r/mildyinteresting • • 11h ago

humankind hiccups 😅 Germans love their meat raw

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u/Ok-Elk-3046 7h ago

They absolutely are not.

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u/PeterPanski85 7h ago

20 cases in the last couple of years. By ~500 million butchered pigs.

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u/Ok-Elk-3046 6h ago

Bullshit. Almost fifty percent of people in Germany are infected with toxoplasmosis gondii. That's just one parasite. Vegetarianism being a preventing factor btw, pointing heavily to undercooked meat.

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u/user-the-name 4h ago

No, it is absolutely transmitted by eating raw pork.

Similarly, Hackepeter or Mett, a German dish made of raw minced pork meat, is more popular and consumed more frequently in eastern Germany compared with western Germany. This dietary preference was linked to a higher T. gondii seroprevalence in the human adult population in eastern Germany

https://www.eurosurveillance.org/content/10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2025.30.34.2500069

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u/user-the-name 4h ago

But you agree that you do get parasitic infections from eating raw pork.

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u/user-the-name 4h ago

Not according to the data I literally just linked.

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u/user-the-name 3h ago

Consumption of tissue cysts in meat is one of the primary means of T. gondii infection, both for humans and for meat-eating, warm-blooded animals.[30]: 3  Humans consume tissue cysts when eating raw or undercooked meat (particularly pork and lamb).[41] Tissue cyst consumption is also the primary means by which cats are infected.[4]: 46 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxoplasma_gondii#Formation_of_tissue_cysts

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u/user-the-name 2h ago

If you're not going to pay attention to the evidence I have already provided you, no further evidence will convince you. You just do not want to believe this, and you won't.

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u/Ok-Elk-3046 4h ago

How would not eating meat prevent a Human from being infected by a cat?

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u/Ok-Elk-3046 2h ago

Perhaps read the comment you originally responded to again. Slowly. Word for word. Let me now if you need help you need clarification on what any of the words mean.