NO, raw pork is not harmful. The whole hysteria behind trichinosis is ridiculous, especially since all western domesticated animals are routinely dewormed all the time, even organic ones. Plus, I've been eating wild meats such as wild boar/wild hare etc. for years without any side-effects, so I think it's all a load of nonsense. I might be more worried if I were eating a cooked-diet and was living in the tropics with only access to potentially- contaminated cooked-meats, but otherwise it's not an issue I worry about. There is a small segment of the raw-animal-food community who are so obsessed with the issue of parasites that they waste days on freezing meats(for 14 days) , take all sorts of unnecessary medication versus parasites etc., and, IMO, this is all simply due to hypochondria and doesn't lead to greater health, given the obsessiveness of it all.
