Relevant question about pork

[Left]

Does raw pork have more worms than raw beef, or is that just a scare tactic people use?

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[Another Lazarus]

raw beef might contains Mad Cow disease which will make your brain hollowed without you even realize it after 5 years of incubation. compared it with tape worms disease from raw pork, which one is more dangerous.?

 

[Left]

raw beef might contains Mad Cow disease which will make your brain hollowed without you even realize it after 5 years of incubation. compared it with tape worms disease from raw pork, which one is more dangerous.?

Hmmmmmmmm, probably beef?

 

[~Anastasia~]

Does raw pork have more worms than raw beef, or is that just a scare tactic people use?

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Raw pork often has different worms than raw beef.

Most warnings about pork came about because they commonly carried worms that produced trichinosis, because pigs will eat infected meat. Trichinosis worms not only infest the digestive tract, but burrow into the body and form cysts in the muscle tissue, which can't really be treated.


("Mad cow disease" is caused by another agent, and is not killed by cooking. If the meat is contaminated, it is dangerous, no matter how it is handled.)

 

[FireDragon76]

In the US, pork is rigorously inspected for parasites, nontheless, I would not eat it raw. So yeah, it's a scare tactic. All animals potentially have parasites.

Kreutzfeldt-Jacob (Mad Cow) in beef is not killed by heat. It isn't even technically alive.

 

[Kit Sigmon]

Does raw pork have more worms than raw beef, or is that just a scare tactic people use?

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We live close to a couple of farms...the one that we notice(by smell) the most is the pig farm...my husband eats pork, I don't.

Nearly all pigs raised in the U.S. come from (CAFO) Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations...you will know one instantly because these pig farms can be smelled from miles away.
It's what you don't know/or hear about...diseases like PRRS(porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome), Nipah Virus, PERV(Porcine Endogenous Retro Virus) information from the CDC, WHJ, Lancet journal and Vetmed.

I tend to believe that pigs carry more viruses...I haven't found anything about
raw pork having more worms than raw beef...but it ain't just the worms to be concerned about there's viruses... and you need to follow the safety handling and cooking guide concerning raw meat and raw pork.

 

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[Big Drew]

raw beef might contains Mad Cow disease which will make your brain hollowed without you even realize it after 5 years of incubation. compared it with tape worms disease from raw pork, which one is more dangerous.?

Mad Cow disease is carried in the spinal cord. I was a butcher for many years, and we had a tool that would remove the spinal cord from a loin before we cut it. We only had to do this with a beef loin (T-Bone/Porterhouse) by law...not required for pork. This is part of why it's important to wash any bone in steaks you may get, to insure there's no residue from the spinal cord left on the meat. Plus there's all the gritty bone dust...

As for other issues like worms, bacteria, etc...with the way beef and pork are processed now it's not nearly the issue it was in the past. I wouldn't recommend eating pork rare, but medium is perfectly fine.