all this meat and unpasteurized milk must cost a lot, even if some of it is just the stuff the butcher throws away at the end of the day, you're still paying a premium for the same e.coli you could be getting from lettuce

I'm glad y'all were as disgusted reading this as I was making it!

For some further reading, I recommend looking up a guy who Chai Tea Latte recommended to me known as the Liver King, who promoted and claimed to live on a raw meat diet separate from Aajonus' and an insane 'Barbarian' lifestyle/exercise regime. He has his own website which is downright embarassing and has things like his full life story, in which he has a script for picking up girls. It probably doesn't need saying, but brace yourself for just so much misogyny. Oh, also there was a big scandal when he was revealed to not eat a strict raw meat diet and also be doing a shit load of steroids, then his life fell apart, he held his wife hostage, lost an eye and got brain damage or something.

He's still alive (I think) and doing this shit, and his website's gone through an overhaul that makes it harder to find his articles, but if you weren't poisoned enough by r/rawprimal then the amount of unbridled toxic masculinity here might be enough to get you into that early grave.

I really wonder about the biographies of people like this. 

Like, a lot of people get to, "Huh, a lot of the nutritional/medical stuff we're told turns out to be not 100% right" pretty easy, and stay reasonable.  Some people get to "...and that means that The Man is pushing bullshit and I should instead turn to chewing willow bark for my headaches," but just stick around there.  Some people get to "...so I should latch onto this weird fad diet because it feels truthier to me," and stick there.

But these dudes go past all of those, straight into, "I should eat something that goes against not only everything experts and our culture in general have said, but also goes against my own bodily instincts, and the fact that it is causing me to feel extremely sick means it is working and I should do it more."

I just... I want to know what happens in a person's life to lead to that level of bloodymindedness

I wish I believed in anything as strongly as these people believed in actively detrimental nonsense.

This has already beaten the hucows episode for my favorite, the copperhead bit cannot be matched