Cooking or not

[Bazile]

Why is it that you can eat meat uncooked ; but not poultry ?

[VorVZakone]

You shouldn't really, but chances of picking up disease are less. If you cook a steak on both sides, you have a decent chance of killing any nasty bugs, leaving an uncooked inside with limited chances of picking up a nasty. Try doing this with a chicken from Tescos, Asda, Morrisons: you have quite a reasonable chance (20 percent in some cases) of leaving salmonella living inside the chicken, which you then eat, with......unpleasant consequences.

[VorVZakone]

http://www.consumerreports.org/cro/food/food-s afety/chicken-safety/chicken-safety-1-07/overv iew/0107_chick_ov.htm

I'm going veggie. Yuk.

[lightbeing]

I eat raw chicken breast now and again, when I feel anemic. I freeze it and then defrost it in the microwave, before I eat it, as I find the microwaves kill off bacteria.

I studied microwave effects on a tardigrade colony, and found when exposed even to small amounts of radiation, it drastically affected the population and decreased their numbers.

I don't recommend eating raw meat to everybody, as some raw meats contain parasites, if they aren't properly stored etc.

However, raw chicken breast and raw lamb, I do like on the odd ocassion. I will pour vinegar and Worcesters sauce on them prior to eating them raw. I have never suffered any ill effects as a result, but I don't recommend this practice for everybody.

My nanny when I was younger told me that either during WW2, or when she was a young girl that the doctor told her to eat chunks of raw beef, as at the time, she was severely anemic. It was through her that I found out that it was common practice in her day to treat anemia.

She was born in 1903, so that gives you some clue. Also, her doctors would have been born or raised in the 1800's long before the ferrous pills came out. (iron pills).

She lived well into her 80's, before she was taken from a bout of pneumonia.

[beso]

Eating raw meat is dangerous. You can get brain parasites that cannot be cured. The incidence of these parasites in populations is proportional to the frequency the people eat raw meat.

[Robb Phoenix]

Raw meat????????!!!!!!!!!!! YUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Besides parasites like E.COLI,Salmonella,hookworms & tapeworm.Bird meat may give you the H5N1(bird flu virus) as well.
Wild carnivores have digestive systems that take care of some such problems, but humans do not.