Why is raw fish ok but raw chicken evil?!


Question: It seems that you can eat fish raw just fine, and you can eat beef rare (and even raw if its a good enough cut) and yet you are always taught to have super conscientious hygiene around chicken.

Why is that? Is it to do with how the chicken is raise? How the meat is handled? Just some inherant quality of poultry?


Answers: It seems that you can eat fish raw just fine, and you can eat beef rare (and even raw if its a good enough cut) and yet you are always taught to have super conscientious hygiene around chicken.

Why is that? Is it to do with how the chicken is raise? How the meat is handled? Just some inherant quality of poultry?

Safe-handled fish are not affected by the same food-borne pathogens (biological vectors of disease) that many other meats are.

The three major ones are: Ecoli strain: O157:H7, Salmonella, and Staphylococcus aureus. The latter two will only give you GI tract issues (aka diarrhea, food poisoning), but ecoli O157:h7 is deadly in children and the elderly.

In short, poultry/beef's chemical composition allows for the growth of these harmful bacteria, whereas in fish, it doesn't except for outside contamination.

beacuse of e. coli and salmanela

I'd rather DIE than eat anything raw meatwise

Raw chicken contains dangerous pathogens like salmonella which are killed by the cooking process. Fish are not infected with those pathogens.

really i cant believe u dont know why u cant eat it raw :s
maybe u should try eating some and tell us what happes :)





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