The sickest I've been in my life was after having chicken sashimi (from a specialty restaurant in Japan where they raise the chickens for the purpose, butcher them carefully, etc). I spent a bit over a week splitting time running between the bedroom and the bathroom; there were days where I could barely drag myself out of bed for the latter. And without getting <i>too</i> detailed, have you ever had a moment where you needed a bucket next to the toilet? Yeah.<p>It was pretty tasty, but I don't think it was delicious enough to justify the aftermath.
> CDC estimates that every year in the United States about 1 million people get sick from eating contaminated poultry. [1]<p>That seems at least 10x higher than I'd expect. I'm surprised it's that high.<p>[1] <a href="https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/chicken.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.cdc.gov/foodsafety/chicken.html</a>
> John, who is not sharing his surname for privacy reasons<p>Presumably in case it should be held against him by a life insurance provider in the future.
Raw chicken... from a specialized food supplier he trusts not to give him a carcass that had been festering in feces for a few days before packaging.<p>Ya, I'll eat that raw chicken too!
Not saying he's cheating for clicks and I assume this is real. But unless you see him buying and unpackaging the chicken [I can't stomach watching this so I don't know if he does], he could _theoretically_ cook it at 130F for a few hours, which would have a texture very close to raw while being safe to eat.
This could be an interesting experiment (and dangerous for him) but he absolutely doesn’t say what the purpose is. I don’t quite understand why is doing that.
Illustrates that rules don't have to be absolute. Safety regulations are lowest-common-denominator, multiple failsafe type of things, designed to work for a population of millions. If you trust yourself and your supply chain, you can push past the normal limits.
He may have innate or adaptive immunity to salmonella already. I wonder how many dice rolls it would take to hit one of the antibiotic-resistant strains that are able to prevent immune system response.
His instagram channel for those interested <a href="https://www.instagram.com/rawchickenexperiment/" rel="nofollow">https://www.instagram.com/rawchickenexperiment/</a>
Can some explain to me why eating raw meat was a thing considered to be done by hunter gatherers if it makes people really sick? This would have had to happen before age of discovery of fire/heat
> “<i>I don’t think it’s the raw chicken itself that will kill you, it’s more what they’re doing to the animals in the factory farms</i>”<p>Salmonella is a hoax now?
This is the same as the "we don't need vaccines because nobody gets sick" argument. Eating chicken from a well controlled supply chain probably won't make you sick. Wow, such bravery.