The whole issue re food-poisoning/parasites has already been discussed before on these forums. For 1 thing, as I pointed out previously, food-poisoning outbreaks only seem to occur in very old or very sick individuals with very poor health, generally health-problems gained while on SAD diets. Of course, that doesn't entirely explain why RPDers who start this diet with serious health-problems gained while on SAD, don't have such food-poisoning issues. The only suitable explanation is that bacteria plus high-quality raw foods is good, while bacteria plus low-quality cooked foods is bad.
The issue re parasites is more complex. The hygiene hypothesis states that being totally free of parasites is very bad for you as it encourages things like asthma/allergies, lowered immune-system etc. etc(indeed people in developing nations are in many ways healthier than the West precisely because they have parasites). Also, farmers so commonly deworm their animals that the chances of getting parasites is minimal. Then again, you have RVAFers like me who eat raw wild game as a large proportion of their diet, who similiarly report no issues re parasites. Now, either we are all infested with parasites and those parasites are either beneficial or have negligible effect, or the dangers re parasite-numbers in raw animal foods is very greatly exaggerated.
