Can You Eat Raw Chicken & Eggs? @truongsauce

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0:00 Hey, what's up? As requested, I'm going to be reviewing a video called Can you actually draw chicken and eggs safely?

[video] 0:21 Let's see if I get diarrhea.

0:25 Diarrhea is part of your body's detoxification system, meaning that if toxins enter your gut, then you will get diarrhea, maybe you will vomit, depending on how severe it is, and then you will get rid of the toxins as quickly as possible.

[video] 0:53 Except, I'm in Japan, where raw eggs are typically eaten for breakfast.

0:56 So, I should- Do the Japanese actually eat raw eggs for breakfast? I've never heard of that, but if so, that's great.

[video] 1:05 In the US, 1.35 million people get infected by salmonella every year, sending thousands of people to the hospital.

1:11 Yes, except that to this day we still don't have any proof for that. That salmonella itself actually causes disease, food poisoning, which makes no sense. Because the term itself tells you that you get poisoned, which means that you consume toxins. That's why it's called food poisoning.

1:38 It doesn't say food, bacteria, poisoning, anything like that. There's no connection to bacteria.

[video] 1:48 And the biggest culprits, undercooked meat, like chicken, eggs, and unpasteurized milk. In fact, 125,000 people.

1:56 Yeah, and that again makes no sense because it's not as if chickens, it's just a bird, are somehow different than cows, goats. It's different animals, but there's nothing inherently bad about them, as if it's more risky to eat them. It is today. because of the way they are farmed, because they are overmedicated, they get horrible food and it's smaller animals, meaning that they suffer even more. That's all true. And that's why you can get food poisoning from probably

2:34 maybe most chickens today if you would eat the organs more so I don't think that most eggs today should be consumed raw they are really bad because it's the potential or could have been of course not the way they are created today child of the chicken which is why

3:00 if you have such a small animal and it's already sick and poisoned and then it lays eggs it's too concentrated people get salmonella from chicken alone each year that's fevers explosive diarrhea and projectile vomit for a Yeah, except that you can try to link it, try to build a correlation between salmonella, whatever bacteria you want, and these symptoms, but you can never actually prove it. You cannot prove that they cause it. You can say that you find more of this bacteria in the gut when you get poisoned, and then you try to draw a correlation between the two. But you could take anything from the gut and try to say that that's what caused it. That's not proof of cause, causation. It's proof that it's there.

3:55 Why it's there, if it's actually trying to help you, that's something that people don't really talk about. It's the same as blaming cholesterol for clogged arteries, even though cholesterol is made by the body. The bacteria already live inside of your body, in your gut. Can you then blame it for being poisoned? Would you get diarrhea or would you vomit because of bacteria or because you consumed something poisonous? And that's why you vomit. You try to get it out. I'm not even talking about proof right now. There is no proof for bacteria causing it anyway. But purely logically, what do you think? Would you get diarrhea and vomit because of toxins, poison, or bacteria, which is already inside of you? Just purely logically.

[video] 4:47 Few days. Eating raw eggs in the US could mess you up. But in Japan, it's a little bit different.

[video] 4:58 In 2011, Japan did a nationwide test of over 100,000 eggs and found the rate of salmonella for the eggs was 0.003%, which is freaking low. On top of that, since 2015, there was zero to two cases of salmonella.

5:11 They mean on top of the eggs, I suppose. I found a study online. As far as I understand, it is talking about the shell. which makes sense because there can be feces on the egg outside which means that of course there could also be all kinds of bacteria but seeing as the japanese treat them differently they didn't find them Not a surprise. Doesn't really have anything to do with food poisoning. But whatever, let's move on.

[video] 5:46 003%, which is freaking low. On top of that, since 2015, there was zero to two cases of salmonella food poisoning each year from eggs. Yes, even the raw ones. So how's this even happening?

[video] 6:00 There's two ways eggs can get salmonella on the shelf or inside the egg. If the mother gets infected, usually through her environment, salmonella can make its way into her ovaries.

6:09 This actually just shows an absolute disconnection from nature because they believe that there's bacteria out there roaming around, lurking, wanting to infect animals as if that's how nature works.

6:31 How can you even believe that? Then animals would constantly get infected in nature and just somehow mysteriously die and nobody would understand what's going on. Oh my God, man.

[video] 6:47 It's a long tedious process to keep that from happening. Salmonella infected hens are identified and removed from the flock. Hens are vaccinated against salmonella. Good bacteria are added to the chicken feed called competitive exclusion. That bacteria outcompetes the salmonella in the gut of the chicken.

7:00 The chickens just look a lot healthier than the chickens in the so-called western farms.

[video] 7:07 Feed, environment, and water systems are kept clean. And most importantly, they follow something called an HACCP system, a strict cleanliness and monitoring program with regular testing built in. And to keep salmonella off eggshells, Japan uses an insane amount of technology in order to do that at scale. Eggs are collected and washed rapidly after being laid. There's a lot of eggs in the US which actually get pasteurized before they are sold.

7:47 That's how crazy it is today. All because of something which still hasn't even been proven. It's such a joke.

[video] 7:57 Eggs are regularly tested and sorted.

7:59 But it would help the pasteurization if the eggs would have the toxins inside of them. That's the thing. That's what cooking does. Heat. It neutralizes and destroys toxins. Yeah.

[video] 8:16 Once safe to eat raw, go to the grocery stores while lower grade eggs are marked for cooking for commercial use. The eggs have shorter expiration dates to ensure freshness, but they can vary between.

8:26 Yeah, that's exactly why people get away with eating factory farmed animals today. Some people even eat horrible quality liver, but because they cook it so much and they add onions or something acidic to it, they get away with the toxins because that can neutralize and destroy them. Otherwise, how would we be eating the meat that we eat today? The chicken that most people eat? Horrible quality could easily get food poisoning from the garbage.

[video] 9:02 They last longer during colder months and shorter during the hotter months. And each carton is labeled with where it came from down to the supplier and lot number. So if something does go wrong, it can be traced back instantly. Regulatory bodies like the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare, known as the MHLW, set and enforce strict standards for safety and quality. So what does raw egg actually taste like when it's treated this carefully?

[video] 9:28 I went to a restaurant where they had all-you-could-eat tamago kake gohan, raw eggs mixed with rice, where they gave you as many raw eggs as you wanted to eat. It's all sourced from different farms with different chickens with all sorts of eggs, from double egg yolks to pure white eggs to eggs with different flavors.

9:40 White eggs? I've never heard of that. That is interesting. Let me know if you know about it. If you have tried them, how do they taste?

[video] 9:51 You just crack it over some rice, season it with soy sauce and whatever toppings you have around you, and eat it with soup and some seaweed.

10:06 That's the difference between them and other Asians. Rice is just sugar and arsenic. It's slave food. And actually, the Japanese never used to eat it up until the famines came around. But at least they add raw eggs and raw beef and whatever to it. Whereas the rest of the Asians, for the most part, except for the Koreans maybe, who are increasing in height a lot in the last decades, they also, of course, add a lot of raw animal foods to them, but the rest just add vegetables and super overcooked meat to it and whatever, just garbage.

[video] 10:46 Slimy food is really the best food. Brain, even liver, everything natural, fresh from an animal could be called slimy.

11:14 Even blood can be called kind of slimy When it coagulates for sure anyway, but even when it's fresh restaurant food that you would eat It's just something you would eat for breakfast at home like cracking an egg over already cooked rice It's like a perfect way to like have a meal.

[video] 11:28 Yeah, because it's really not that much effort And it's something you can do every morning very easily gives you a little bit of protein a little bit of fat some nutrients To start your day. So then if raw eggs are safe, then is raw chicken safe, too

[video] 11:42 Well, it's complicated. First, we're going to answer why eating raw food in Japan is important in the first place. In a lot of Japanese households, the belief is that foods need to be eaten raw, then grilled, and then boiled. The freshest ingredients deserve to be eaten raw because it's closest to its purest form, its truest taste. Japanese cooking tends to use fewer strong spices, not because it lacks flavor, but because the natural taste of the ingredient is highly valued. And seasoning is often subtle, designed to reveal, not mask what's already there.

12:04 on top of that for about a thousand yeah not mask exactly man the japanese are so great when it comes to food because uh if something tastes bad it's bad quality meat eggs you overcook it you destroy it then you try to mask the taste a lot when you eat closer to nature you don't of course because you're tasting the food the way it really is that's why they don't do it awesome

[video] 12:34 Yeah, that's what I was saying actually in a different video.

12:49 I said that I believe that maybe they eat more raw meat than probably most people on Earth maybe in Ethiopia they also eat a lot there's a lot of countries where people still do but in Japan there's a big focus on it it's because when a population was starved literally and especially from beef for a long time maybe some other kinds of meat also then of course you really want to eat tons of raw meat raw red meat raw beef they also eat and just anything because

13:29 they were starved and then they just wanted it so much it makes a lot of sense people who were on a vegan diet also oftentimes start eating raw meat afterwards a lot of raw meat eaters are ex-vegans because of how starved they were it all makes a lot of sense just relatively recently so what happens when you take this deep respect for raw ingredients and apply it to something like

[video] 13:55 I've been seeing a lot of vloggers and influencers rave about Torisashi, or chicken sashimi, saying that it's safe to eat and it's really tasty. So, I looked into it. In Kagoshima, the southern tip of Japan, Torisashi is a regional specialty. People proudly eat their raw pieces of chicken here, but there are special precautions that are taken here to make sure the chicken is safe to eat. In 2012, a Torisashi Safety Council was formed in Kagoshima and Miyazaki to set hygiene standards for raw chicken. Equipment is sanitized properly. Since most of the bacteria is on the digestive tract of the chicken, it is carefully inspected and removed. Doing a special searing killed the bacteria on the outside. Yeah, that's funny because back when I started eating raw meat, I have a video about this, I got food poisoning. At the time, I didn't know anything about it, which is why

14:51 I just believed what the doctor told me that it's from the Campylobacter. Only months later, I understood that I ate bone marrow from toxic animals. I understood later only that when the animal cannot get rid of toxins, it stores it in the bones and bone marrow. Yeah, but when you don't know anything about it, you just kind of believe it. Even though really, why would you get nausea, vomiting and diarrhea from bacteria? How would that even work? Bacteria? It's always literally a response to poison. But somehow we nowadays believe that bacteria causes that. Yeah, but I'm just saying I understand it. I've been there.

15:45 Yeah, and also to believe that it leads to nerve damage and paralysis, bacteria. It turned out that in my case, I had botulism, essentially Botox. It's a toxin, which is what people inject in their forehead and wherever to sort of paralyze those parts, the muscles, for a period anyway.

16:14 Yeah, I had the same thing, but it's literally a toxin, yet we believe that bacteria causes it. Yeah, really messed up. I then understood that you need to get food from very good farms or butchers, which you trust. Never had a problem since. It's been almost 10 years of eating raw meat. I eat bone marrow, everything. It's all fine, but you just need to understand that that's it. Yeah.

[video] 16:47 ...contamination in two types of chicken. Chicken sold at specialty Torisashi shops in Kagoshima, the region famous for its raw chicken sashimi, and regular supermarket chicken meant for cooking. What they found was kind of surprising. 46 out of 61, or 77%, of Torisashi shops had campylobacter levels below detectable limits, which you won't get sick from. Only 14 out of 46 samples from the supermarket chicken met that same standard.

17:10 I don't recommend it, but I have eaten raw chicken from supermarkets. I think it was from Rewe in Germany. The German people will know it. The organic chicken there. And the butcher that I always went to in Germany, I always bought raw chicken from him. It was the best chicken I've ever had in my life. And when I was in France, when I did a meeting there and also other times I ate raw chicken, everybody was eating raw chicken there. None of us had a problem. Those are super tasty, good chickens, though. Really, some of actually not some of the best I've ever had in my life.

17:53 The chicken that I had in L.A. when I was eating the raw chicken at the vegan market, that was also super nice. I think it cost like $50 or maybe $80. I don't know. It cost a lot for the whole chicken. Yeah, it was very expensive. It was some special kind of chicken, I think from an Amish farm in Pennsylvania or something, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah, the taste alone just told me right away that it's good. But most chicken today from factory farms, forget about it.

[video] 18:30 Campylobacter is naturally inside of all animals, as far as I know. For sure humans and chickens.

19:00 It will always be there, obviously, because it's naturally part of the animal. The whole thing is so stupid, it's almost unbelievable. But then again, as I said, I've been there. I'll link my video about bacteria and parasites in the description. Most of you have seen it, but for people who are new to my channel, you can learn more about it in that video.

[video] 19:22 ...matter when you were eating it raw. One limitation of the study is that it only looked at Campylobacter. Not other bacteria like E. coli, salmonella. That is also common in raw meat.

19:32 Yeah, because it's naturally part of the animals. That's why it's common. Because all animals, as far as I know, have them. All animals are full of bacteria. Which ones? Okay, that may differ. I don't know.

[video] 19:45 also come from the chicken's digestive tract, capybobacter poses a higher risk at lower doses. The problem is that operating procedures for slaughterhouses are not standardized across the country, at least for chicken that's eaten raw. They do have a 20-sashi association, but that's more like general guidelines rather than laws. And some shops, especially in urban areas that don't have access to these chickens, they use chicken that's meant to be cooked for chicken sashimi. This isn't always the case, but it's still reported to happen every once in a while. The best way to avoid being sick is just cook your meat all the way before eating it. But for the people who actually want to try this, here's some guidelines. Absolutely don't try to make this at home. The chicken that is used are specially made for this. Eat it at reputable restaurants. I was really surprised to see it at supermarkets all over Kyushu, just casually there. But even those had warnings all over it. Eat in Kyushu, which is the most southern region of Japan. Even better if it's Kagoshima or Miyazaki, where torisashi is the regional specialty. Your safest bet would probably be going to one of the restaurants that are listed on the Torisashi Association website, where they all agree to follow all the standards and safety practices that help keep the chicken safe. Avoid it if you're a young child, elderly, pregnant, or immunocompromised. Once you get it, don't let it sit out, eat it as soon as possible, don't give the bacteria time to multiply.

[video] 20:43 Don't eat too much of it because there's still a chance of it having bacteria on it that are within normal limits for that serving size, but if you overeat, you can still get sick from it. Eating raw chicken is definitely riskier than eating raw eggs. People still get sick from eating raw eggs, but...

20:53 Funny how much he talks about bacteria, yet, as I said, it has never been proven. It's a completely religious belief, that's all that it is. You just religiously believe that you get sick because of bacteria.

[video] 21:08 never been proven zero evidence literally nothing that's how people are today but again as i said i get it definitely a lot less and it's way more regulated across the entire country chicken is more of a you know i'm gonna volunteer to keep these safety standards in a small group so knowing all this would you try it

[video] 21:36 It's hard not to want to eat everything here. When everything is prepared so carefully, with such attention to detail, it pulls you in. You just want to be part of it. That's the beautiful thing about being human. We come together to make meaning through celebration, safety, and culture. But culture also hands us assumptions, quietly, without us realizing. And sometimes those assumptions clash. Not because anybody's wrong, but because no culture has all the answers. Now that I've lived halfway across the world from my home, I find myself wondering what else I've never questioned. Sometimes clarity doesn't come from finding the answer. but from realizing the questions we've never asked.

[video] 22:12 Okay, we finally made it. We had to try, like, three different shops just to get this torisashi. And this is raw chicken. I'm gonna eat it. It was really good. It looked so good. Like, this plating is amazing. There's warnings on the menu that says, like, be careful if you're, like, not feeling well. So, you know, they take precautions here to, like, warn you about the raw chickens and the concerns of eating raw chicken. Chicken breast.

22:33 The thing is that the meat is also so lean If anything typically you would get food poisoning from the fat in the case of chicken from the skin the fat under the skin That's typically where an animal stores toxins That's why Getting it from lean chicken like that, which is I think cooked on the outside anyway. It's not completely raw, that's what I mean. Not that it really matters. Would be really unlikely.

[video] 23:13 I'm so mad that I can't have chicken breast like this all the time. If I could have chicken breast like this all the time, I would be so ripped. I would be so happy to eat chicken breast. Chicken breast is like the driest thing on the planet.

23:26 Yeah, I've never tried eating chicken breast. Yeah, it's dry because people overcook it. I have, I guess, but what I mean is that typically when I ate raw chicken, I did eat it a lot. I ate the legs, the fat. That's what tasted good. Chicken breast, the lean breast, doesn't sound appealing.

[video] 23:51 If you don't cook it right. If you just eat it raw, it's so much better. So it's kind of chewy.

23:57 Yeah, nice realization, man. Of course. That's what I always say in my videos. The way people overcook it, eat this lean piece of chicken, super dry.

[video] 24:10 If you have ever had tuna sushi before, it's chewier than that. But it doesn't have like a chicken flavor to it. All of it's kind of like seared around the edges. The surface of the meat is cooked. And here's thigh. It has some raw chicken skin too.

[video] 24:24 That's really good. So since the diet was cut a little bit thicker, it was a little bit chewy and the skin kind of had like the smoky tart flavor to it. I kind of like that. And that's really freaking delicious. Not a lot of chicken flavor going through, but it's, I mean, it's just more moist. None of the moisture is like cooked out of it. So it's really tasty. And this is liver. I'm a little scared about this one because the innards is where the bacteria is, but you know.

24:45 Oh my God, man. Bacteria. No, man. If the animal is sick, then the liver will be really bad. That's why the liver has to come from very healthy animals. I've never really had good chicken liver. I've eaten chicken liver a lot throughout the years, but... none of it tasted really good it always had some kind of bitterness or something no not true actually I did have a chicken from a small Farm now that I think of it but it was so small obviously it slipped my mind typically if you buy a lot of them they have never been good give it to me on a plate and yeah I'm just gonna try it

25:29 Actually, yeah, now that I think about it, chicken liver is pretty sweet and yummy when it's from a fresh animal from a local farm where they don't do anything to them, they just let them roam around. Obviously, the way it naturally should be, as it should be from any healthy animal.

[video] 25:49 That...

[video] 25:52 Damn. If I get sick later, that's kind of worth it. that's kind of worth it that was like the most tender piece of meat it has this really unique kind of like sweetness to it man this guy is totally promoting raw meat I don't know if it's intentional or not and it does have a slight hint of like this chicken flavor to it

26:16 Yeah, it's raw meat, that's how it should be, that's how food should be. I think that people are actually gonna be curious and will try eating more raw meat because of this guy. he should do ads for the restaurant or something for japanese raw meat because the way he describes it you just want to try it a bit of chew chewier than a piece of fish but it's velvety smooth going down so i think liver is my favorite but it's the sketchiest piece oh nice yeah liver is really good man liver is probably the tastiest food on earth Although oysters are also really nice. It's hard to say, but I can eat so much liver at once. Oh my God.

27:14 I'm salivating right now just thinking about it. Just had it last evening. I ate tons of liver. I want it again.

[video] 27:20 The meat to eat. Yeah, I'm gonna finish this. And I am... I wish we could have raw chicken, like, regularly. I really enjoy this. So... See ya, have a good day.

27:32 What a surprisingly pleasant video. As I said, the way he was talking about raw meat was as if he was making an advertisement for it. Maybe it will really actually make people curious and they will at least try some restaurants and buying your own chicken and eating it raw from the supermarket is not a good idea. Chicken breast doesn't have any fat, but eating chicken wings, the legs with the skin and the fat raw from factory farmed animals is a bad idea. Because as I said, they are over-medicated, they get horrible food, which is not natural for the animals. It's just about as bad as it can get. That's why people grill it, fry it.

28:28 they destroy and neutralize the toxins as I said and then it's kind of safe to eat it although I think that sometimes people still get sick from it if they don't cook it enough but today people believe that it's because they didn't destroy all the bacteria as if somehow bacteria are just lurking somewhere wanting to make you sick as if bacteria can cause diarrhea it can make you vomit which is literally a response to toxicity it can even damage your nerves and paralyze you bacteria how would bacteria even do that all of these people who believe that they couldn't even explain it how do they paralyze you We only have proof that toxins do that. There's actually proof for that. That bacteria somehow poison you?

29:27 Never been proven. No evidence whatsoever. Thanks for watching.