[quote=“Hyena Grin, post:11, topic:4421”]As already mentioned, raw meat isn’t poisonous, it’s bacteria that grows in cultures on contaminated food. Animals don’t have this bacteria in their meat (though if you butcher an animal incorrectly you can contaminate the meat from the bowels and stomach).
Parasites… no.
For one, most parasites you wouldn’t even register having. With very serious exceptions, for the most part they are not exactly the most exciting thing to introduce as a system. Most of the really scary parasites don’t come from food. The ones that come from under/uncooked meat are more or less just irritants that a suspected majority (some estimate as much as 90% of people) in the US already live with parasites without realizing it, because the symptoms are relatively minor and can be mistaken for other things and are often ignored or treated independent of the parasitic infestation.
Unless you have recently been treated for parasites, you probably have parasites right now.
I think my favorite parasite is the very rare brain-eating amoeba parasite. It’s not strictly a parasite in that parasites generally by definition have a parasitic stage in the life cycle and cannot (normally) survive without going through this stage. But there’s a type of amoeba that lives in warm water (and can be found in the Southeastern United States), and if through pure bad luck it gets up your nose and finds its way to your brain - not something it is actively trying to do, but it can get there nonetheless - it will eat your brain. It will eat it until you die. And there is literally nothing that we know of that can stop it. Experimental drug trials have failed to stop the thing from eating your brain. It does not naturally want to eat brains, it just will. Y’know. If there’s some nearby.
Nature is awesome.[/quote]
