I love meat. But the fact that we have to cook meat to eat it without getting sick is pretty compelling evidence that we did not evolve to eat it. Nature certainly had no way of knowing we would create fire and char the **** out of other animals and then eat them. As much as I love a good steak or juicy cheeseburger, eating large amounts of meat every day is not part of a healthy diet. There is absolutely nothing beneficial in meat or dairy products that you can't get from a fruit, vegetable or grain. Obesity related illness is the number one cause of death in North America, and it is 100% because of our diet. I say this after eating two BBQed cheeseburgers. They were fantastic. Now that's probably the most meat I'll eat in a sitting for a week or more.
I have to disagree, meat may not have evolved for us to eat it but there is a large body of evidence including the teath in our heads that says eating meat most definatley allowed us to evolve in to who we are today. It's would have been all most impossible for a gatherer type to get enough calories and protein to evolve such large brains. Farming which could provide enough nutrition came along because of our brains, not the other way around.
Cooking meat while not essential does make it more digestable and easier to eat and cooked meat played a part in our evolution. I doubt it took early man long to figure out that adding meat to the fire made it taste better and easier to eat.
Today we are FORCED to cook our meat because of the factory farms and industrial style houses of death that breed infections and bacteria. I have no such worries about the meat in my freezer