Carnivorous

is a physical defect that causes the player to gain no satiation from, and occasionally become ill from eating non-meat foods, and disallows them from using non-meat ingredients when cooking. In turn, however, the player can eat raw meat without becoming ill.

Despite what the description says, this defect allows the player to eat corpses at any hunger level, not raw meat. Normally, a player must be before they can bring themself to eat a raw corpse.

Advantages

 * Can be useful for those who do not intend to dip into cooking
 * Removes the need to clear an area and build a campfire in order to eat
 * Trivializes hunger and thirst, as eating any meat corpse will restore to Sated and Quenched
 * Makes it a bit easier to get the Eat an Entire Bear achievement

Disadvantages

 * Prevents the player from gaining access to many powerful Cooking effects. For example, the player cannot gain Psychometry by cooking
 * Causes the player to become ill for 2 hours when they eat non-meat foods, halting natural regeneration and making healing items half as effective

Trivia

 * Carnivorous replaced the Ravenous defect as part of the cooking and hunger rework.
 * Carnivorous was previously a 1-point physical mutation (not a defect), but was changed to a defect after the mutation balance overhaul (Patch 2.0.201.44)