this might sound gross, but is it ok to drink cows blood?

Question

because humans blood you can get diseases, but i read that cows blood is extremely healthy, like REALLY healthy. but Im sure it cant be risk free, so...... whats the risk? and if its ok, how should I do it?

because humans blood you can get diseases, but i read that cows blood is extremely healthy, like REALLY healthy. but Im sure it cant be risk free, so...... whats the risk? and if its ok, how should I do it? 2 more things, how can I tell if they have mad cow disease, (sorry if that sounds dumb, ive never seen a cow with MCD before) and if i boil the blood, will that be OK?

Answer 1

1. Please be utterly certain the cow is healthy. You will want to make sure it has not been on horomones.
2. Unless you are getting it fresh. As in from the cow directly, boil the blood.
3. You *should* be fine with about 2 liters worth of blood. More than this, and you could start risking iron poisioning.
4. If you have a doubt, just don't do it.

Answer 2

I don't think you should drink it - but make like a blood pudding. You could get lots of diseases from it. But you won't get any disease from it if you have just killed the cow a few seconds ago and then drank the blood, unless it was a really unhealthy cow.

Answer 3

It's done all the time. Africans do it a little bit at a time when they're thirsty; a lot at a time when a cow is butchered. Europeans cook with blood all the time.

Do make sure there are no PETA people hanging about though. Tends to get their knickers in a right twist.

Answer 4

There are many risk, they include any number of parasites, mad cow's disease, and food poisoning (the same thing you'd get if you eat undercooked beef), none of these are a sure thing, however you'd be much better off to never attempt drinking any creature's blood.

Answer 5

Anytime you eat a steak, or ground beef, etc., you are eating some cow's blood. The Masai tribe in Africa does this - and they are known as the tallest tribe on Earth. I recommend that YOU avoid this, however, as there really is no way to insure that it is not contaminated with E. Coli, or who knows what else, other than to boil it. Still, don't do it - go have a steak instead.

Answer 6

It's ok to drink/ cook and eat it, but I think there are some risks (which I'm unable to remember), but it's perfectly fine. I mean, I eat duck and pigs blood (cooked and tastes sooo amazing!) all the time and I'm perfectly healthy and in shape. And (to Jessica) isn't the pink in steak actually the blood that hasn't been fully cooked? When you eat steak, if you stick your fork into a piece of steak, a watery red liquid sometimes oozes out. That's the blood.

Answer 7

well...i eat my steaks so rare that most restaurants are startled by it. if i eat it fully cooked it hurts my stomach. *shrug*

i've not had any issues with it. and i've heard of some eating "blood pudding" and various things like that, i'd do that if you really needed to.

look, every animal on this planet has been "getting " diseases. not to let my paranoia lose here but, every food animal we have all now have some type of disease. seriously, pigs, chickens, sheep, cows, horses, fish, etc and so forth..so...you know what? i figure i will die eventually, might as well be happy while i am ehre and that includes thick RARE RARE RARE steaks, SUSHI & SASHIMI!

Answer 8

Bottoms up... the protein that gets misfolded causing mad cow disease is not part of the human makeup... we have our own.
There is no evidence that MCD effects humans, and in all truth it in all likelihood never will.

Answer 9

Chocolate Milk may sometimes contain traces of cows blood. That's why they make it into chocolate milk because it would otherwise look gross to sell it as regular milk. This is a proven fact by the way. And so many of us drink chocolate milk and really it doens't hurt you in any way.

Answer 10

Humans can contract Mad Cow disease from cows, so I would say no! Oh, and the pink in your steak is actually dye they inject the meat with to make it look more appetizing.