can humans eat raw meat.

i heard you can but i don't know if its true or not.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_veganism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_foodism

edited 9th Jun '13 7:27:11 AM by werewolf

I think you want this link. >_>

thanks for the link.

Have you never heard of someone ordering their steak bloody?

Of course you can eat raw meat.

Yep. Raw foodists/"paleo" people are nuts though.

I dislike raw meat, but I can eat some veggies raw. The former is ironic since part of my ancestors, namely Tatars, introduced dishes to Poland which consist of raw meat.

I've tried bacon raw.

My dad eats raw and undercooked meat all the time.

ITT: barbarians

I can, I have done so, I am human. Some meats are actually tasty raw.

Isn't it very risky to eat raw meat,m though?

Salmonella? I hardly know ya!

Don't eat anything bird-shaped raw. Fish and cow are fine if they're done right.

Deer is fine raw.

Can humans eat raw meat?

Well, yeah. We used to do it for billions of years before we "invented" fire.

Indeed it can be dangerous. But as noted in my link, that's mainly due to the fact that grain fed livestock develop a large amount of E. coli, and because thousands of cows are packed together, and they are pumped full of antibiotics, ironically making deadly infections spread extremely easily, and since many many cows are mixed together indiscriminately for an average piece of meat, there's an even higher probability that one was infected. But yes, done properly it can be safe. Most is not though.

If I recall correctly, pork is unsafe when raw — or even simply pink. Wikipedia has more information, I believe; it appears that there are quiet a few things that raw pork can carry...

edited 9th Jun '13 9:00:09 AM by ArsThaumaturgis

Pork is also morally unsound if you're Jewish.

People with Paleo diets don't eat raw meat by definition

thread: yeah humans can, we have teeth. Now if it's safe or not, that's been discussed already, obviously.

Or Muslim, and I think a few other religions.

edited 9th Jun '13 9:24:55 AM by GlobsterAGoGo

Umm, no. There are absolutely paleo people who believe humans ate lots of raw meat. Paleo in general is not very historically accurate.

edited 9th Jun '13 9:44:42 AM by CassidyTheDevil

@Cassidy They weren't saying that they didn't they were saying not all of them did.

I am not touching the pork issue vis a vis religion. Mainly because I don't want to start any arguments.

Steak Tartare has been a thing for hundreds of years before it got that title. That's just raw meat, whether bovine or cervine, stuffed between the saddle and the horse of the particular tribesmen who was a bit hungry, and allowed to tenderise by the movement between the saddle and the horse.

Also, most jerky recipes involve uncooked meat. Smoking ain't the same as cooking.

Also carpaccio.

Yeah, I do it all the time and I havent died yet.