Alexander Hollins wrote:
But... your stomach acid dissolves it down. the genes from the meat
don't enter your body.
True, obviously. That's the whole point of digestion.
Wrangham makes this point in his discussion of the "raw food"
movements in the U.S. and Germany, which he thinks are misguided. He
shows that a vegetarian diet is fine, but whether you eat vegetables
or meat, you need to cook most of them, or you will suffer from malnutrition.
Another excellent book about food is by M. Harris, "Good to Eat:
Riddles of Food and Culture." As I recall Harris is an anthropologist
with a great deal of knowledge of biology, and Wrangham is a
biologist who knows a lot of anthropology.
- Jed
