Legacy talk:Beef

Nothing odd in no HHP

There are many dishes in European cuisine which call for raw beef, to name some: carpaccio and tartare. Eating raw beef is much less dangerous than eating other raw meats because cattle is immune to majority of meat-transferred parazites which can infect humans, most notably the pork tapeworm (Taenia solium). Meat of carnivorous/omnivorous animals is extremely dangerous because their diet is meat-based/includes meat so the risk of them getting infected is much higher than in case of herbivores.

What is odd though is raw mutton giving HHP as the members of Bovidae family (which includes sheep, goats, capricorns, buffaloes, aurochsen, bisons and antelopes) are the only truly herbivorous domestic animals. Eating their raw meat is generally considered safe (but not always, the most important case being when they are held captive with animals from other families e.g. pigs because of contamination of eaten plants with their feces; goats are also known to show omnivorous behaviours and their meat is not eaten raw).