Abroad in Japan · Thursday, July 16, 2026
The hosts discuss the practice of eating bear meat, with one host recounting a personal experience of eating undercooked bear meat that led to trichinosis. They debate the ethical considerations of eating different animals, ultimately concluding that parasites are a greater deterrent than moral objections.
“I'll trot to eat a bear once. Ate it. It was a little bit raw. I think we need to cook ourselves.”
“I looked up like, bear meat or whatever. And it was like, don't eat bear meat. It's full of parasites. I saw somebody like an X-ray of somebody who had eaten like bear meat. And they'd got this condition called like trichinosis and their whole, all their muscles had like hundreds of parasites in.”
“So like, when it comes to eating animals, it won't morals that gets in my way. It's the parasites inside your body.”