I don’t even like my steaks to be too rare; I always order them medium. Guess I’m just hopelessly civilized, and I’m okay with that. Lexington, Kentucky’s Derek Nance has a rare medical condition that won’t allow him to eat anything EXCEPT raw meat. That’s all he’s dined on for the past five years, and he claims to be healthier than ever. He raises and slaughters his own animals, to keep it all organic, yo, and, hilariously, his girlfriend is a vegetarian. Derek eats everything from internal organs to meat that is decomposing. And he claims that the old adage concerning animals and blood is true: Once you get a taste for it, you never go back. He claims that he now CRAVES blood and raw flesh.
I know wolves have to drink large amounts of water every day to keep their kidneys functioning. It’s one of the trade-offs of enjoying a carnivorous diet. I don’t know if this is true of other predators, but it seems like a logical extrapolation. I wonder if Derek has had any kind of health issues due to his unusual diet. He says otherwise, but long term, who knows? Anyway, like the stereotypical wolf, Derek prefers the flesh of lambs to any other. Hey, as long as he’s not going all Jeffrey Dahmer on us.