What would happen if I ate a pack of raw chicken?

Question

Out of pure interest?

Answer 1

If you were able to keep it down, which I doubt, the answer to your question could range from nothing to salmonella which can range from inconvenient to fatal to a parasite infection that the ol' chicken had, to E. Coli from chicken feces that got mixed in the raw meat. There's more, but I'm tired after writing tonight's best run-on sentence.

Answer 2

You would probably feel fine for a few hours and then your stomach/body would cause you to throw up the raw chicken violently because it's like a poison and if your immune system can survive the salmonella onslaught then you should be ok in a couple days. If not you'll die.

Answer 3

You would most likely become very ill... For starters, approximately 30 percent of chicken is tainted with Salmonella and 62 percent with its equally virulent cousin, Campylobacter.

Time magazine calls raw chicken "one of the most dangerous items in the American home," and each year in the US alone, contaminated chicken kills at least 1,000 people while sickening as many as 80 million others.

It's no surprise really that chicken is decidedly foul. Desperately crowded factory farms--where more than 90 percent of US chickens and eggs are raised--are fertile breeding grounds for disease. Additionally, slaughterhouses do an excellent job of spreading pathogens from one bird to the next.

Answer 4

You sound like my 11 year old grandson. If you got the first piece down and didn't vomit, I would go for it. I wonder what makes people want to do things such as eat raw chicken?

Seriously, I would not chance it. If you want to, just chew a tiny bit of it. I watched "Wife Swap" or the other show where they trade spouses. One of the families only ate raw, uncooked meat. It almost made me vomit to watch them. They didn't die. That is how they lived. That form of eating is called something and I can't remember what it is right now. They were even eating raw animal livers.

Answer 5

Maybe nothing.

On the other hand, there are some health risks associated with raw chicken meat.

Everyone who cooks seems to be aware of the salmonella risk. In case you don't know, "Most persons infected with Salmonella develop diarrhea, fever, and abdominal cramps 12 to 72 hours after infection. The illness usually lasts 4 to 7 days, and most persons recover without treatment." - http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/salmonellosis_g.htm#What%20is%20salmonellosis

According to the US Centers for Disease Control, you might contract Campylobacteriosis: "Most cases of campylobacteriosis are associated with handling raw poultry or eating raw or undercooked poultry meat. A very small number of Campylobacter organisms (fewer than 500) can cause illness in humans. Even one drop of juice from raw chicken meat can infect a person." http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/dbmd/diseaseinfo/campylobacter_g.htm

What will Campylobacteriosis do to you? Well, from the same source "Most people who become ill with campylobacteriosis get diarrhea, cramping, abdominal pain, and fever within 2 to 5 days after exposure to the organism. The diarrhea may be bloody and can be accompanied by nausea and vomiting. The illness typically lasts 1 week. Some persons who are infected with Campylobacter don't have any symptoms at all. In persons with compromised immune systems, Campylobacter occasionally spreads to the bloodstream and causes a serious life-threatening infection. "

As if that isn't appetizing enough, this paper produced by Australian government research in 1999 (http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:XRlitljMK04J:www.safefood.qld.gov.au/docs/chicken.pdf+%22raw+chicken%22+risks&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us)
tells of E. coli (fecal contamination) and Listeria Monocytogenes.

So what is E. coli/fecal contamination and why should you care? I’ll let this fact sheet from the University of Kansas do the talking: http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/ecoli.html E. coli seems to be more commonly associated with hamburger meat.

http://vm.cfsan.fda.gov/~mow/chap6.html is the link to the US Food & Drug Administration’s “Bad Bug Book” enty on Listeria. Listeria Monocytogenes causes a delightful little malady known as “listeriosis.” And what does listeriosis do to you? “The manifestations of listeriosis include septicemia, meningitis (or meningoencephalitis), encephalitis, and intrauterine or cervical infections in pregnant women, which may result in spontaneous abortion (2nd/3rd trimester) or stillbirth. The onset of the aforementioned disorders is usually preceded by influenza-like symptoms including persistent fever. It was reported that gastrointestinal symptoms such as nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea may precede more serious forms of listeriosis or may be the only symptoms expressed. Gastrointestinal symptoms were epidemiologically associated with use of antacids or cimetidine. The onset time to serious forms of listeriosis is unknown but may range from a few days to three weeks.” If you enjoy horror stores, read a little bit more on that one.

I do hope that you have enjoyed our little trip down “Foodborne Illness Lane.” Personally, I’ll be cooking my chicken well-done.

Best of luck to you, and good, healthy eating.

Answer 6

you would probably get salmonella which is very common in raw chicken (because when plucking feathers from chickens they are smashed, which litterally smashes the crap out of them which caries the salmonella which then gets on the next chicken down the line.... yummy.

Answer 7

You'd be eating something that was swimming in its own fecal (s***) soup during processing and that can not possibly be thoroughly cleaned without cooking. Mm, mm, good!
(You must really be bored).

Answer 8

Sounds like somebody needs to take a cooking class. lol Try it out you might like it.

Answer 9

You would get very sick, most likely. Unless of course you have a stomach of steel!

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Answer 10

Hopefully Darwin was correct.