• Socsa
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    8 months ago

    Raw pork literally has a risk of brain worms. It’s been in the news.

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      8 months ago

      It is extremely rare in the UK https://parasitesandvectors.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13071-017-2280-8

      You’re more likely to get poisoning from cooked rice. If cooked rice is ok, raw pork is more than ok.

      You should also know one thing about food in the UK - if some infection is found in the food chain, Brits tend to obliterate the whole animal stock to stop it. A lot of diseases don’t exist in the UK because Brits annihilated whole animal populations. Like tick bourne encephalitis, for example. Or rabies. Or when whole chicken farms are burned to the ground when one bird gets avian flu. We take this shit real serious.