Food poisoning triggers need adjusting

[Eames]

Right now eating fresh raw meat almost always gives poisoning, while eating rotten manmade foods never does. This removes the "what if" aspect of taking calculated risk since there's nothing to calculate: snacks = good, meat = bad.

[continuity]

True, Also I would have thought the very fresh meat, (just killed) should be relatively low risk.

[Eames]

@continuity Funny thing is – it was so in the past.

[Berniyh]

On 09/07/2016 at 11:12 AM, Eames said:

Right now eating fresh raw meat almost always gives poisoning, while eating rotten manmade foods never does. This removes the "what if" aspect of taking calculated risk since there's nothing to calculate: snacks = good, meat = bad.

I got food poisoning from tomato soup recently. But yeah, it's less likely than raw meat, which however would be expected.

[Berniyh]

On 09/07/2016 at 11:20 AM, continuity said:

True, Also I would have thought the very fresh meat, (just killed) should be relatively low risk.

I'd say that really depends on the animal.

Keep in mind that the animal itself may carry parasites or bacteria that may be harmful to humans.

On the other hand, it is quite common to eat raw fish. And actually I've done exactly that a few times in TLD and only got food poisoning once from a (raw) fish. However with fish you're wasting calories if you're not cooking it, so it's still not worth it.

[Patrick Carlson]

On 7/9/2016 at 2:12 AM, Eames said:

Right now eating fresh raw meat almost always gives poisoning, while eating rotten manmade foods never does. This removes the "what if" aspect of taking calculated risk since there's nothing to calculate: snacks = good, meat = bad.

Depending on the quality of the item, you can get food poisoning from packaged food items in the game. The chance may be small, but it is there.