I always hear that pork has to be thoroughly cooked to prevent things like trichinosis and other parasitic infections. However there’s a lot of types of cured pork commonly eaten, right? Here in Spain everyone eats ham, lomo, chorizo and other stuff that is cured but essentially not cooked, and the few cases of trichinosis that happen are all from people eating game they hunt themselves. Is pork really dangerous?
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Don’t quote me on this, but isn’t pork safer to eat a little under done because we no longer feed pigs our garbage? My dad growing up had an underground bin where they’d put their food scraps and a farmer would come pick it up to feed their pigs. My understanding was this is why we had to cook our food thoroughly.
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