The Last Alaskans

[JoePa]

I suggest you watch a program called - Monsters Inside Me - if you can get it - it is usually on Animal Planet station - it tells real stories about people who ended up getting parasites from eating food that was not washed or cooked enough - a lot of the times it takes a long time to find out what was the matter with the person after seeing a number of different doctors - recently a North Korean soldier crossed into the South - he was shot but lived and taken to a hospital - the doctors found that he was filled with parasites - including a tape worm over 12 inches long - years ago my wife was preparing some pork chops for supper - she had a habit of scraping the meat with a knife before cooking it - after doing that she set the meat on a plate for awhile - then she noticed some white worms coming out of the meat - we called the health department and ended up meeting the agent at the store where we bought the meat - if we would have eaten that meat without first cooking it properly we could have easily got real sick - the agent told us that there is no guarantee that any meat or fish doesn't have parasites and the only thing to do is make sure you cook it at a high enough temperature - pork 170 degrees

[trimmer21]

Yup wild game should be cooked to at least medium. Wild game such as rabbit carry a variety of parasites including tapeworm that can be easily transferred to humans. Keep in mind farm raised animals for meat purpose are kept in a completely controlled environment for the most part and are dewormed via feed etc. And yes people do get parasites from raw fish such as sushi and personally know someone that has gotten very ill.

That would be pretty funny watching somebody skid their arse across the carpet.

[FAMABRAV]

Years ago I hunted with an Italian guy who would thinly slice a fresh killed goose breast and eat it raw. I remember saying to him “ are you nuts” he would say to me it was common in his culture and tasted great as he slurped it down. Gross.

[Northhunter]

Joe... the North Korean did indeed have parasites in his stomach, but the suspected culprit is raw vegetables fertilized with human waste. It's said that if you put a chop in coke it will cause white parasites to exit the meat. Except they are not worms at all. They are fat deposits.

[jaycee]

Joe... the North Korean did indeed have parasites in his stomach, but the suspected culprit is raw vegetables fertilized with human waste. It's said that if you put a chop in coke it will cause white parasites to exit the meat. Except they are not worms at all. They are fat deposits.

That happens quite often , you read about it in newspapers and hear it on the news, vegetables and fruits that come from south America and even from California, that's why they always advise to wash them before consuming.
I believe this would be the supposedly treated waste from sewage farms used on food crops where it is not to be used.

Have heard that often about coke bringing out the fat in meat .

[fish and hunt]

Having lived in an Inuit community in Canada's arctic for the last 6 years I can tell you that this is a common practice in the north, not just done for entertainment value. The Inuit slice the liver and kidneys out of freshly killed caribou then dip it in the stomach contents.

It does not look all that appealing and I have no interest in eating stomach contents. That being said I have tried the raw liver and it doesn't taste much different than cooked liver.

Traditionally, these practices served important purposes in survival. The high iron content in raw liver for instance, gives a huge amount of energy and even produces a warning effect throughout the body. You can imagine how this would help when hunting in minus temperatures. Fruit and vegetables were not very common in the arctic precontact; enter the stomach contents of caribou. By eating the partially digested stomach contents the Inuit gained access to vitamins and nutrients that they would not have been able to get. The fact that they are partially digested allowed the human body to more easily break down the vegetation.

I would also assume that having digestive systems that evolved over years of these dietary practices, the Inuit would be far more likely to have evolved resistance to many dangerous parasites. Perhaps they are better suited to this diet then those of us who descended from settlers and explorers. Maybe they are just consistent winners in the game of food Russian roulette...

[Fox]

The Meat Eater himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5HVjKgAnzc

[yellow dog]

BS, I can guarantee at some point he will get some type of parasite. Lots of factual information done by the University of Minnesota on wild game preparation and parasites including ecoli.

[Fenelon]

Roulette for sure. I took several pathology courses so I make damn sure I cook what I'm eating. I always tell my buddies who eat sushi to google anisakis before they dine again. Over 4000 cases per year in Japan alone and that's just the diagnosed portion of the population. Careful prep of the sushi meat does not protect you. Salt and pickling does nothing. Swedes Spaniards, and Dutch are crawling in nematodes from eating raw and fermented herring and anchovies. Permanent damage to the mucosal lining of your intestine with life long complications that mimic Chronn's and ulcerative bowel disease. No thanks!. Look at all the crippled Greenlanders and Alaskans who are screwed for life from eating undercooked or raw walrus meat. Trichinella larval cysts embedded in all their skeletal muscles for life. You get the option of going on high dose prednisone (slowly eats your skeleton away) and other roids for the rest of your life, just to be able to function and tolerate the pain. Cook it if you're eating at my house!!

[parkcity]

The Meat Eater himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I5HVjKgAnzc

haha yeah Steve is awesome but he also gave himself and his crew trichinosis soooo he's not perfect. i'm still going to crush sushi and rare red meat, those are risks i'm willing to take.