system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELI5: Why are humans the only species of carnivores/omnivores that needs to heat raw meat before it's safe to consume?
gpt
For the most part we can eat raw meat too. We are the only species that saves are raw meat for days/weeks/months to eat later and that is what makes us have to cook it. 

We could eat raw meat assuming we eat the meat directly after the animal was killed. It is not the raw meat that is dangerous, it is what grows on the meat after it is dead.