There are a few of us that eat VLC or ZC but how many eat the meat/protien/fat raw? Just thinking about it lately, can't get past the yuck factor but I wanted to hear from others on this subject.

Who eats raw meat? Why?

Emagine how fast dinner would be if you didn't have to cook it

I prefer mine medium rare, not bloody rare. If anyone responds yes to this, would love to hear the health benefits

I'm curious too.

I'm making homemade burger patties for supper and have been nibbling on the ground beef. It's something I've always done. I can't see myself eating a meal of raw meat but I do do this.

I remember nibbling on the raw ground burger when Mom made patties when I was a kid but I don't think I've done it since. I do prefer all my meats a touch under cooked but not raw.

I found this blog

http://www.mygutsy.com/is-raw-meat-healthy/

(http://www.rawpaleodietforum.com/) and Dirty Carnivore Forum (http://forum.dirtycarnivore.com/)?

I have always preferred my beef rare - run twice over a candle, as I have been fond of saying LOL - but actually raw is even better in many instances. I was also a nibbler of the raw ground beef while making tacos or hamburgers. I've had steak tartar a few times, and very much enjoyed it. In Germany, where I lived for several years, they often eat - or ate; it has been a few years - raw pork, ground up, with onions (trichinosis is rare to non-existent there, I am told), and it is quite good. No idea about the health benefits, if any, but I know I like the taste. Without knowing the provenance of my beef nowadays I prefer to cook it at least a little bit. This may be why I adore tuna sushi - it is very meaty.
On a side note - am I the only one who watched "Rosemary's Baby", saw the liver eating bit, and couldn't quite understand the "eeeeew" coming from the rest of the cinema? I thought it was an interesting idea, and worth trying sometime LOL. Again, not knowing where the liver comes from has been a limiting factor.

Raw meat is the best option, I only eat raw beef and lamb, sometimes fish.
I love 2 pounds of Ireland beef raw.

I don't touch raw meat. Just don't like raw stuff in general lol.

We raise or hunt/fish for all of our meats now so I do know where our meats come from. We do all the processing of those meats ourselves also. I have a bag of chicken livers and hearts I stuck in the freezer, I'm tempted to get them out and slowly work my way into it. The yuck factor kinda is stopping me this morning though

I eat my beef and lamb blue. so it is raw. But with the outside seared to get rid of the grubby mitts of the meat handlers before me :-).

Given a choice I would be quite happy to eat it completely raw. But, I can not raise my own meat, and beef and lamb only make up a small (ok tiny) portion of my yearly meat consumption.

I would not eat raw chicken or pork, simply because it is battery farmed fed on rubbish and are prone to carry a lot of transferable micro-organisms.

When I get fresh fish, I like to prepare it in lemon juice or vinegar so I don't have to go through the cooking process, but again this is a rare treat for me :-).

Jaywood, you don't cook your fish? I was always told to fully cook fish because of worms, some of them are quite nasty. We have never seen worms in the catfish that we catch, I was told to look at the meat around the spine when we fillet the fish and we would see them if they were infested. Haven't seen any yet.

To be honest if I could get my hands on fish that had not been frozen before being sold to me as fresh I might worry about it. But my understanding is the worms and parasite issues are normally only from line caught deep see fish. So pacific salmon and the like. ---- but don't take my word for it!

Things like tuna or salmon stake that I get are great just put into a bag with lemon juice and left for 6 hours. Herring is famously eaten just in brine. But any fish really is good raw.

Ditto everything you've said Jay, applies to me as well. I love Sashimi which is raw fresh fish, eaten it with wasabi mustard. I only sear the outside of my beef or lamb so that others around me aren't grossed out (it's cold on the inside) -- but I'd eat it raw otherwise. I've been doing this all my life.

I remember decades ago that my mom got a tape worm from eating raw pork. She couldn't figure out why she was losing all this weight (THIS IS NOT A WEIGHT LOSS RECOMMENDATION) she was a tiny woman, less than 100 lbs soaking wet and lost like 20 lbs in 2 month and the doctors couldn't figure out why. Finally the little guy made an appearance and she took it to the doctors in a mayo jar... it was like 15-18 inches long so she had it for some time. Creepy...

I've heard freezing the liver first is good. Makes it less slimy.

I don't feel any need to eat my meat raw. I think that cooking was a something we evolved to do for a reason, like killing off parasites before we eat them and making food easier to digest.

However, I eat a wide variety of foods, so I've got lots of nutrients coming in, not just muscle meat.