http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=652632005

Apparently the latest diet fad is raw meat. Ugh!

All the raw foodists that I know don't eat meat. Many of them are raw vegans.

The idea of meat, cooked or not, is just disgusting to me.

yeah, that article makes it sound like raw foodists generally eat raw meat. :rolleyes:

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All I can say to that is that people have been eating steak tartare for generations...but it's still kind of disturbing!

Then again, I've never found sashimi disturbing, but I know that some people do...

-Qit

Even as an omni I've always found raw meat incredibly unappealing. :spew:

The one time in my life that I ever had steak I insisted on only eating from the edge because I wanted it burned to a crisp. How can people eat RAW MEAT??? :spew:

While I would not eat raw meat, it has much higher lifeforce via kirilian photography that well cooked meat does! I used to love mine medium rare which still has decent life energy according to the pictures I saw in David Wolfe's book Eating For Beauty. (he does not advise eating meat BTW)

I knew a raw foodie that ate raw buffalo meat. :spew:

I think he's veg*n now, though.

That article made it sound as if raw restaurants in the U.S. and raw actors and actresses all eat/serve raw meat. That's simply not true.

i do know raw foodists who are omnivores, lacto-vegetarians, lacto-ovo vegetarians, and strict vegetarians.

the article isn't accurate of course, since most raw foodists are vegetarians in some form or other. but, i think it's fair to say that some raw foodists may be omnivorous.

"All I can say to that is that people have been eating steak tartare for generations"
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and people have been getting ill for generations too ;-).

As far as 'steak tartare' is concerned , if it is made as basically not fully cooked store-bought ground hamburger then you are just asking for huge gastric illness and possible death in some cases!

If you bought a chunk of meat and cut off all the edges and then ground it and ate it soon afterwards I could possibly see something like this being not as dangerous (but how many people do that).

technically if it's a piece of meat and you cut off all the edges exposed to air then I can't see why someone who wanted to couldn't eat it raw. I mean the bacteria that grew on the exterior surface when exposed to air had been cut off.

Man why the heck am I giving advice about meat LOL .....this sounds so weird.

hahha ....in searching for steak tartare just to make sure I was right in remembering what it was , I found this;

http://www.luxuryweb.com/html/steak_tartare.html

"Today, health concerns in the United States, have made Steak Tartare a forbidden pleasure. In France, where we worry more about the taste of our food than the bacteria count in it, we take our chances daily. And we don’t seem to get any sicker than our cousins across the pond. It seems that the less we fret about the sanitation of our establishments and the food ingredients, the less we inundate our food with antibiotics, the more resistant to disease we become, perhaps because we build our own immunity instead of waiting for the producers to protect us from the dangers of real, natural eating. So here is a recipe for Steak Tartare, with raw meat and raw egg as some of the main ingredients."


of course their recipe didn't call for store-bought hamburger ;-) .... I laughed out loud when I read this (love to see the stats in France for food poisoning ;-) )

I used to love raw sushi. From what I've read, eating raw sushi carries a ton of health risks.

One of the first time I heard about people eating food now a days was on the radio about a guy called Wayne Green who eats raw vegetables and chicken saying he hardly ever gets colds since his pre raw diet. When I was an omni I hated it when there was a reddish substance was it blood? on undercooked chicken. I don't think raw meat such as chicken, beef, pork as healthy there is a higher chance of things like salmonella, trichinella, parasitic disease. As for weiners, canned meat okay as they are precooked.

I thought raw sushi was relatively safe as Japanese were eating it for years and are relatively healthy compared to North Americans. I think it must be Canadian/American sushi as our waters are more polluted and have more mercury.

Your posts are a bit anecdotal CarrotCake. As far as I'm concerned fish is safe to eat raw.

I forgot what it's called, "Primal something", but the idea has actually been around for a long time. People who follow the idea are rare, but do exist.

Your posts are a bit anecdotal CarrotCake. As far as I'm concerned fish is safe to eat raw.

Blanket statement from heck. Raw fish that has been raised in extremely clean water and assured free of parasites is "safe" to eat. (I was in the habit of eating raw fish at one time.)

Trout from the local pond or salmon off the shelf is best not eaten raw and could make one sick.

Your posts are a bit anecdotal CarrotCake. As far as I'm concerned fish is safe to eat raw.

Fish is NOT safe consumed raw. Any health care professional, traditional, or holistic will tell you that.

From StraightDope, an answer as to what can happen if you eat raw fish:

http://www.straightdope.com/classics/a2_060.html