Would you eat something where particular handling precautions were applied?!
It just strikes me it cannot be an inherently safe food.
I'd pick up an apple off the ground from my orchard and just eat it. In fact, i regularly do that while driving past on the mower.
I'd happliy pull a carrot from our patch and rub the soil off them eat it.
Sure, many veggies should be cooked to make them more paletable, but i can't think of any one where I have to be concerned over such life threateners as e.coli
I just wonder whats so natural about food that needs such handling precautions as meat
Vegetarians and vegans, does it ever strike you in a similar way ?
This is not a dig at "meat-eaters" as people, just a question about "meat" as a food.
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It just strikes me it cannot be an inherently safe food.
I'd pick up an apple off the ground from my orchard and just eat it. In fact, i regularly do that while driving past on the mower.
I'd happliy pull a carrot from our patch and rub the soil off them eat it.
Sure, many veggies should be cooked to make them more paletable, but i can't think of any one where I have to be concerned over such life threateners as e.coli
I just wonder whats so natural about food that needs such handling precautions as meat
Vegetarians and vegans, does it ever strike you in a similar way ?
This is not a dig at "meat-eaters" as people, just a question about "meat" as a food.
When you think about it, something like an apple has a natural preservative quality to keep it from going bad immediatly so that animals will be more enticed to pick the fruit up and transport its seeds away from the parent plant. Meat has no such preservative qualities because it does not have to have them, from an evolutionary standpoint, a fruit or vegetable gains from enticing an animal to eat it and an animal obviously looses by enticing an animal to eat it so there is no need to have any natural preservative qualities.
Agree totally, shot some rabbits earlier and they will be in the pot tonight, pick blackberries etc and eat them straight away.
The world has just gone soft
Freshly clubbed Seal doesn't need much preparation - try that.
You obviously need to be reminded that vegetables can become infected with bacteria, viruses and other toxic substances.
Taco Bell recently had food a food poisoning outbreak because of their scallions.
Lettuce has been known to be infected with salmonella.
Anything living can become infected with pathogens.
But even if the risks are higher with animal products, I still think you have an underlying assumption problem. Just because meat can develop pathogens and should be handled properly, that doesn't mean it can't or shouldn't be eaten.
There are countless products that must be "handled appropriately" or else there is certain danger, (stoves, cars, oil heaters, planes, chain saws, etc. etc. etc.) and we still use them.
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yes i would, and do eat meat!
do you follow safety precautions when you are on your mower?
Hey dig this. You blocked me? Are you that soft? Now I know those claims against you are true and I take back what I said on our little happy thought sharing question the other day.
Blocking is lame dude, and obviously ineffective.
I don't know about you, but I handle pretty much everything (meat and veggies) with caution. The most recent outbreak of e coli in my area was caused by lettuce, not meat.
There are parasites and germs on the ground too...and animals poo on the ground...so I am not sure that eating off the ground is such a good plan either...
I agree with v for vendetta. It seems as the more antibiotics are becoming less effective it seems as if more cases of bacteria are popping up everywhere, from meat to veggies to who knows what else. I seen an episode the other day about how much bacteria the bottom of a woman's purse can carry. It was insane, this one lady picked up e coli at the park with her kids on the bottom of the purse and then went home and set the purse on the counter as she went about her chores.
Scary huh?
I don't pick veggies off the ground and eat them as the farm where I get the veggies use manure as fertilizer. I don't know about you but the thought of eating a food with manure on it seems risky to me. As for meat, we hunt deer all the time. The only special precaution we take in camp after butchering is to wash the meat then straight to the pan. I am quite sure that many vegetarians wash their veggies and fruits too before eating.