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Family. Faith. Love. Human Rights. Art. Fitness. Beauty. These are the things I consider life.

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America, you are broken

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People Who Enjoy “Medium Rare Chicken”

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My dad was a veterinarian in the meat animal industry so here is an explanation of why medium rare is a thing with steaks, but not chicken:

In beef, what you worry about is e. coli.  In healthy live cattle (and they must be healthy to be butchered for consumption) e. coli is only in the digestive tract but it can escape and contaminate the outside of the beef during slaughter and butchering.  The bacteria does not migrate to the interior of the meat as there is no circulation to take it there.  So you can eat beef where the inside is less cooked as long as the outside is well seared to kill any bacteria that may be on it.  Hamburger should always be thoroughly cooked because it is all “outside”.

With chicken, the concern is salmonella, which is found through out the body of the chicken.  Chickens can tolerate it, it doesn’t make them noticeably sick, but humans can not, so the entire meat must be cooked enough to kill any bacteria present in the meat.  As a note, it used to be believed that salmonella was not passed on to the eggs and in fact in the 1950′s, when my dad was in Vet school, studies showed it was not present in the eggs even if it was present in the hen.  That’s why there used to be a lot of recipes that used raw eggs, it was safe then.  However due to some change in the bacteria, or changes in egg-farming practices, it is now found in eggs as well.  The amounts are small, and if you are eating eggs within a couple days of being laid it’s probably not a problem, but store eggs are old enough for bacteria to have reproduced to dangerous levels and the liquid interior allows it to spread all through the egg.

As a side note, with pigs the concern is trichinosis, a parasite that used to be common in pigs and spread to humans through under-cooked pork.  However, it has been essentially eliminated in commercially produced pork these days.  It should be safe now to eat “medium rare” pork, but trichinosis was so horrible and the fear of it so ingrained that it is rare to see pork that is not well done.

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^ Good addition!

I also wanted to mention that apart from the salmonella risk (which is a freakin’ big “apart from”), you also have the risk of Campylobacter infections. Not only can these lead to really really horrible gastro-intestinal problems, a small number of infections also cause an auto-immune response that leads to the body destroying its own myelin (the stuff around your nerves that makes them good at carrying electrical signals). Basically, your nerves stop working and even if you survive, you’ll be hooked up to an iron lung for… a long time. I don’t know how long it takes to regrow myelin, I’m not a neurologist. 

Don’t eat raw poultry, guys

[petermorwood]

Apart from the fashion-driven idiocy of eating undercooked chicken with salmonella seasoning, those are repellent images.

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Like, I don’t know how anyone would be able to stand the texture?  Every single time I’ve bitten into undercooked poultry, my body pulled veto and screamed ‘REJECT REJECT REJECT’ in my head, metaphorically speaking.

[doomhamster]

Raw chicken has one of the grossest textures in existence. I have to steel myself to handle it when I’m cooking, I can’t imagine what would possess someone to willingly put it in their mouth, even disregarding the health risks.

Also another thing re: “medium rare” stuff - burgers should never be eaten medium rare either. Nothing made with ground meat is safe to eat unless thoroughly cooked, because unlike a steak or cutlet where only the surface of the cut has potentially been exposed to bacteria, the whole burger could be contaminated. (And yes, I know some real burger joints do it this way. I’ve had the displeasure of biting into a burger to find it pink in the center ere now. But they really shouldn’t and I’m amazed they don’t get sued for causing food poisoning more often.)

[thebiscuiteternal]

As someone who has had a vicious case of restaurant-caused salmonella before, a primer of the misery:

- purging from both ends at the same time, with your body continuing to spasm and heave even when there is *nothing* left in you.

- so much pain you can’t move or sleep. every muscle in your body feels cramped and your guts have tied themselves in knots. you can’t sit up without assistance and you can’t stand at all because your legs just *refuse* to stretch out or support your weight.

- so badly dehydrated you can’t even cry and you start hallucinating. everything feels like it’s burning or scraped with sandpaper.

- they can’t give you pills or liquid medication because you *will* throw them back up. they can’t give you topical medication because you can’t absorb it. the *only* way is injections or ivs.

- the worst of it lasted over a week and full recovery to a relatively “normal” status took months.

- I was not considered an “emergency” case because I was still conscious for most of this.

[doomhamster]

Yeah, and also going by the person I know who’s just getting over a relatively MILD case of food poisoning? Good luck if you’re on any other kind of medication. You’re going to functionally be without it for days with all that THAT may imply.

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girl what are you talking about this rips

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she's got a popcorn ceiling and the godzilla figurines are what's "ruining" the decor? get a grip

[bogleech]

How is it remotely possible to like a person and not automatically like everything they like by association???? I never thought that was even avoidable? If you're dating someone you shouldn't be capable of thinking anything they care about is tacky or stupid??!

It goes both ways like if she was putting vomitous beige sears catalog trash in with his stuff I'd hope he'd find that cute and fun.

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It’s a simple request

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IG lydiairenee

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All ashy 😂 (x)

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THE MATRIX 1999 • The Wachowskis

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Superman vs. The Elite (2012) dir. Michael Chang

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This about sums it up

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Sweetest thing I’ve seen in a while 😍😘 

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Mike would run you the fuck outta the league. (x)

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race against the clock

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Goodest boy loves his friend 

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Horsedog & doghorse

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That looks like an Ovcharka or Alabai dog, which are livestock guardians, bred to protect the farm’s animals. So they aren’t only friends, that dog probably raised and protects that horse.