YOu won't need convincing once you try. Your body will start convincing
itself.
You will crave raw meat. At my worst I was 117 lbs recovering from a vegan
diet. In 3months, I am 155 lbs and all of my symptoms are in the wind. I
don't know if it was the raw meat per se, but I know that I could a lot more
of it. I don't mix it with vegetable either.

-Eric

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Walsh [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 4:42 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Raw meat.


Hi All,

A number of messages have raised the issue of eating raw meat recently.

Although I have not yet tried fully raw meat, I am keen to try. I have made
the effort to aclimatise to much more "rare' cooking and find lightly cooked
meat seeping visible red blood tastes fine.

My main difficulties revolve around the years of modern culture training
that meat *must* be cooked to be *safe*.

I have seen some raw food web sites that seem a little weird to say the
least. I am not yet convinced that salmonella is good for us and food
poisoning is a "cleansing reaction"!

Intuitively, I accept that my ancestors must have eaten raw meat. Is it
*really* safe for me to do so today? (Bear in mind, I have severe heart
disease, I cannot afford to risk a decent attack of food poisoning. What
might be a nasty upset tummy for someone else, may very well kill me.) On
the other hand I have read reasonable arguments that cooking adversly
affects the good fats, and other nutrients in meat.

I want to give my body the *best* nutrition available so that it can do its
best to repair itself. If I can be truly confident that raw meat is safe, I
think it may provide better nutrition than cooked meat.

Of those that eat raw meat, how do you eat it - cold, straight out of the
refridgerator or warm? If you warm it, how? Help me out a bit here. What do
I need to know?

I need some guidance on my first raw meat steps. (And some convincing that I
*should* eat raw meat.)

Jim.