Raw meat Raw meat Raw meat generally refers to any type of uncooked muscle tissue of an animal used for food. In the meat production industry, the term ‘meat’ refers specifically to mammalian flesh, while the words ‘poultry’ and ‘seafood’ are used to differentiate between the tissue of birds and aquatic creatures. While the majority of meat is cooked before eating, some traditional dishes such as crudos, steak tartare, sushi, sashimi, raw oysters, or other delicacies call for uncooked meat. The risk of disease from ingesting pathogens found in raw meat is significantly higher than cooked meat, although both can be contaminated.
Horse meat the traditional "Sauerbraten" in horse meat, typically with a beef variant to choose from. Other traditional horse meat dishes include the Swabian "Pferderostbraten" (a joint of roast meat prepared similarly to roast beef), Bavarian sausage varieties such as "Rosswurst" and "Ross-Kochsalami" as well as "Ross-Leberkäse", a meatloaf dish. The 2013 meat adulteration scandal started when German authorities detected horse meat in prepared food products including frozen lasagna, where it was declared fraudulently as beef. The mislabeling prompted EU authorities to speed up publication of European Commission recommendations for labeling the origin of all processed meat. In Hungary, horse meat is