Pork brains!

I will not feed Jessie raw pork because of trichinosis even though freezing it for 20 days at 5 degrees farenheit is supposed to kill the worms.

I felt the same way when I did the elimination diet last spring for Sassy using pork.  I just felt safer cooking it.  Especially since I usually wanted to get everything ready on Sunday (the same day I bought it) for the following week.  I just threw it in the crockpot and cooked it for a few hours on high.  It eased my mind, even if it wasn't necessary.

Jessies Mom,
 
So, if you take frozen venison, and then cook it, should all the worms then be killed?

Jessies Mom,

So, if you take frozen venison, and then cook it, should all the worms then be killed

 
  I went back and checked the CDC site and it says to cook meat to 170 degrees to kill the worms and to cook all wild game meat thoroughly, so I guess so. I wonder why freezing kills the worms in domestic meat but not in wild meat?

Trichina is almost eliminated from the US pork supply. It was caused by feeding raw meat to pork, and also poor management of living facilities, where rodents had access to stalls and would be killed and eaten *shudder* by the pigs. The trichina larva is destroyed by freezing for 14 days at 0 degrees F, regardless of what meat it is in. Trichina only infest muscle material, so brain tissue is safe from trichina, though one would still want to freeze it for other reasons, as mentioned above.

My dogs love heads. It's probably the most primal, disgustingly doggy activity they enjoy, taking apart a sheep, goat, pig, or calf head. Head eating is a wintertime recreation only, as the "item" is kept outside and no one dog can eat an entire brain in one sitting, it's just too rich. 'Nuff said on that point, I think! Although I wish I had a picture of Zhi gnawing on a calf's head today - the skull was half again as big as HER! She almost could have crawled inside though thank goodness she's too much of a princess for that.[8|]

http://www.aphis.usda.gov/vs/trichinae/docs/fact_sheet.htm\
 
Website from USDA with how to properly kill the cysts.  You do not have to freeze it at <0 degrees as long as it is for I think it said 4 days.  Notice at the bottom it also shows the percentage of pork population that tested positive for thichinella and as someone already posted was 0 in 1996, never can be to safe though.  Many foods can be safely frozen at temperatures >0F.

Well, the pork brains are disgusting. There are 8 g of fat in one 84 g serving. This stuff is mushy, fatty, grossness.

I fasted the dogs this morning (really learning from my raw feeding friend, we're actually fasting some, too), and I'm cooking up their carbs (potatoes and carrots, I'll add greens and cranberries in a bit) now. I decided to offer them each a bite of the pork brains. One little food whore (Teeeeeeenie, the eater of all things) scarfed it. The other little piggie turned her nose up, until I took it away. Then, she wanted it, so I gave it back. She made a face while she ate it[]