Poll: Does Raw Meat Gross You Out?

Does Raw Meat Gross You Out?

September 17, 2009

A fellow Sugar staffer recently shared stories about her raw meat woes. She can't look at — or touch — raw meat without getting grossed out and feeling nauseated. In particular, skin-on chicken makes her skin crawl, and the juice from red meat leaves her queasy. This got me to wondering: how many of you feel the same way?

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1 year 50 weeks

Raw fish doesn't bother me but raw chicken makes me want to cry, I feel it looks like what human meat would look like. Raw beef and pork I won't generally even buy. Maybe ground red meat for burgers but I wear a body suit condom practically to not get any bacteria on me. When i go past the butcher section of markets, I feel like I'm in the middle of an animal shoah! If someone else prepares and cooks it, I'm fine most of the time.

snarkypants 3 years 3 days

kind of. not like i feel nauseated or anything. and it's not because it was once a living, breathing creature. my uncle made me gut many a fish in my younger years. i think it's just the texture. plus i'm not a good cook, so i always get a bit anxious about not cooking it enough. most of the meals i make for myself are veggie, but i eat meat if others have prepared it :P

juicebox07 3 years 3 days

Raw hamburger grosses me out because it reminds me of worms.

3 years 25 weeks

I am a vegetarian wannabee. I can't cook meat that well without huge anxiety over the process. My cooking skills with meat are limited. If you don't handle it properly you run the risk of food poisoning. Temperatures have to be just right. Something about all that just doesn't sit right with me. And I have to agree, touching raw meat makes me want to gag.

3 years 25 weeks

It's disgusting. I'm a vegetarian but I do make meat for the rest of my family. Even when I ate meat, I hated touching raw ground meat, or taking the skin off chicken. And then you have to disinfect everything it touches. Ick!

3 years 33 weeks

Smacks83: "...if you can't touch it/look at it raw, then you shouldn't (and don't deserve) to eat it..... I can't stand people who don't like touching raw meat, or eating whole fish or whole whatever because it looks like the dead animal it is. " Wow, maybe you shouldn't be so judgmental of other people - saying you "can't stand" people based on how they feel about something is a little much. So if I don't like the feel of raw meat, I "don't deserve" to eat it? A little self-righteous, no?

lovelipgloss 3 years 34 weeks

I don't like touching it, but I do. What really bothers me is thinking about bacteria. I get out some diluted bleach spray when I'm done and I wash my hands in the hottest water I can stand. I still feel like I didn't clean well enough though!

Pink2022 3 years 34 weeks

mostly its only red meat, plus i never eat red meat coz i don't like the taste or texture- just chicken

AMP 3 years 34 weeks

I'm a vegetarian, but no, raw meat does not gross me out. Your fellow sugar girl sounds like a primadonna.

tlsgirl 3 years 34 weeks

Chicken and turkey totally gross me out, especially the skin. I don't usually eat it for this reason, but red meat doesn't bother me much. The only thing that skeeves me out is the smell of raw hamburger. I have to have my burger well done or I'm convinced I can smell it.

L0neLyHeArT 3 years 34 weeks

Raw meat grosses me out.

betty kraker 3 years 34 weeks

i use to love rare meat now its med rare

ms jamerz 3 years 34 weeks

The only raw meat that actually grosses me out to the point where I even try to avoid eating it cooked is raw ground meat. ew.

bethinabox 3 years 34 weeks

I'm not a big fan of steak as a food, so seeing it raw especially squicks me out. Chicken I can deal with, it's just red meat that I'm not a fan of. I'm sure once I actually start cooking more for myself I'll get over the red meat thing.

ellenp1214 3 years 34 weeks

i hate dealing with conventional, mass-produced meat. i hate thinking about the possible contamination; about the fact that parts of hundreds of cows went into that one package of ground beef; about the animals getting force fed corn and soybeans; about how the blood seeps out of the meat as it turns gray because its been sitting in the packaging for a week. all that stuff makes handling meat gross to me. but, i have no problem handling super fresh meat that comes from a source i trust and that i know was raised and killed humanely.

3 years 34 weeks

Just reading this/ seeing this picture gives me goosebumps

3 years 34 weeks

I don't have a problem with all meats, it is just some things. I used to be a hardcore vegetarian, and the blood that comes along with it still weirds me out. It is still a little difficult for me to know that I am eating animals, so I just try to put it out of my mind, but I cook it and I deal with it, and the reason I eat it is because I was really unhealthy when I was a vegetarian and I have become MUCH healthier since eating meat and would NEVER go back. If people don't like that, too bad, I just don't like to think that things died, bled and suffered for me to have a meal-the reason I was a vegetarian, so I like to get meat without skin, deal with as little raw meat as possible, and try not to deal with packaging that has blood in it. Its just creepy and thats how I feel.

RoaringSilence 3 years 34 weeks

I can handle it, but I don't think it's very pleasant. I avoid touching it as much as I can.. partly because I know it's more sanitary that way. For some strange reason, i can stick my hands in a raw turkey, but raw chicken makes me gag.

Spectra 3 years 34 weeks

Raw meat doesn't gross me out at all. I would have no problem butchering animals to eat them, like my grandma used to have to do when they had their farm. I deal with gross stuff at work all the time, so anything bloody/gross doesn't really bug me much.

Zulkey 3 years 34 weeks

beef, no, chicken, yes. however we boil chicken for our dog so I don't really have a choice, I get to handle it pretty often.

AmberHoney 3 years 34 weeks

As a country girl I have plenty of respect and knowledge about meat and have butchered my own chickens and ducks that I raised - that said I can't stand chicken skin and I don't like prepping the meat, poultry, fish, shellfish or other animals I eat - my hubby does all that work for me now. The worst part is all the fat. Happy Eating!

HoneyBrown1976 3 years 34 weeks

No, but, depending on the time of the month, the smell can bother me.

cubavalerie311 3 years 34 weeks

Raw meat really only grosses me out when I smell it. Touching it doesn't bother me. But the smell of it is starting to get to me so much I'm considering becoming a vegetarian.

cupcake_ 3 years 34 weeks

I hate touching or dealing with raw meat - but I do it anyways :)

CaterpillarGirl 3 years 34 weeks

doesnt bother me, in fact I eat raw ground beef all the time. Just be glad that we live in a society where you dont really have to handle raw meat at all if you dont want too, back in the day with that attitude you would have starved to death.....

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