Yes I only eat foods that a human can digest in it's raw natural state.
What about chicken? You can't eat that raw.
Google "eat chicken raw" and you will find a flood of question and answer sites asking what will happen to a person because he accidentally ate raw chicken. In the US we have been scared. Whenever these is something wrong with the food supply, news agencies sensationalize the problem. Then the 'food safety police' come in and 'educate' the public.
Same thing has happened to us with beef. An outbreak of e-coli in a fast food place in 1993 started the food police going crazy. Wasn't long before you , in some states, couldn't order a medium-rare hamburger. In my state, I cannot even buy unpasturized apple cider! The food police are everywhere.
Yes these are real disieses and concerns, but they were almost unheard of 100 years ago. Why? well for one thing, farmers took their animals to slaughter in a separate place, so the other animal couldn't see. They did it as quick as possible so the animals wouldn't suffer. It was also done one at a time and usually as needed. Hunters shoot and gut the animal where it falls. They then bring it home to butcher. Compare that to a factory slaughter house where multitudes of animals wait in lines to get killed. Walking in each others excrement, getting it flicked on them from other animals tails.
When I was a child, I would sneak up and grab some raw burger when mom was making dinner. I never got sick and it wasn't luck. We had fresh egg nog with unpasteurized eggs, and milk you had to shake because milk fat floats when it come fresh from the cow.
As more and more small farms go out of business, factory farms are getting bigger and diseases are spread more easily than ever before. One cow can effect millions of pounds of hamburger, because she will be mixed and packed with hundreds of other bovine and shipped across the country.
So to the answer of meat, get local, get with the small farmer that uses no or little antibiotics and eating that meat raw, in my opinion, is just a matter of preference.
Why I cook food.
According to innovations-report.com "The first solid evidence of human use of fire in Eurasia as early as 790,000 years ago has been found in excavations in Israel". People have only been farming for 10,000 years. That means for 780,000 years before farming, we have made cooked food.
That is a good thing. Cooking certain foods, even though they are not poisonous to humans, can make them easier to digest. Cooking can also make hard foods softer, like potatoes, allowing for easier chewing and digestion. Our ancestors did not have refrigeration. Cooking meats would kill off certain bacterias and parasites. It would also make the food last longer, and rot away at a slower pace.
Most veggies, I eat raw. Simply because I like them that way. Some, like brussel spouts, I cook, because, again, I like them that way. Most meats I will cook. I like sushi, and will still nibble on ground beef before it is a cooked burger. The meat I feed my family is local, at times it has even been home-grown and home slaughtered.
