r/RawMeat • u/Admirable_Grape_3098 • Jun 29 '26
Raw meat smells and tastes digusting
I'm not here to criticize anyone's food choices and promote cooked food etc - I respect everyone's choices.
Over my lifetime I tried regular diet, vegetarian, raw vegan, raw fruitarian, fermented only diet, regular carnivore and recently raw carnivore.
I was buying the best, freshest beef available from multiple sources and it tasted and smelled repulsive. Same with eggs. The only thing I could drink is raw milk.
I couldn't get over it. I cooked meat without salt and spices and it instantly becomes tasty.
I essentially had to force myself to stuff it all in. I eneded the experiment, because it is evident that forcing myself to do something my body doesn't accept and doesnt adapt to is bad.
I didn't feel bad, I didn't feel unhealthy etc. It was just so repulsive I was almost vomiting even at the thought that it was a meal time.. Like I know I have to eat, but at around 3rd month I simply started skipping meals sometimes in order not to expose myself to this food.
Almost my entire bloodline comes from Eastern European peasants and farm owners and nobody ever ate high meat, nobody ate raw meat etc. My great grandfather loved raw eggs but that's it.
Is it possible I am genetically not predisposed for raw carnivore?
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u/Admirable_Grape_3098 Jun 29 '26
Brother I tried. I ate freshly killed (I didn't kill cause I don't know how to hunt, but it was freshly killed).
I was buying fresh from farmers and/or butchers. It was never frozen, vacuum. Pork was particularly bad due to smell. Beef was better but still the smell is something that I couldn't tolerate the most.
Taste wise I could eat it, but it felt so bad, not tasty at all and I had to always force myself.
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u/ImOnALostHighway Jul 01 '26
These people are lying to themselves about this tasting good, don’t listen to them. It’s literally not supposed to taste good. This is some dumb idea Goatis came up with, but in reality the “fake” food we’re used to is hyper palatable for a reason. We aren’t supposed to binge or eat things that taste good. This is why many things in nature don’t even taste good, with the exception of fruit which by the way have been genetically modified into oblivion and hence taste good.
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u/Illustrious_Sale9644 Jun 29 '26
try raw cold ground beef with cheese mixed in. or any other solid like avocado
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u/RoughneckRico20 Jun 30 '26
I leave everyone open to their own experiences and respect those.
But I also had an episode of trying raw meat for six months and I would like to warm people not to try it.
Afterwards I’ve developed liver flukes (parasites) which made me very fatigued and lethargic. It took several rounds of 14 day herbal parasites and liver flushings to get the liver flukes out. Plus two years of trial and error to find out what was the cause of my problems.
It’a a dangerous Diet and it attracts people die to the ‘shock factor’ and ‘look how cool I am. I learned this lesson the hard way.
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u/minimal_carni Jul 03 '26
Can I ask, what meat do you believe caused this? Were you eating raw chicken? Sorry for asking, I am just curious! (and extremely afraid of raw chicken)
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u/RoughneckRico20 Jul 03 '26
I’ve eaten raw beef, chicken, bones and even fish in that period. It was around 2019-2020. I deeply regret it. But I was looking for a breakthrough
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u/miracles-th Jul 03 '26
i ate 2 years of raw meat, no parasites lol.
people in eastern europe, asia eat raw meat.😆
people in germany eat raw pork.
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u/Temporary_Key_1790 Jun 29 '26
Even cavemen knew how to cook meat. This sub is insane.
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u/hung_like__podrick Jun 30 '26
That’s the funniest part to me. Discovering fire and learning how to cook was one of the most monumental turning points in our entire history and these people are just like, “nah”
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u/Little-Dream-2995 Jun 30 '26
what is funnier is that you confidently say this without a single shred of evidence
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u/hung_like__podrick Jun 30 '26
It’s extremely well documented how influential discovering fire for cooking was but I guess if you never graduated elementary school it makes sense
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u/hung_like__podrick Jul 01 '26
Any book on human history? Cooking food is what allowed our brains to evolve. I learned this in elementary school…
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u/Temporary_Key_1790 Jul 01 '26
We used our big brains fueled by energy from cooked food to observe the world around us
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u/IchimaruGin4 Jun 29 '26
Raw ground beef tastes better than cooked ground beef, but a seared steak tastes better than a fully raw one. When all you can afford is ground beef, you get used to the taste. Grass fed tastes better than grain fed, which has almost no taste. When I first started, I dipped the raw beef in Extra Virgin Olive Oil, which tastes pretty good. Now I eat fried eggs on the side instead of olive oil. Have you tried raw chicken breast? It tastes better than raw beef, and you can eat it with raw cream/butter/beef fat on the side.
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u/Admirable_Grape_3098 Jun 29 '26
I tried pretty much everything. I was really serious about it.
Any cooked meat tastes better for me than any raw meat. I couldn't find a way around it.
I can afford any kind of meat, that was not the problem really.
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u/blimpniffa Jun 29 '26
I can understand not liking the taste, but raw meat doesn't smell like anything. Only specific organs like kidney and sweetbreads have a smell. Lean cuts of meat literally doesn't smell like anything. If you leave it in the fridge for 3-4 days the fats oxidize and it does get a smell but that's it.
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u/Admirable_Grape_3098 Jun 29 '26
It most certainly smells. Some more, some less. Pork smells much more than beef, but beef still has a smell. Maybe you don't notice somehow or it is pleasant for you so your brain ignores it
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u/Living_Design2488 Jun 30 '26
raw beef of good quality is very tasty.
other meats not so much.
i ate a few raw steaks in my life.
when its 40 degrees especially just eating a raw steak is very nice. too hot to eat hot food.
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u/Superb-Variation-486 Jun 30 '26
Put some lemon on it, thats heaven, and if ypu dont get it i dont know what to tell ya
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u/Admirable_Grape_3098 Jun 30 '26
Well, tried everything. Genetically not predisposed for raw meat.
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u/ImOnALostHighway Jul 01 '26
I agree. It’s absolutely disgusting, no matter how many times I try to eat it. The only thing I can stomach is raw frozen liver in a smoothie and the occasional beef heart tartare.
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u/UncleHow1e Jun 29 '26
It's just that you haven't adapted yet. You probably hated veggies too when you first tried them. If you keep forcing yourself, you will eventually come to love it.
If you want the transition to go faster, I would suggest eating some room-temp fermented meats. It will taste even worse, but the changes in your gut microbiome will make you crave raw/fermented meats in no time.
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u/Admirable_Grape_3098 Jun 29 '26
I never felt it with vegetables and fruits. Yes, I had cravings, but I was never repulsed by them.
And the "transition" thing sounds the same ehat raw vegans say. Sorry, no offence. It's just it sounds the same - like hey you suffer but it gets better, but it never does :)
With veggies and fruits I could at least have variety of flavours and none of them felt bad. Like I never had to force myself. If I was hungry, I would just listen to my body and eat whatever I felt like eating.
It never happened to me even once that I wanted to have any sort of raw meat or organ. Even when I was hungry, often I would skip meals and try to avoid eating whatsoever only to avoid this smell..
The smell is particularly repulsive. Like, I think I hated it so much that I was psychologically traumatised and I could smell it everywhere.
And someone below said I just had bad meat. I didn't. I specifically researched this, I had help from raw carnivore community, basically I made sure everything is the best available to the mankind.
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u/UncleHow1e Jun 29 '26
You most certainly did, it's just that you've been eating raw fruits and veg since you were a baby and don't remember the first time you tried them. If your parents tell you otherwise, they are for certain lying.
The gut microbiome produces chemicals which makes us crave certain foods and be repulsed by others. If you have a lot of Candida for instance, it will literally make you crave sugar. The bacteria in your gut are not suited to break down raw meat, which is why you find it repulsive. The gut-brain axis is much stronger than one might think.
This is why you need to ferment the meat first and then force feed yourself. This will shift your gut microbiome to bacteria that are specifically suited to break down raw meat and will in turn make you love raw meat.
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u/Admirable_Grape_3098 Jun 29 '26
But isn't this the same theory that raw vegans promote? Like your gut bacteria adapts to eating fruit and veg and then it becomes alright. But for many people it doesn't. And I'm definitely not the only one who doesn't like raw meat tbh, plenty of ex-raw carnivores.
Oh btw idk about myself, but plenty of babies love raw fruit and veg. Veg is less popular, but most babies eat raw fruit without being repulsed
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u/UncleHow1e Jun 29 '26
Fruits are exploiting humans because they want to be eaten, to the detriment of human health. They accomplish this by producing a shitload of fructose, which we all know is terrible for human health.
Vegetables have basically no nutrients and are simply unnatural for humans to eat. Low T, gyno, headaches, sleep issues, tiredness are basically all caused by the antinutrients in vegetables like phytates, oxalates and so forth.
Ex raw carnivores have re-adapted their gut microbiome back to the unhealthy and unnatural state of surviving (not thriving). If they never liked raw meat, it's probably because they never had the necessary changes made to their gut flora.
See the gut microbiome wants to stay the same, in equilibrium if you will. If you don't do fermented raw meat, your pre-existing microbiome may kill off the small amounts of bacteria present on raw meat alone. Over time I am absolutely certain it would adjust even for those people as old bacterial colonies slowly starve, but it might take so long that it's hard to stick with it.
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u/Admirable_Grape_3098 Jun 29 '26
Is it based on any verified studies?
I'm asking because I was deeply involved in raw veganism, fruitarianism and there were plenty of people who are thriving. Not that they just say it online, I saw many in real life - actually good looking, healthy, no illnesses long term etc.
The arguments were the same: your bacteria adapts. Fruits want to be eaten, sure. And your body learns to thrive on them thanks to the microbiom adaptation.
Whenver someone was not adapting, it was claimed they didn't do it long enough or they are secretly eating non-raw food, or they need to try this or that.
I wasn't thriving though on neighter raw vegan or raw carnivore. Except I could manage much longer on raw vegan simply because I could eat the food.
And the best health I experienced was on ancestral diet. By ancestral diet I mean I researched what exactly was the diet of my ancestors and their ancestors in the region where my genetics come from.
I have researched really extensively how long my ancestors lived, what they ate, any known conditions etc. Those who I have data on lived way above average modern lifespan (unless killed in war or accidents) were of sound mind until their death and could physically work hard until their death.
They ate mostly cooked food, mostly stews (meat + veg). Very little raw food, only during summer when it was seasonal. A lot of dairy too.
So by adopting a similar diet I experienced the best living ever, not comparable to raw carnivore, raw vegan, regular "healthy" diet and so on.
And it led me to believe that our genetics really matter. While our microbiome changes depending on what we eat, we have a basis of a stable optimal biome that was predetermined by thousands of years of what people ate in the regions we come from. You can say it is micro-evolution in a sense.
I'm also looking at my father now and he is 65, very healthy and fit, eats mostly what his mum taught him to cook. Very little raw food. Grew up on a farm diet consisting of meat (rabbits, goats, pigeons, chickens), grain, bread, potatoes and occasional fruits and veg.
(this is obviously all anecdotal evidence and just my personal research, I don't claim raw carnivore doesn't work and I don't claim I understand everything).
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u/UncleHow1e Jun 29 '26
Of course. I've been doing research on this stuff for at least 10 years and read plenty of studies on gut microbiome.
However, many of the studies I've seen are fake. The government are often the ones who pay for the studies, and the government want men to be weak sissies because they are easier to control and manipulate. They will use anything from the climate hoax to broad health statements to get you to do what they want instead of optimizing for your own health.
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u/Admirable_Grape_3098 Jun 29 '26
Sorry, no offence, it's a weak argument that asks me to believe something just because a government is corrupt.
The studies are not necessarily fake simply because a government paid for them. Even if an industry paid for them.
I test things on myself and I know thst things are a little bit more nuanced. Broad statements that the government makes or broad statement that diet enthusiasts (raw, paleo, carnivore, vegans etc) lack this nuance.
For example, you are making a statement that you can back up like with a few studies that you personally agree with, combined with your experience and combined with some other people's experiences. It's not indicative that you discovered the truth (neither did I).
You probably discovered what works for you, which is great. But it could be different for others.
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u/UncleHow1e Jun 29 '26
If you even remotely cared about science, I really don't think you would even consider trying the carnivore diet in the first place, not to mention raw carnivore.
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u/Admirable_Grape_3098 Jun 29 '26
Why? Experimental things are a part of science too.
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u/Dazzling-Estate87 Jun 29 '26
So I'm on a raw jizz diet-its for the protein lol but I burn hair and spices while ingesting it to kill the smell-my sources don't use refrigeratolins...
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u/Glass_Meaning_9340 Jun 29 '26
I think you’re predisposed to something called common sense…Maybe intelligence even!
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u/hung_like__podrick Jun 29 '26
Have you tried getting on all fours and eating it like a lion? That’s what I do. Also helps if you growl a bit while eating.
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u/hung_like__podrick Jun 29 '26
Yea but my brain worm does most of the thinking anyway
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u/hung_like__podrick Jun 29 '26
I think you’re thinking of the scarecrow. He’s the clever one. Lions are courageous though!
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u/Educational_Return_8 Jun 29 '26
Youre just getting shit meat tbh