V_V comments on Questions and comments about Eliezer's Dec. 2 2013 Oxford speech - Less Wrong

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Comment author: V_V 05 December 2013 06:42:11PM 0 points [-]

Your gut flora would probably be completely different and more resistant to those things if you ate all your meat raw.

AFAIK, the immune system has some ability to adapt to different pathogens, but this doesn't mean that eating significant quantities of raw meat wouldn't pose a health risk, particularly for a long-lived species such as humans.

Are other animals affected by food poisoning to any significant degree?

AFAIK, trichinellosis is endemic in wild carnivorous mammals.

Comment author: hyporational 05 December 2013 06:52:01PM 0 points [-]

but this doesn't mean that eating significant quantities of raw meat wouldn't pose a health risk

It definitely poses a risk, but how high is it?

AFAIK, trichinellosis is endemic in wild carnivorous mammals.

The question is, do they actually suffer from it, or are they carriers.