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| Author | Topic: Parasites in raw meat |
| Tony 04-21-2003 04:40 PM | In the book We Want to Live by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, he says that parasites shouldn't be feared because they cause no harm to a healthy, raw meat eating person's body, and that they eat only bad cells in the body anyway, so they can also be helpful in a less healthy person. He says that only in a very unhealthy person they are bad because they would too aggressive for a preson with poor health. But here, I see that many people seem to believe that parasites are always pathogenic. So generally, are they good or bad? |
| Wai 04-25-2003 04:37 AM | parasites can be bad, but generally cannot elicit bad effects parasites are not like bacteria though whether your body can sufficiently eliminate bacteria, depends on the strength of your defense system, but it is not true that a perfectly healthy defense system can always fight off parasites Most parasites do not cause problems because their timing is not right (they may already have peaked, for example); and they simply get coughed up. But, a well-timed, healthy parasite can harm anybody. Luckily, the risk of ingesting harmful parasites is extremely small: check out the "Parasites" paragraph at this page: http://www.13.waisays.com/fish.htm Raw red tuna is safe, and you can also safely consume fresh raw farm raised salmon |
| engesongwok 04-27-2003 05:40 PM | Sweet water, does this mean fresh water? What about fish like tilapia? How about goldfish? or platys? I have heard of people eating live goldfish. Then again I have heard of people eating slugs, earthworms, cow bile... why? i am not sure. Slugs and earthworms were part of 'survival' training. I saw someone eat a large bowl of living worms on national t.v. He said they need to be sprayed with water so that they wriggle, and get rid of the dark lines inside. (fecal matter) They should be rinsed well before eating. Slugs...I don't know what they do for 'safe eating' |
| Wai 05-02-2003 07:44 AM | quote:yes quote:tilapia is not safe quote:well, at least they are highly nutritional (dont know about bile though; yuk)... |
| engesongwok 05-04-2003 04:58 PM | Any information about how to eat earthworms and slugs? (so as to taste the best, and have the least chance of getting parasites, bacteria etc...) |
| benzapp 05-04-2003 05:54 PM | quote:escargot (snails) are basically slugs with shells. I imagine the taste is quite similar. However, it seems escargot is always heavily seasoned with cream and butter added in large quantities... If it was good as is, that probably would not be the case. |
| moydodyr 05-05-2003 09:57 PM | How about other seafood? Like oysters, lobster, prawns, etc... any problems eating those raw? |
| Sanna 05-06-2003 07:57 AM | oysters contain far too much zinc |
| jay 05-06-2003 09:37 AM | If you eat organic (or other unsprayed) lettuce you probably have already eaten a slug. If you remove a slug from a lettuce you will probably have an unpleasant eating experience, not because of the taste which is very little but because it will stick very firmly to your teeth and be difficult to remove. a slug on a lettuce leaf in contrast is virtually undetectable and does not stick to the teeth even slightly. It is interesting that chimpanzees always wrap meat in a leaf before eating it and this is probably for the same reason. |
| Wai 05-08-2003 05:12 AM | that is very interesting indeed, thank you Jay! lobsters, prawns etc cannot be eaten raw safely; the risk of ingesting parasites and toxins from these is real if you really need to eat something else, i guess slugs and earthworms are safest, and easiest to get by, but i really have no info about whether / which ones / how to eat them and indeed, oysters contain megadoses zinc, which readily leads to acne (inducing skin-keratinocyte proliferation) |