gwern comments on Procedural Knowledge Gaps - Less Wrong

126 Post author: Alicorn 08 February 2011 03:17AM

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Comment author: gwern 08 February 2011 05:09:19PM 1 point [-]

The best guess I can venture is that it has something to do with the raising and butchering process. Notice that it's also safe to eat a lot of seafood raw (which is often called sushi); it seems unlikely to me that all sorts of random sea-critter would also have any special cow immune system features.

Comment author: Jonathan_Graehl 09 February 2011 03:37:26AM 0 points [-]

Yes. Conventional wisdom is that undercooked beef is pretty safe. Weird that chicken and pig cultivation would be so much more filthy than cow and farmed-fish. (for fish, we could suppose that fish diseases and parasites aren't so harmful to us as those found in our mammal kin)