photo of trichinosis from a black bear, do you still want to eat bear meat?

Grizzly Adams said:
Wife brought some Bassa home. After I googled it, cat food. :) Wrote Tilapia off a long time ago, basically raised on ####.
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And you think other fish are not swimming with parasites? .... interesting.



Ardent said:
I don't watch TV, and don't feel like starting I'm afraid, the fear monger genre does little for my imagination. We can spend our whole lives afraid and indoors, my kids now play in African dirt and eat the food too, and it's a far better life experience they do than us coddling them for fear of the parasites or any other phobia.- I figure I'm damn well screwed and a walking infestation, and might as well enjoy every minute. ;) Even been jumped by wild monkeys once! So I've probably collected a few neat things.
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Monsters Inside Me is not at all about fear mongering. It comes off much more like educational and informative than anything else. Ignorance never prevented anything or solved a problem. I'd rather be informed so as to be able to seek the correct help in the event I need it rather than suffer horribly at the hands of some pretty nasty diseases. The people who try to ignore the symptoms and tough it out generally end up either crippled or dead. Thats not very smart IMO.
 
bearkilr said:
In some countries, pork is still inspected for trichinosis, especially when the meat is to be used for sausage or ham via cold smoking. Beef doesn't contain trichinosis and isn't tested for it, to my knowledge. The only way for it to become infected is if ground beef comes into contact with contaminated pork, such as a dirty grinder. Perhaps you're thinking of E. Coli?
It's also been proven that there are different strains of trichinosis and freezing doesn't kill all of them, however cooking will.
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Pork is randomly tested in federally registered slaughter establishments. It is not all considered to contain Trichenella. Some countries have exporting requirements that state all pork must be treated i.e. Frozen for a set amount of time. But for canadian consumption it is all good to go.
There was a case not long ago just north of kitchener. A little girl got it. But that was on a menonite farm and they were feeding racoons they caught to the pigs.

As others have already stated, those pics are not of trichinosis. They Are more than likely round worm found in the intestines.
 
Ardent said:
I don't watch TV, and don't feel like starting I'm afraid, the fear monger genre does little for my imagination. We can spend our whole lives afraid and indoors, my kids now play in African dirt and eat the food too, and it's a far better life experience they do than us coddling them for fear of the parasites or any other phobia. I grew up commercial farming, hunt, handle, and eat wild game and fish for recreation, spent plenty of time in places such as the Amazon, Africa, and the North- I figure I'm damn well screwed and a walking infestation, and might as well enjoy every minute. ;) Even been jumped by wild monkeys once! So I've probably collected a few neat things.
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This ^ exactly! The vast majority of shows on TV that are purportedly "educational" or "documentary" are thinly veiled efforts to make us too frightened to leave our homes. "Monsters Inside Me", probably one of the least sensationalized ones, still puts very little effort into explaining how remote the chances of most of those infections are, or at least how remote the chances that they will be as gruesomely life-threatening as they are portrayed. Other ostensibly "educational" channels and shows are so loaded with crap that it's sickening. They find some "expert" who warns how the ocean is now brimming with man-eating super-squid...or that man-eating super-wolves threaten all humanity...assuming, of course, that you somehow avoid being vaporized by lightning, or struck by a meteor, or become the victim of spontaneous human combustion, or eating dangerously contaminated foods...and all the while, the entire planet is at risk from supernovae, from pulsars, from world-killer meteors and comets, from UV radiation and gamma rays and alien invasion and nuclear fallout and EMP's and genetically-altered diseases and ...well, you get the idea. Just stay home, don't go outside, don't do anything in real life that might better be done in the virtual world. Don't speak to strangers, don't make eye contact, and pay your taxes. You'll be fine...maybe...if you're lucky...
 
Most fish, both fresh and sal####er, are also infected with various types of round worms. Proper cooking kills them. If you can't accept that fact, you might as well become vegan, because almost any meat or poultry will have parasites or carry dangerous bacterium. Lucky for us, cooking kills them. I look at well cooked worms as extra protein because I'd really hate life as a vegetarian/vegan.
 
Daughter works in an Abattior ( she's a cutey too...don't think 250 lbs with a crew cut and a smoke hanging out the corner of her mout') and she says " Ecoli; well, duh! Thats why you cook the meat. It's pretty much all got ecoli. Cook it proper"
Wild meat is undoubtedly worse. Just cook it right.
Or else go back to buying commercially raised chicken in packages at the supermart like the rest of the sheeple.
 
In Iceland, there is a delicacy fit only for the strongest stomaches: a Greenland shark (toxic to human when fresh due to high contents of urea and trimethylamine oxide,) is buried on a beach and left for a few months until fermented (rotten,) then is dug up and eaten.

The human digestive system is an incredible thing. So is the human taste bud, apparently.

Don't make me tell you about the Inuit delicacy of Kiviaq. Suffice to say, fermented seagulls is an acquired taste...
 
X-man said:
Most fish, both fresh and sal####er, are also infected with various types of round worms. Proper cooking kills them. If you can't accept that fact, you might as well become vegan, because almost any meat or poultry will have parasites or carry dangerous bacterium. Lucky for us, cooking kills them. I look at well cooked worms as extra protein because I'd really hate life as a vegetarian/vegan.
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I avoid salt fish for a reason! The Finn's had it right with the Sauna, but the salted raw fish . . . . well, those pesky broad tapeworms are resilient, let's just say that.

Took the family on a nice camping trip a few years ago and picked up some nice looking smoked steelhead chunks. In the back of my mind, I knew that smoked fish does not equal dead parasites, but figured we'd chance it. Thirty seconds later, it was in the frying pan on the fire - I didn't like the way the white stringy thing twitched when I broke the trout steak open ;-)

As for the bear worms, I guess they'll just be one more flavour enhancer in the sausages!
 
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