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“Regular” pork has parasites too, that’s why you wanna cook it to the “safe” temperature.

• linuxftw 4y ago
  The USDA inspects for parasites and rejects any animals that have signs of them. Very little US farmed pork has parasites.
  • taeric 4y ago
    I think this is also the case for salmon? First time I had wild salmon at home, I was... rather surprised by the number of parasites on it. It really is impressive how well farmed meat does at keeping that out. I don't think many of us have any sort of intuition for just how parasite ridden food was even a half century ago.
    • clbrmbr 4y ago
      I’ll think twice before my next sashimi!
    • Tagbert 4y ago
      That is why all commercial sales of wild salmon are frozen to kill the parasites. If you catch it yourself you need to either freeze it thoroughly or be very careful.
• MichaelRo 4y ago
  Not really. Compared to the number of domestic pigs, parasite infections (like the deadly for humans Trichinellosis) are almost inexistent. And domestic pig meat is tested for parasites nevertheless. With all that I feel uneasy eating raw meat, although salami and prosciutto are very tasty and sometimes I submit to temptation. Feel like running the Russian roulette everytime although the probability of an actual parasite infestation is extremely low. Wild pigs would probably be okay if processed into I dunno, pasteurized canned meat. If that's guaranteed to kill parasites it should be okay for human consumption provided the meat is tested before nevertheless. One thing I'm thinking of is this problem: as far as I know testing the meat is a slow, manual process, where a human is required to take slices of the meat and check them under a microscope. Therefore it's only done on a statistical basis. That's enough for farm pigs, if a pig from a larger culture is parasite free, chances are very high that all are parasite free. But this is not possible for wild boars. Every pig they shot needs to be tested coze you never know otherwise. This is again feasible for the occasional hunt (here at least). Hunters will send a probe to the lab before consuming the pig and that's doable because it's like ... one or a few pigs. Not really possible if you massacre 1000 of them. So unless some technology is developed for automating this testing procedure, you can't safely eat the meat of a wild boar mass slaughter.
  • tra3 4y ago
    I thought cured meat was safe for consumption. Wild bear which is a popular hunting game here has a very high trichinosis occurrence, but regular cooking methods render it safe. My understanding is that high temperatures kill all parasites, but if that’s not the case I’d love to learn about it.
• thehappypm 4y ago
  Confidently incorrect!