Like any animal, if you raise it right, you don't have to worry about it. Not every pig is somehow intrinsically carrying roundworm just like not all chicken are carrying salmonella.
For the purposes of industrial food hygiene, all chicken do in fact have to be assumed to be carrying salmonella.
Like sure, if you raise a bunch of chicken from eggs in a quarantined space, they probably won't have salmonella, but if you're scaling up operations to any meaningful degree, it's gonna be a thing. It's just too virulent to keep out. Of course, in a very literal sense, not every single chicken is going to be making you violently ill if you eat it raw, but at the same time, just about any places that raises chicken at scale will occasionally have salmonella outbreaks, so it's always a gamble.
Which is why raw chicken dishes are exceedingly rare.
That's industrial scale. As mentioned, it all depends on how the meat was raised and sourced. Not everyone procures meat from industrial chains, even in the US, nor does every dish use it.
An audit found that about 4% of store-bought chicken tested positive for salmonella in the US. And I consider that high. Yet, that's still 1 in 25.
So it's makes sense that small-scale farms will have even more negligible numbers that would be on par with with consuming raw beef, and in this case, pork for mett.
Raw chicken dishes have always been rare because... well... it's off putting. Fear of any food borne illness aside, chicken is already bland and reductive in nature when cooked. It is even more so when raw where it's not going to hold on to a lot of sauces or seasoning on top of a repulsive texture. Yet, there are raw chicken dishes (torisashi, tartars, or how a french poulet de bresse can be kept pink with an internal temp lower than recommended levels) which goes to show that not every chicken inherently has salmonella.
Also there were 6 cases of trichinosis in the US last year. On average, there are around 15 reported cases every year. And those were linked more with wild game and home butchered pigs that were in contact with wildlife. Not sure what the numbers are in germany but I wouldn't be surprised if it's similar.
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u/LessOrgies 8h ago
No different than steak tartare or kibbeh nayyeh