A Reason Humans May Cook Their Food

I've read a little further into "The Omnivore's Dilemma" (by Michael Pollan) and I found this little snippet on page 264 of the hardback edition: "One of the reasons we cook meat (besides making it tastier and easier to digest) is to civilize, or sublimate, what is at bottom a fairly brutal transaction between animals. The anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss described the work of civilization as the process of transforming the raw into the cooked -- nature into culture."

Rather interesting stuff, don't you think?
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