Ground Meat Ok to Eat?

Question
I抦 curious to know what your thoughts are on eating raw meats ground?  I抳e been finding that I enjoy throwing together various raw meats and fats (e.g., organs meats, muscle, meats, marrow bone and white fat) into my Cuisinart and making a raw p鈚?with it.

Any reason grinding raw meats would degrade the health benefits of it?


Thanks,

Michel


Answer
Well, first of all it's definitely not recommended to buy minced/ground meat from producers. This is because many butchers use chemicals to clean their knives and the chemicals then get onto the meat. You can usually tell, by the appalling rather metallic taste, whether chemicals are in it.

As for grinding raw meat yourself, a number of rawpalaeodieters do that, especially at the start of the diet.
It's been stated by some rawpalaeodieters that it's easier to digest raw meat that's been bolted down  in chunks with only minimal to moderate chewing, whereas eating minced or heavily-prechewed raw food actually takes longer to digest. While I can't be 100% certain, I would say that, given my own past experience, that the latter idea appears to be, to some extent, correct. However, there is  no generally reported reduction in health or health-recovery-rate/speed  as a result of eating ground raw meat instead.

Also, grinding the meat would presumably  speed up loss of nutrients due to more more meat being exposed to the process of oxidation, but since it would be eaten immediately after processing, that would not be an issue.

I generally follow a Palaeo-style viewpoint in that I try to view myself in the position of a Palaeolithic hunter, before the advent of cooking. Such a hunter would not have eaten more than very minimal amounts of root-vegetables, if at all, wouldn't have eaten more than minimal amounts of raw honey due to lack of availability in pre-agricultural times, certainly wouldn't have eaten raw dairy products and didn't have food-processors to grind their meats or juicers to make veggie-juice  etc. Such an approach has helped me avoid various pitfalls on this diet. That said, this diet can be  very difficult to get used to, what with all the phobias in modern society re raw-meats etc., so I would say that since you seem to like the ground meat, you should carry on eating it, for now - one should enjoy one's diet, after all, if one is to continue with it long-term. It shouldn't do any harm. Much later on, you can, of course,  experiment with periods of eating mainly ground meats and periods of eating only non-ground raw meats so that you can compare results etc. The only thing I'm mildly dubious about is the minced marrow-bone. As has been pointed out in my rawpalaeodiet group quite recently, Palaeolithic hunters just didn't have the powerful carnivorous jaws necessary to chew the bones of the large mammals they killed - so eating ground-up powdered  bones seems a bit dodgy to me. Come to think of it, a cuisinart seems a bit of a flimsy gadget to use to grind bones - perhaps you were just referring to grinding raw marrow without the bone, which is fine.

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