I was going to ask you these two questions too, Jean Claude. > what about pork...do you eat it raw? > > someone said they "ripen" meat in the fridge....to me this is akin to > rotten...meat left in fridge after a while smells bad...to me anyway...in > ripening...does the meat not have a decomposed odor? > > Have you ever researched what strains of bacteria are most often found on "ripe" meat, and what role they play in the balance of our (human) intestinal flora? (Just curious. Having Crohn's, I have a tough time getting the good bugs to take up residence in my guts once again, but I have low stomach acid that doesn't do a good job of keeping out the bad bugs that often accompany the good bugs on raw stuff.) Lois