know-your-onions
know-your-onions t1_j42lghr wrote
Reply to comment by poorbill in Why do poultry producers kill their stock when they get bird flu, rather than keeping survivors to reproduce? by poorbill
Humans haven’t managed to develop immunity to flu viruses yet (and we don’t kill all the humans that get infected - in fact we go out of our way to keep them alive), so what makes you think birds would be different?
know-your-onions t1_jdc1hb1 wrote
Reply to comment by ChemicalRain5513 in Do insects have "meat" like other animals? I know that grubs, mealworms, etc. are eaten in some parts of the world, but if, for instance, beetles were the size of cows, could you butcher one and make beetle steak? by 9RFCat9
Because a lot of people like to eat steak rare.
But chicken carcasses for instance, are processed in a way that pretty much guarantees faecal contamination, which is where the salmonella risk comes from. But you can process chickens more carefully and eat the meat rare if you like - it would just make chicken much more expensive in the western world.
Cooking certainly isn’t a failsafe way to render any and all food safe to eat though. If it were, we wouldn’t need to worry about a bunch of other food safety stuff either.