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[Indigenous man]

anyone eat raw meat? I exist mainly (99%) on meat and nothing else, and most of it is raw. Any other carnivores out there?

 

[BOD]

Hmmm.

An extreme carnivore. Don't see a lot of them.

So what do you have with your raw steaks, sweet breads and liver? A glass of blood?

For my part while I enjoy my sashimi and blue steaks, I think I'd be bored with a constant diet of meat.

I'd miss the mash potatoes and all those crunchy greens

 

[hanzo]

I love my sushi and sashimi, but meat I prefer medium rare. Seafood, fruits and vegetables are great raw to me. Meat, medium rare. Fowl, well done. Pork, well done, but very slight pink.

 

[Indigenous man]

Sweetbreads strange at first then moorish....honest! As for the blood and liver, well its difficult to obtain but highly nutritious albeit highly unsocial if you value your friends! (I,m just going to the toilet..glug glug chomp chomp)
Mans oldest food....I think I'm alone on this one!?

 

[BOD]

Sweetbreads strange at first then moorish....honest! As for the blood and liver, well its difficult to obtain but highly nutritious albeit highly unsocial if you value your friends! (I,m just going to the toilet..glug glug chomp chomp)
Mans oldest food....I think I'm alone on this one!?

Oh I don't know. I'd give raw blood a try as long as it did not come from a primate or a pig. Too much risk of a blood borne virus getting into me

 

[Indigenous man]

Could you enlarge on the blood borne virus risk? All the research I've done into the ancient human diet points to an almost total carnivore approach (we do have a very sensitive sweet tooth though so honey and rudimentary fruits would of been consumed from time to time} and as long as all flesh, blood and other parts entered the body via digestion then it was too important an energy source to ignore.
Once adapted to an exclusive meat diet not much would survive the intestine juices generated anyway, including metal if it took your fancy!
Hows Malaya at this time? July is wet windy here and has been for too long.....

 

[spamel]

Raw meat is still eaten by the Masai tribesmen. It was shown on the Bushcraft series and they drank the blood of a freshly killed goat. Also, a Sami drank reindeer blood on that Jack Dee programme, which was entertaining as well as hilarious!

 

[Dynamite Dan]

I sample it in small portions before cooking it,

Chicken, steak, saussages, bacon.

when i say small, im mean oxo cube sized.

I dont dislike it, but dont think i could eat a full steak raw.

 

[combatblade1]

Raw steak or fish is fine but i wouldnt dream of eating chicken or pork far to much risk of disease.

 

[Dynamite Dan]

i think the human immune system is stronger than what we give it credit for, never done me any harm, but im not saying you should do it.

 

[BOD]

Peninsular Malaya is hot and dry at the moment ID

My understanding is that while it would normally be okay their is some risk that a blood borne virus/ disease which infects primates could easily cross to a human from a primate if the flesh / body fluids were eaten raw. For instance if you had a mouth ulcer, tummy ulcer or just if the virus was hardy and adapted to primates.

Once its in you it only has to cross a couple of cells to enter your bloodstream

This is why i would never eat monkey brains from a living monkey quite apart from being squeamish about the thought

 

[Ketchup]

A raw meat only diet is a bit short on fibre, though. I suppose you spend half a day on the loo every forthight, Indigenous!

Then there are all the tapeworms, flukes and nematodes, abounding in your wild meat. Even herring is considered dangerous raw. Tha's why the Dutch now have to freeze their new herring. stomach perforation is quite common with raw fish eaters.

 

[dommyracer]

If I know where the meat comes from I'll happily eat if rare, but not a big fan of raw. It just tastes better when you cook it.