On Jul 19, 6:44 am, Scott > wrote:
> When a steak is cook rare or medium rare isn't the pink meat in the
> middle not good for you since it appears to be not fully cook? That's
> one of the reasons I always order my steaks well-done. And if they bring
> it to me with pink in the middle I send it back.

Meat has no pathogens in its flesh unless it came from a sick animal
and even then the muscle meat that we consume would not normally be
contaminated. Contamination in grinding meat for hamburger or sausage
comes from spills from the intestine during slaughter. If the
slaughter process is not done well the carcass could be contaminated,
then meat from that contaminated carcass when ground up mixes the
contamination throughout the ground meat.

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