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Modern people eat raw meat all the time
You can eat raw meat, and it is delicious. The problems come from the industrialization of farming - meat is often butchered in a setting where they assume the meat will be cooked, co-mingled with many other animals, and frozen delivered, unfrozen for display, etc. If you have a animal you know is healthy, and you butcher it yourself... you can eat the meat raw with little risk.
This is why ground beef must be cooked well done all the way through (the exposed surface area to the industrial process is all of the meat), while a good steak is OFTEN eaten Rare/Blue (or medium rare) (the inside of the steak can be rare because only the outside is exposed to the industrial process).
Human Stomach PH is on the same level as vultures, we CAN eat raw uncooked meat, and deal with lots of pathogens/bacteria... just not all of the pathogens and bacteria.