The sickest I've been in my life was after having chicken sashimi (from a specialty restaurant in Japan where they raise the chickens for the purpose, butcher them carefully, etc). I spent a bit over a week splitting time running between the bedroom and the bathroom; there were days where I could barely drag myself out of bed for the latter. And without getting too detailed, have you ever had a moment where you needed a bucket next to the toilet? Yeah.
It was pretty tasty, but I don't think it was delicious enough to justify the aftermath.
Ditto. Its called “campylobacter”. Ive gotten it twice. The second time was from undercooked yakitori at a food stall and I knew exactly what was coming on, so got the medicine right away.
Not hard when the average American eats 96-113lbs of chicken a year. That’s about 8 billion chickens… American eat more chicken than red meat, chicken is also a cheaper protein than red meat.
Or more likely an internet mob harassing the guy. Keeping his identity secret is a good move (although, why talk to a journalist because that signals you’re looking for publicity in some manner) but his decision to eat raw chicken is less wise (this is not Japan).
Even in Japan, it's discouraged by the food safety authorities. It's just not a great idea in any context; guaranteeing it salmonella free is a very tall order, and salmonella isn't even the only relevant pathogen.
But also, er, "poisoning yourself" seems like an unlikely trigger for an internet mob going after you?
Florida has the third largest population. They don't really have more insane people per capita than any other state, but they large population means they have a lot of them.
I was under the impression that the main reason for the "Florida Man" stereotype was that Florida police reports are public information whereas in other states they're more private. Therefore the number of crazy police reports circulating is much higher for Florida. Not sure how much truth there is to that.
Not saying he's cheating for clicks and I assume this is real. But unless you see him buying and unpackaging the chicken [I can't stomach watching this so I don't know if he does], he could _theoretically_ cook it at 130F for a few hours, which would have a texture very close to raw while being safe to eat.
This could be an interesting experiment (and dangerous for him) but he absolutely doesn’t say what the purpose is. I don’t quite understand why is doing that.
Illustrates that rules don't have to be absolute. Safety regulations are lowest-common-denominator, multiple failsafe type of things, designed to work for a population of millions. If you trust yourself and your supply chain, you can push past the normal limits.
Health and safety start blurring together at the edges. It's illegal to serve this to customers, or to buy raw milk, make maggot cheese, what have you.
He may have innate or adaptive immunity to salmonella already. I wonder how many dice rolls it would take to hit one of the antibiotic-resistant strains that are able to prevent immune system response.
Can some explain to me why eating raw meat was a thing considered to be done by hunter gatherers if it makes people really sick? This would have had to happen before age of discovery of fire/heat
it's unlikely to make you sick every time, but when it does make you sick, then it has the potential to make you very sick. Depending on which kind of meat/microbes+parasites, it can be fatal if you don't have access to antibiotics, etc. So most of the time they would be fine, but some of the time it would be a contributing factor to their shorter (compared to us) average life expectancy
When you look at animals that that do eat raw meat, it's super common for domestic animals (ie, those that live on farms, in zoos, etc) to have longer lifespans than their wild counterparts, in part because the meat they eat is less likely to have parasites and high-risk microbes than meat in the wild. So even when a given species is adapted to eat raw meat, it still comes with risks.
But beyond that, modern humans are less well adapted to eat raw meat than our hunter-gatherer ancestors. That's not to say we can't, we obviously can. But IIRC (I'm not an expert, I might be getting this wrong), the advent of cooking our food was like 1.5-2 Million years ago, more than enough time for us to have evolved changes to our digestion and parasite/microbe resistance that make it less safe for us to eat raw food.
And since cooking takes extra time and effort compared to eating food raw, presumably the reason that our ancestors bothered is because it conferred some advantage. One of the most likely advantages that could have been is that it made meat safer
While it isn't, unless the chicken is vaccinated (common in the EU, but not done in the US), it is likely to acquire it from its environment. Salmonella isn't just some product of dark infernal factory farms; it's an endemic bird disease and free range chickens are hardly immune (they may actually be _more_ exposed).
Modern farming is more sanitary than any previous time farming. Sanitary conditions are cheaper than having to destroy a thousands/millions of sick animals - you are not allowed to sell sick animals for meat and any disease in a barn will spread fast so modern farmers take bio security seriously.
TB didn't appear with factory farming, nor salmonella. It's about unsanitary farming, period. Poultry scratching through dirt won't be exactly sanitary, no matter how traditional we'd consider it.
You're also putting a lot of trust in the immune system of the animal you're eating. Sure most are fine but you'll eventually get one that is just naturally immunocompromised and when you do, you're in for a bad time no matter what kind of dreamy free-range life it led.
Louis Pasteur began experimenting with heat treating microorganisms in milk in the 1860s; if you have seriously compelling evidence that pasteurization is a conspiracy that spans the globe and has lasted for 160 years, then I'm prepared to be convinced, but otherwise I'm leaning in the direction that the reason that there are microbes in milk is because animals are covered in and filled with microbes
Salmonella is also common amongst wild birds. While some other pathogens are primarily a 'modern farming' problem, salmonella is not; there has never been a time when it's particularly safe to eat raw chicken.
(Actually, modern farming has cut down on salmonella a lot through vaccinating the chickens for it... but not in the US, so this guy is out of luck.)
This is the same as the "we don't need vaccines because nobody gets sick" argument. Eating chicken from a well controlled supply chain probably won't make you sick. Wow, such bravery.
It was pretty tasty, but I don't think it was delicious enough to justify the aftermath.