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1) Very unlikely indeed. Let's put it this way, so-called "food-poisoning" deaths usually happen to vulnerable people such as sick babies and ill older folks. This is not because the raw meat is dangerous per se, but because the human body, once it starts suddenly getting lots of healthy raw food, goes into detox mode, and people already in ill-health might not survive the symptoms of a detox.I will grant you that one might eat raw animal food from an animal that has been eating very sick, unhealthy food, but the general rule is that you would just vomit afterwards, and it would be gone, either that or subsequent diarrhea.
Parasites are very rare in the RVAF diet community. This is because, in advanced countries, animals/fish etc. are carefully inspected prior to sale, plus the stomach-intestines are usually thrown away and not sold. Granted, if you live in Vietnam or similiar country, you might have a very rare chance of, for example, getting trichinosis from eating raw pork, but most countries would be fine.
I've been eating RVAF diets for over 15 years, and only once did I get parasites. These were harmless tapeworms which did not harm me, healthwise, generally. I got rid of them after some months only because they kept on popping out my anus even when I was not excreting, and the pieces thereof stank. I easily got rid of them by getting a prescription from my doctor. I think it was praziquantel. Took 2 days to remove the dead tapeworms via usual path.So, parasites are very rare, not necessarily harmful, and easily removeable via modern medicine.
2) No.
3) Go to a doctor.
4) Yes. I have heard of some RVAFers who got healthy even after eating raw intensively-farmed meat, but I suspect most would do far better on meat not raised on hormones/antibiotics etc.
5) Side-effects= occasional detox until you get well. After that, you will mostly only experience detox after eating cooked foods or toxic raw foods. No one bothers re cholesterol, it's not even a proven thing in conventional diet-circles. Basically, one has to experience RVAF diets personally before one realises that all the media-driven myths about RVAF diets are all wrong, whether it is the absurd notion that eating raw animal food is deadly within weeks, or whatever. It took me 3 years of going RVAF before I tried high-meats, because I was so scared of dying as a result, but found that the rotten-meat scares were also a load of nonsense.
6) Some of us eat high-meat stored over weeks/months with no problems.
7) I find I have to open vacuum-packed meat within 7 days at the most or the taste will be very nasty due to anaerobic bacteria activity. Best to open it days before, imo,
Yes. Nothing wrong with reading various gurus books on RVAF diets, but the trouble is that everyone is different, whether in terms of genetics or health-status, age etc., so all newbies have to experiment to see what works for them. In my own case, I found, over time, that I was allergic to even raw dairy, that raw coconut oil always gave me nasty stomach-aches, that I needed 10% minimum/50% maximum raw wildcaught seafood in my diet to feel the absolute best re energy/drive etc., and that raw wild game was far tastier than raw grassfed meats, and, imo, healthier.
That said, learning from others can help too. One thing that worked for me was to read every single post in the archives of various RVAF diet online forums and, that way, not only did I find answers to my questions but I even discovered answers to questions that I hadn't even thought of asking but should have..
