every human has at least 46 mutations, but are so minor that you would not notice them.

I think this is much the same with eating raw meat. It was a mutation that spread in humans. So there will be humans that can eat raw meat, and some that cannot. Although you would have to argue which is the mutation... whichever one came first, but we dont really know because it happens over such a long period of time.

Yeah, I thought it would most likely be that we've "worked" our way off of it, since cooking is alot better.

Carson, on Oct 6 2007, 07:18 AM, said:

I heard on the news not long ago about how half the population have back molars(those are the teeth at the back of your mouth), and half the population do. This is a mutations, and according to natural selection, will continue to spread in humans, and eventually they will be gone permanently. Another example is with milk. Apparently all adults could not drink milk, but they could as babies. They were all lactose intolerant. There were a few exceptions, and some adults could drink milk. This was a mutation, and spread. And now most adults can drink milk. I think most people in Asian and Africa are still lactose intolerant? Thats what I was told.

Wow, I wasn't sure about the molars possibly becoming extinct. And I really wasn't aware that adults used to be lactose intolerant. So does that mean that it's only adults who will be lactose intolerant?

csp4.0, on Oct 6 2007, 08:45 AM, said:

well if you drink it won't you get hepatitis or something?
but there is a food called 'pork blood' well the name says it all its pork blood, they put pork blood in a container and boil it, it tastes quite nice actually, but it does contain a health risk and because I am now a christian I am strongly against eating/drinking blood.

I'm not sure, depends if the blood has hepatitis in it I guess Hmm...too bad you're not one of those weird people who drink blood and sacrifice small goats, eh? (Btw, not knocking christianity or sacrificing-small-goat-ianity)

jesselrebello, on Oct 6 2007, 10:13 AM, said:

Of course you can drink animal blood. After all it is just food.
Even when you drink your own blood it will be digested just like any other food.

Yeah, but your own blood is most probably clean, especially to yourself. Hmm.....I wonder if you could cut yourself and use yourself as a source of drink

shadowx, on Oct 6 2007, 01:23 PM, said:

As noted the only reason you shouldnt eat raw blood or meat is because of bacteria, chicken is very risky as chickens can catch/carry very bad bacteria, thats why chicken eggs are vaccinated.

Ahhh....Well, I guess you can't really clean raw meat/blood, coz then you'd have water Unless you boiled the blood/raw meat together...

shadowx, on Oct 6 2007, 01:23 PM, said:

I think we can ween ourselves onto raw food, ive seen several survival programs where they drink blood straight from the animals body and also eat the organs such as the liver raw. If we wanted to eat raw meats i think we would need to slowly introduce clean raw meat in very small doses so our body can make a defense against the small amounts of bacteria so that we can eventually eat more and more raw products. Im sure i saw a TV show about someone who only ate raw meat.. or maybe i read it on the internet, maybe even on this forum

Yeah, I thought if we slowly ate/drunk it, then we would eventually build up defenses against it. Those TV shows sound cool too Wish I'd of seen them


Once again, thank you all very much for your replies