It is generally safe to eat chili directly from the can without cooking it.

I have many times, and soup.

Don't know, but not sure why you'd want to

, you can safely eat canned chili without cooking it because the canning process fully cooks the chili, making it ready to eat straight from the can as long as the can is undamaged; however, most people prefer to warm it up for better taste and texture

anything in a can has already been cooked