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Steak tartare and carpaccio are two raw beef dishes that I love that are common in France and Italy, respectively. There are many others. But American food pra
by gotaquestion 5y ago
Steak tartare and carpaccio are two raw beef dishes that I love that are common in France and Italy, respectively. There are many others.
But American food practices are so awful that it is impossible to eat raw meat here, mostly: some places are careful. That's why cows are pumped full of antibacterials: because they are given growth hormones until their udders rip, and are constantly infected.
This doesn't happen in parts of the world where animals are raised and slaughtered in non-high-density, full-speed-ahead industrial production.
The main reason America needs so many food laws is because they try to scale everything up so that people can eat steaks every day for pennies. I'm exaggerating, but only a little. Americans gotta have it all, and you can raise animals ethically, safely, and without drugs with that kind of entitlement. That's why food tastes so much better in provincial parts of Europe, it's not a myth.
- rtpg 5y ago(Disclaimer: I roll the dice on steak tartar every once in a while) While American food standards are definitely worse, it’s a mistake to say that in Europe raw meat is safe. Even in the most rustic of environments there are loads of ways for your raw meat to get messed up. So you’re needing to trust a lot of stuff and are rolling the dice a bit each time. Of course everything is a dice roll, but turns out cooking meat solves a lot of problems. Factory farming did not create food poisoning!
- gotaquestion 5y ago> Factory farming did not create food poisoning! No one said it did. But it exacerbates it by orders of magnitude. Also odd to hear someone defending factory farming.
- jazzyjackson 5y agoI was just reading the wiki on steak tartare b/c of this thread and was surprised to find its original name was steak à l'Americaine