To Your Health? Raw Meat/ Worth the Risk?

To most people eating raw meat is an invitation for food poisoning or Salmonella. Some are on a raw meat diet claiming that is the healthiest way to eat. Most of us have grown up avoiding raw meat, always seeing that it is cooked properly for fear of getting sick, washing everything it touches and our hands and it seems a real fear.
Now though, a new diet craze has popped up that encourages people to eat their meat raw. Celebrities including Demi Moore, Uma Thurman, Natalie Portman and Gordon Ramsay eat raw meat to lose weight and stay healthy with more energy. Being a raw meat eater usually includes eating only foods that is unprocessed, undomesticated, contain no chemicals or additives, and have not been subject to any genetic engineering. Your diet will be mainly organic fruit and vegetables, limited dairy products, organ meats, eggs, and then meats; raw, aged, fermented meat and fish.

Included in raw animal food diets are any food that can be eaten raw, such as uncooked, unprocessed meats, eggs, raw dairy, and aged, raw animal foods such as rotting meat, fish, shellfish, as well as vegetables, fruits, nuts, sprouts from many things, but no raw grains, raw beans, raw soy, etc., because of digestion.. Raw foods on such diets have not been heated at temperatures above 104 °F. Raw meat eaters believe that a food cooked above this temperature has lost most of its nutrition and will harm the body. Ones on this diet usually choose to get their meats from free ranging and grass fed animals, doing away with risks of damaging bacteria. Grass fed animals also contains more nutrients, like vitamins, minerals, and omega 3’s.

Well if you are interested in this there are many books on the market and I am sure much to find online. I am also sure anyone interested may not want to hear about my cats but it appeared important to me as I read about these raw meat eaters, and it could go either way proving this diet. I have never eaten raw meat, period but since they do studies on animals I can tell you of the experience of my cats with raw meat that may help you decide.

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All my life I have had cats and for many years only white ones and they only lived to be 4 or 5 and that seemed right to me, that like is kind of old in human years.Well it always had been around that age they were no more, although I try not to remember specifics of all their deaths I do remember their lives. Also I had white cats which I heard many years ago were prone to die younger, but the one thing I never heard mentioned and I noticed was, how rare it was for my cats to never have kittens, which was OK by me but in all of them and I had many. I think I got one litter. Also another strange thing was sometimes they seemed pregnant, that had the bellies get big and I would be sure I could feel movement but no, they never had them.

Well the last one before my Lilly I have now we took to the Vet because she was becoming huge and never having kittens and this was too weird, and we could tell not well. He said that she had indeed been pregnant but instead of having these babies they had turned to tumors and she got the death sentence so we just let him put her to sleep.

The one thing different in those white cats and my white Lilly is that after that I read do not feed your cats raw meat so I never did give Lilly any and all my other cats loved ground beef most of all although I am sure they may have had chicken parts I cut away etc, they just all loved ground beef and before I made it into patties they always got a good hand full. They lived 5 years at most and I am sure they all had those tumors looking back, thinking they were with kitten but they never had them.

They did all hunt and eat wild meat as did Lilly for many years but for the last couple of years I think she is past the chase although she still has her playful days.

So could it have been that processed hamburger with who knows what is in it (that even I no longer eat) and raw meat that man had messed with caused those cats problems and earlier death?

Has Lilly lived longer at sixteen now even with years living with her allergy problems still alive because she had no man handled processed meat even though she did eat quite a few little rabbits (that was her favorite) and a few birds?

So maybe that proves you can have raw meat if you follow all the right rules, even then I would have to raise my own not trusting claims of any kind but I think I will pass on that one, although I have eaten oysters nearly raw but hot so probably safe enough and of course I am for raw veggies.

Today is my smoothie and green tea making day. Surely that has to help. To each his own.