>>Who says you have to cook
>>meat...we just choose to.
>>There are plenty of meals
>>(mainly Asian) that use uncooked
>>meat.
>>
>>JMello
>
>ould you eat one of these
>meals in merica?

I have.

>ould it
>be safe to eat uncooked
>meat from merica?

I have.

> am
>not sure if buy
>this argument, aside from fish,
>i dont know how much
>of the sian diet is
>dependent on meat...

There's a Korean, Japanese and Vietnamese dish which consist of raw beef on top of noodles. (I wish I could remember the name.)

>ost of the
>"hinese food" or ai food
>you find in merica has
>been turned into something that
>mericans will eat. this includes
>loading down meals with sauted
>meats and unnatural sauces (sweet
>and sour?). how many head
>of cattle do you think
>there are in hina? hmmm....

Where did I say anything about America? I was countering the point made in the previous post: that because meat has to be cooked to be consumed it must be unhealthy or unsafe.

JMello

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