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Neverminding the evidence to the contrary. (lemmy.world)
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[–] 15 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Dude what the fuck are you on about? Wild animals carry parasites and other harmful microorganisms that cooking removes. Are you seriously implying that modern farming is the reason we cook our food?

I know that capitalism is the boogeyman on lemmy and is the cause of all things bad, but this one really takes the cake.

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  • [–] -4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

    Why so aggressive? I realize my original comment was maybe not clear and lacked context because I honestly just typed it in a bit of a rush without thinking too hard about it, but that's no reason to put words in my mouth and attack me.

    Obviously, wild animals can carry parasites and we certainly started dying from food born illnesses much less often once we figured out to cook the meat, that's so basic I didn't even think my comment could be interpreted that way. But that has little to do with the topic (which was whether we can digest raw meat) and ignores the myriad of dishes that are made of raw meat like steak tartare, torisashi, charcuterie, carpaccio, sushi, poisson cru a la tahitienne, etc etc.

    The common theme of all these dishes is the meat is of high quality, butchered and prepared well (Vs minced meat full of cow shit because they don't bother butchering them properly, for example). That was my only point.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Your statement, "Even salmonella isn’t present in raw chicken [...]" implies that wild fowl--animals that don't have to worry about sanitary conditions in modern, industrial farming--would be safe to eat raw. Taking sushi and sashimi as another example, that's safe(-ish) only because they use ocean fish; there's no freshwater sushi because freshwater fish carry parasites that can infect humans, and so isn't safe, even from the most pristine lakes and streams in the world.

    I'd say that modern farming--when the best practices are used--is the reason we're able to eat things raw at all. When you look at feces from Romans up through late medieval Europeans, you see that most humans had all kinds of nasty intestinal parasites. (Also, a certain amount of parasitic infection seems to be good, because it keeps your autoimmune system from always being on ultra-high alert.)

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Yes that's fair, I can see how it was interpreted that way. The chicken example I had in mind was a specific one, and the chickens aren't wild at all just well cared for and extreme care is given to the preparation, I didn't have wild animals in mind at all which carry a whole bunch of other well known risks, only ones that are farmed in good conditions and used to prepare raw meat dishes every day across the globe.

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