> >
> >I used the wrong word. I consider the dried liver powder to be a
food--not a
> >supplement. It's just a dried, lightly-cooked form of what I could get by
> >going to a meat market, buying liver, and cooking it (eating it raw would
be
> >out of the question because of potential food poisoning). It's not that
much
> >different (conceptually speaking) from eating beef jerky powdered in a
food
> >processor.
> >
> Wouldn't you be more likely to get food poisoning from a salad? Isn't
there
> more e.coli on salad than on meat? I have friends on the raw food list who
> eat raw meat all the time and do not get sick. The e. coli scares come
from
> COOKED meat, right?
Nope, the E.coli from animal species is not frinedly to us, eg serotypes 111
and 157 that give you serious illness. These are often from animal bowel.

E.coli like all bacteria will grow with time. Salads are usually eaten soon
after preparation. Cf meat may be brought home, refrigerated then thawed
then prepared and eaten. There are plenty of more opportunites for dirty
hands (faecal contamination) to contaminate the meat, and likely to be more
breeding time before it's on the plate.

I hope you washed your hands before you read this.


> Don't Jean Claude and others eat raw aged meat and raw fresh meat? Not a
> flame, just trying to understand the concern. I'm eating raw meat myself.
>
> My friend has eaten raw ground meat all her life without problem. Aren't
> there germs/bacteria all around us?

Yep, but how big a dose of bacteria, how virulent the germ ,and how
resistant the person are the factors in the equation. If your beef was
contaminated with cow E.coli you could end up quite sick. Prevention by
hygiene is the key. American food laws are probably good, but I wouldn't try
that trick in the  3rd world- that's how you get tapeworm. Beef tapeworm
only infects the bowel but pork will get into the liver lungs and brain
sometimes. Hence the very smart religious laws against eating pork. I
wouldn't eat pork in a poor country unless it was cooked to a crisp.

Ben Balzer
"The ideal diet for any animal is that which it eats in the wild. Humans are
no exception."
"Ask a dietitian how to lose weight and you'll be told to eat bread, corn,
soy, cereals etc.. Ask a farmer how to fatten an animal and you'll be told
to feed it bread, corn, soy, cereals etc. There is a discrepancy that needs
explanation."