Ellie,
Interesting that you have had no trouble eating raw chicken. I hope to
find a good source for chicken near me soon. I have simply been
avoiding it for nearly a year. Last summer there was a carcinogen
problem, then this February there was a bacterial issue. After I read
that article about bacterial problems (2/98), I again became afraid to
eat raw chicken, but, as do you I find rare or raw chicken very
delicious. I do not usually eat it with other people around either,
since just mentioning it elicits such negative responses. I remember
when I was very little, one of the things my mom used to do is let me
eat part of a chicken before it was thoroughly cooked, and that soon
became one of my favorite foods. Since then I always felt like cooked
chicken was too cooked.
Elnora Van Winkle wrote:
> I've been eating and enjoying raw chicken for several years. I get free
> range, no antibiotics etc. I suppose people who eat SAD might get sick
> if they tried it, but that would be a detox probably. I can't promise
> anyone they won't get a bacteria or parasite from any food if your body
> is still toxic or even if its not. I may have ingested bacteria and
> parasites from time to time, but I'm willing to take the risk for better
> health and raw chicken doesn't make me sick, as long as it tastes
> delicious. I have no trouble digesting raw animal food, and I chew it
> well so the enzymes in the meat start digesting it in my mouth.
>
> Chicken is delicious, especially the breast meat near the bone. ...
> ... Now I pick up the whole piece with my fingers
> and chew away just like my cat eats. What I don't do is eat it when
> anyone else is around.
> My best, Ellie
I actually tremendously enjoy almost all raw flesh foods I've had, more
than any other single type of food item. I get all kinds of raw fish,
and once in a while other items, and the fish I buy is usually not
farmed. But I am somewhat afraid about bacteria and poisons in
conventionally handled/raised livestock and also fish. Regarding
chicken, I have an article, relatively recent (from last year), about an
incident that horrified me, when there was apparently an accidental feed
contamination and then there was a big problem. In this case it was
dioxin (a potent cancer causing agent - causes cancer in ALL lab animals
that experiments have been done on) levels being so high in Tyson
chickens that they were yanked off the market and their chicken plants
closed down. So then I think to myself, if this can make it into a
grocery store, I have to be very careful.
http://wellnessplace.com/news/read/dioxin.htm
is the page I have on my site which has the two articles I read in the
paper last year about dioxin in chickens and catfish.
Also at
http://www.sej.org/sejournal/sej_su97.html#Study
has a little section on carcinogens in fish and chicken. (go to that
page and search for "chicken.")
Regards
roberta
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