Should The Risk Of E Coli Put People Off Eating Steak Tartare?

[sandyRoe]

Would we all not be much safer, healthier, and wealthier, if we stuck to a vegetarian diet?

[237SJ]

After seeing what a friend of mine went through with a parasitic worm infection that she picked up in China, I would never eat raw meat and the E Coli would be the least of my worries.

[chrissa1]

I love Steak Tartare. Rare steaks, Yum Yum. Pink Lamb, delicious.

So my answer is, No.

[mushroom25]

there's a risk involved with all kinds of food that people like to eat (would you eat Fugu, knowing that if incorrectly prepared it will kill you?) and as long as each remains legal, it should be up to the consumer to make that choice.

given that it takes a great deal more land to produce animal-based food than an equivalent amount of plant-based food, vegetarianism may well be forced upon us, unless population growth can be better controlled.

[Baldric]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare#Health_concerns

[sandyRoe]

If people must eat meat then 'well done' looks to be the way to go

[MichaelZZ]

I had Steak Tartare once in a beer hall in Germany. It made me, as we say "oop North", reight badly. I've never had it since. (But then, I've never supped 4 litres of German beer in half an hour again.)

[mushroom25]

indeed Michaelzz - if you have eleventeen beers followed by a mars bar, it's invariably the mars bar that causes the subsequent health issues, isn't it?
:-)

[heathfield]

Vegetarian diet safer and healthier? Look up Google on outbreaks of listeria in lettuces and bagged salads!

[shaneystar2]

I eat this on a regular basis and have done for years .
Never had any ill effects .
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mett

[gollob]

How can vegetarian food be healther in Northern Europe. There would not be anybody there if Animals were not used for food and clothing