There’s a reason we have food safety regulations…
And before that religions banned eating pork. A common worm people get from eating undercooked pork spread through your bloodstream and eggs (not commonly, but occasionally) can cross the blood/brain barrier.
People think it’s just a saying these days, but that’s because we know how to mostly prevent it, so it went from common to super rare.
But every once and a while some idiot doesn’t cook pork properly and this happens.
To be fair, health regulations have largely eliminated the risk of parasites in pork. Though that doesn’t apply everywhere in the world.
Hold up.
I’m talking about food prep regulations, cooking to an internal temperature.
Which is very easy for idiots to not follow.
You seem to be talking about farm regulations preventing infected meat. That is not happening and not really possible. It takes a single microscopic egg.
We can’t count on farm regulations.
But food prep regulations are like vaccines, if everyone does it, people start to think we don’t need it and stop following it.
Are you aware of RFK’s comments on vaccines?
He’s exactly the type of guy that wouldnt care if pork was undercooked
Yes, I understand that. Cooking pork to an internal temperature of 165 Fahrenheit will kill parasites. But health regulations on farms have essentially eliminated the risk of parasites to begin with, specifically to mitigate the idiots. RFK admitted to eating in a foreign country that doesn’t have the same safety standards. That’s the reason he was infected with parasites.
It’s both, regulations during the animals life and cooking. Wild animals have way more parasites than domestic ones.
Trichinosis is all but gone in the USA, you can eat pork chops rare here
What you’re doing is like telling people polio is cured so they don’t need vaccines…
The overall number of cases reported has decreased because of improved pig-raising practices in the pork industry, commercial and home freezing of pork, and public awareness of the danger of eating raw or undercooked meat products. The number of cases associated with raw or undercooked wild game meats has remained relatively constant over time (Figure 2).
The reason it’s so rare is people finally stopped eating undercooked pork.
If you start eating raw pork, you’re basically playing Russian roulette. Do it enough and you will get the bad result.
The USDA and FDA, which both lean conservative in their recommendations, consider whole cuts of pork safe down to 145F (roughly equivalent to cooked to medium):
https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2011/05/25/cooking-meat-check-new-recommended-temperatures
https://www.fda.gov/media/107000/download
This has been the case for over a decade. Pork should be cooked but the old 160F recommendations have been gone for a long time now because commercial pork is relatively safe.
Also note that this is the one-minute pasteurization temp; meat can be held at a lower temperature for longer to render it safe.
Not as a general rule. This might be the case in the US, but in Germany raw pork is a pretty normal thing to eat (“Mett”), and it’s safe.
