At 08:17 AM 3/6/01 -0500, you wrote:
>On Mon, 5 Mar 2001 17:42:51 -0800, Ingrid Bauer <[log in to unmask]>
>wrote:
>
>>I would rather hear about the benefits of eating cooked meat than what it
>>is supposed to protect ourselves from.
>
>Cooked meat is more digestable than raw, allowing us to assimilate
>greater quantities of protein. BTW cooked meat is better for dogs
>(our companions in our evolution) as it is for humans.
>
>    http://www.mybluedog.com/rawmeat.html

You picked the one crack pot site on the net as your proof.  It's bull
(okay, so that was a pun!).  Dogs digest raw meat more quickly and
thoroughly than cooked.  Veggies, otoh, they can't really handle without
cooking/pureeing (or eating it out of an herbivore's stomach!).

Dianne