Eating raw meat- Bad for you?

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I'm working on essay on the cult of Dionysus. There's a theory that part of the ritual involved eating raw meat, probably goat.

This ritual would probably have taken place once a year, possibly once every 2 years. I'm just wondering if eating raw meat would make one ill? Or would it be okay if it was only once a year or so and only a little bit was eaten?

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otolith said:

Have you never eaten raw beef? Tartare or carpaccio or even just a bit of steak or roast beef properly cooked?

I've eaten steak and roast beef when they're still a bit pink inside. Guess I never really thought of that as raw since it's A) warm and B) the outside is cooked.

Anyway, thanks for the replies boys and girls, no ill effects from eating raw goats it is!

Now how difficult would be for a few women to tear apart a live goat?

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SiH said:

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I'm working on essay on the cult of Dionysus. There's a theory that part of the ritual involved eating raw meat, probably goat.

This ritual would probably have taken place once a year, possibly once every 2 years. I'm just wondering if eating raw meat would make one ill? Or would it be okay if it was only once a year or so and only a little bit was eaten?

What do you think prehistoric man had been doing for years and years! Didn't seem to do them much harm.

Ah, but I'm wondering if digestion would have changed by then, Greeks didn't eat much meat, the meat they did get was cooked as it had been part of the sacrifice to the Gods.

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anonymous said:

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Sadly I don't have time to buy a goat and then run around the department trying to find a few undergrads willing to rip it apart.

That said it may have been bigger than a goat, could have been a deer.

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I'm impressed that we managed to get to the Ancient Greeks eating raw goat, to modern day hamburgers.

One of the many things I love about PH.