Are you afraid to touch raw meat?

I don't really like to touch raw meat, but if I have too I do. I do not like the feel of it and I do not like that it makes my hands all sticky. I also worry about cleaning up after it properly because of the germs on it. I have trouble walking past a butchers though because if I get a whiff of the raw meat it turns my stomach!

It could be, celia4evr, that your reaction is a result of all the recent publicity regarding the negative side of the meat industry. We certainly hear a lot of bad things about how meat is handled and processed these days. As far as becoming a vegetarian goes, that requires a lot of monitoring to make sure that you get all of the necessary vitamins and proteins that your body would miss out on should you decide to go that route.

thats ...dear ...how can you expect to cook it when you cant touch it...grow up....

I was a vegetarian for awhile. Not a vegan, but a vegetarian. The main difference between the two is that a vegetarian enjoys milk and eggs and cheese. Where as most vegans do not. Except for lacto-ovo vegans which eat eggs. I don't like handling raw food either, but more for sanitary reasons. It's made me sick before. Now I'm super clean on everything!

I am like that, too. I still live at home, though, so my mom cooks the meat. Just the thought of touching raw meat freaks me out. I hate the smell of it, too. Yuck. I don't think I'm necessarily 'afraid' to touch raw meat, it just grosses me out.

I just don't like the way it looks or feels and how you have to mush the burger meat . I hate how it will stay on your hands and never seems to rinse off . I hate cooking with red meat , but I like it very much .

I do not have a problem with touching raw meat. It does not bother me at all. I just make sure that I wash my hands really well after touching it. I could never be a vegetarian. I like meat too much.