Germans love their meat raw

[u/mfbane]

[u/Guardian_of_theBlind]

It's heavily regulated. mett in germany is way safer than the cooked and highly processed antibiotics slop you call meat in the us

[u/ripyurballsoff → u/Guardian_of_theBlind]

You do understand a giant portion of American grocery stores are dedicated to raw, unprocessed meat right? Your comment makes you look ignorant. Yes we also have pre packaged DELI meat that’s highly processed that a lot of people buy. But it’s not our only option. I’ve been to European grocery stores and you guys have just as much processed crap on the shelves as we do. So get off your high horse.

[u/Valeryne40K → u/ripyurballsoff]

It's not about processing. It's about laws and regulation.

For starters, every slaughtered pig is in Germany being controlled by a vet and it's organs lab tested for parasites (Fleischbeschau). The vets are being employed by your local veterinary office to avoid conflict of interests.

Trichinella parasite infections are reportable by law. Statistics say, there is one infected pig in 100 million pigs. Every piece of meat is tracked, so if there is one infection basically the whole heard isn being culled and the farm is being mega-disinfected, like torched. There are around five human infections per year for a population of over 80 milion. Most of those infections are people consuming wild boars / people handling wild animals like vets, zookeepers.

At this point, the probability of being struck by a lightning is higher, or winning the lottery.

And as of now, you guys are dismantilng your food and safety standards even more, when I read about some random outbreaks in the US caused by raw veggies and what not. Yes, we also had our veggie-case (EHEC), but that was 15 years ago.

[u/ripyurballsoff → u/Valeryne40K]

I understand what you’re saying and I agree. Our current administration is dismantling our already weak Food And Drug Administration and I hate it. There’ve been so many food related outbreaks since this administration took over and it’s disgusting. I’m envious of a lot of European countries that have implemented systems that actually look out for their people and aren’t dead set on doing whatever it takes to maximize profit. And there are lots of Americans that feel the same way. We aren’t just sitting here happily eating slop, feeling like shit, and being proud of it. Every day our “representative democracy” feels less and less representative.