>> How long do you really have to cook a steak in order to kill food
>> poisoning bacteria?  Also, fish?
>
. However I eat all of my meat totally uncooked when I
>am home ... I have been eating my meat this
>way for about four years. As far as I can tell I have not had any
>trouble with "food poisoning" bacteria. I usually buy 5 to 10 pounds at
>a time which takes me a couple of weeks to consume. This gives the
>bacteria lots of time to grow. I also eat my fish uncooked.

i am eating raw animals products on a daily basis for 2 years and on a
weekly basis for 9 years before that . and in a monthly basis from young
children to 2o years old. I have been vegetarian from 20 to 30 years old. I
am keeping meats for personal use as long as 2 months in my fridge . I have
access to only grass fed animals or wild . The few times i tried commercial
meats 1 st the taste was awfull raw , 2nd it doesn't age properly ,going
into a spoiling mode rapidly. 3 rd i get agitated at night.
 I ate my load of bacterias and feel better than ever.
Killing bacterias is the last thing that i want to do ( their role in the
nutrition and  functionning of organisms are essentials. I suspect ( and i
am not alone on that) the organised warfare against bacterias having a lot
to do with the epidemic of degeneratives diseases( i am one of those
degenerated being). Think of yourself as an ecosystem , a cooperative
society of monocellular and multicellular organisms.( there is more
bacterias in a human being than cells and even inside the cells the
mitochondrias are of a diferent genetic that the cell itself, a kind of
domesticated bacteria who got free rent in exchange of few essential
services)
So who am i ? who am i to decide who belong or not belong to me? the immune
system is there to regulate  all this little world not to wage war against
ennemies ( ennemy of who ?)
The health of an ecosystem depend on the harmonious cohabitation between its
components not from sorting out the bad guys from the good guys.
There is nothing you can do to protect yourself from the invasion of bad
guys( if this unscientific concept have a sens)  , if your inner ecosystem
have an ecological niche for them .
Nature is stubborn
here we have a surpopulation of grazing animals  ( deer and lambs) despite
that all the cougars have been killed many years ago and that we are an
island ,  the cougars ( the bad guys ) keep coming back. every year.
Sorry to go on and on but it is time to question this all idea of whitches
chase . The  medical exhorcists practices have to died. There is nobody or
nothing to fight against.  except against  one self.

There is more risk at  eating unproperly cooked meats than eating it raw .
Where does  the cases of food poisonning come from ?
Cooking all the way to charcoal might be the safest , ... but not very
nourishing.!

Apology to the author of the question who didn't deserve an answer like that
, ... I had to say it
.jean-claude