@Tyler I guess in that case I would choose to eat elsewhere.  They'll lose sales.

I hate this. I really feel like all English-speaking Western civilizations are becoming tyrannical and this is just another example.

I'm from the US and basically, there is no legal system defending people's freedom anymore.

This case with sv3rige is a marketing game; it won't be won in the courts.  Who has the most posters and likes on Facebook/internet?  Vegans - they win.

The direct approach that he tried doesn't always work, as this proves.  Rocks are worn down by water.  Be like water.  You have to approach things indirectly, deviously. 

I hope the site allows me to post this link to "Meningitis by Toxocara canis after ingestion of Raw Ostrich Liver" appearing in the Journal of Korean Medical Science.  (Evil site would not allow me to post this with the link, so just do a google search for it.)

Really interesting - mom and dad and their son all ate raw ostrich liver (presumably from the ostrich farm that the parents run).  The parents did not get sick but the son did.  However, the parents blood serum showed an antigen to T. canis despite their being symptom-free.

So this is supporting the idea that just because a virus/bacteria/parasite is present, it doesn't necessarily cause disease.  If it did, then the parents would also be sick. 

Any ideas why two people would have the parasite and not get sick while the son got sick? 

It makes me think of the Herpes virus.  I think that almost everyone has the Herpes 1 infection (cold sores) but most of the time everyone lives with it symptom free.

@Fat of the Land/Surfsteve -

I'm able to get liver in 3 different ways - one is frozen, one is vacuum packed, and one is from the farmer's market.  I've tried all of them raw; the one that was previously frozen and one that is vacuum packed both taste horrible raw.  I can't recall how the farmer's market one tasted...I think it was not much different from the others (except I noted it was a darker color) and just because it was from a farmer's market doesn't mean it was pasture raised (if you ask any of the farmers here they simply say "yes" because they know it sells better, and these farmers markets sell items from farms that could be 1.5 hours away...). 

These were all beef liver, not calf.  I agree with you that there is probably more accumulation of metals in an older animal, but I don't think it would be sustainable to eat only calf liver instead of the adult beef liver.  I can't imagine hunter-gatherers using their energy to catch a smaller animal with less meat, and ideally it would be capable of reproducing in the future to replenish the supply. 

I'll keep searching to find better sources within budget and focus on other things in the meantime.

This is happening to the Quechua in South America as well.  The government sells the villagers' lands to corporations that only speak Spanish and then the villagers lose their independent, self-sufficient way of living and become dependent on the corporation, learning the corporation's language, etc.  All the wisdom of their ancestors will be lost and they will be forced to be wage slaves to purchase what they previously wrought with their own hands and minds.  Truly terrible.

I was researching it last night and apparently, the only way that the bubonic plague is diagnosed is by the presence of this bacteria (yersinia) in body fluids.  They should take blood samples of the people who ate the wild rodent but didn't get bubonic plague. I bet they would find the bacteria in the people who didn't get sick as well.  Then that would knock back the theory of germ-induced disease.  I bet they didn't take any samples from the healthy people.  Why aren't they more thorough?

It also reminded me of something - I once read a chapter from a book called "Survival of the Sickest."  It said that most people of Western European descent developed a mutation that helped them survive the plague.  The mutation, however, results in a disease called hemochromatosis - this is excessive iron in the blood.  But somehow this disease helped Europeans survive the plague, so it is passed down to people today who are of Western European descent.  The ones who died from eating the wild meat that had the yersinia bacteria - did they have European ancestry?  Or another ancestry that didn't develop the mutation to help survive the plague?

Tyler, what do you think of this?

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