in a lot of places ppl will never ever touch rare meat. its disgusting to them, unsanitary. my wife loves sushi but refuses to eat rare fish. she says to her its like eating litteral sh/t. conditioning from where she was raised. (she eats the rice n cucumber rolls haha)

we cook salmon so thoroughly it makes fried chicken look raw :'). God bless spices!

Id never recommend eating raw meat. I worked at a distribution butchery for super markets in a country that arguably has one of the cleanest and strictest pipelines for such stuff and i'll tell u. its just people packing ur stuff.. its incredibly easy for a chain of events to happen to get properly sourced meat infected with pretty much anyhting. many opportunities along the route from slaughter to packaging etc.

its not gross or badly managed, just how it is with humans handling things, heat needed during the process, many transports and different handoffs during production process.

so yeah, cook it n cook it good is all i can say. dont trust some sticker on a package to tell u its safer than somethin else