steak tartare and carpaccios are stapples of french and italian cuisine, both involve raw beef and can be eaten everywhere in those countries. the germans even do that with raw pork which is probably a thousand times more dangerous because of all the parasites and worms those can carry. still they found the way to make it safe. you can't get sick if the meat is handled properly and raw meat is delicious. now i would never attempt that in the us, getting rare meat there also is scary to me.
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