Undercooked bear meat linked to outbreak of rare parasitic disease in U.S.
Undercooked bear meat linked to outbreak of rare parasitic disease in U.S.
An outbreak of a rare parasitic disease has been linked to undercooked bear meat eaten by dozens of people at a gathering in North Carolina, a new U.S. CDC report has revealed.
Don't try to be Kennedy.
I'm vegan but when people question my manhood, I tell them I love eating bear balls and I invite them to a hunt. Then, when we finally find a bear with balls that are worthy of me breaking my veganism, I just run. I usually only invite stupid people who are not more athletic than myself. It works out. Everyone gets a story to tell.
Fuck anyone who hunts bears.
There is a natural order to prey and predators.
If you're going to hunt a predator, and it's not for sanctioned wildlife management culls, get a Bowie knife and have at it. Otherwise, I hope you suffer a horrible death.
I'm not anti-hunting, at all. Hunting is easily the most humane way to eat meat. But hunting predators is a sport, not subsistence.
You can pretty much guarantee that anyone who hunts predators for sport, is a gigantic asshole and you should not feel bad about wishing them harm. I would take that statement even further, but I don't want the mods to remove this comment.
To be clear, no one likes bear meat, they're opportunistic scavengers. These bears were hunted for sport most likely, but the hunters were slightly better than your average bear hunting asshole, and at least didn't waste the meat. Most likely because it would be a wasted kill, and illegal.
Trichinosis is rumoured to be "what done for" the franklin expedition to find the north west passage.
The Jens Monk expedition lost 62 men to Trichinosis, and returned home with only 3 men alive.
https://canadiangeographic.ca/articles/jens-munk-an-expedition-ahead-of-its-time/
I love reading about these guys, just so courageous. I'm sat here looking at spreadsheets worrying about emails. These guys did the equivalent of flying to mars in a washing machine, battling ferocious martians, succumbing to a war of attrition against a mysterious ailment, before un-dying and coming back home.
Other than the large number of people, this is not much of a story. Living in a place where bear hunting has a legal season, ( it just finished up here), how to properly cook bear meat is well known. So the risk is virtually zero. This sounds like a case of an ignorant cook serving badly prepared food. Not much different than a cook serving salad greens that were improperly washed and poisoning a large number of people with salmonella.
The moral of the story is: Learn how to cook foods properly with proper sanitation if you are going to serve a bunch of people. And the knowledge of how to it properly is a mere google search away.
If I'm eating meat from a wild animal I'm cooking it long and slow to kill anything it might have.
My favorite is putting some deer meat and sauerkraut in a crock pot for 6-8 hours and slapping it on toasted rolls with mustard. A friend did that with a deer they hit with a car and it was amazing and I don't think I have any brain worms.
I think this was reported a few weeks ago when it first came out. Crazy how even the vegans caught it from cross-contamination, that bear must have been riddled with them.
Maybe the Libertarians from A Libertarian walks into a bear finally found a solution to their bear problem.
Hopefully it was a bunch MAGATs and the bear got the last laugh. RIP Mr. Bear.
If you get the parasite, just eat some of the bear's liver.