I began to eat steak tartar in Madagascar at about the same time I began relishing escargot. It’s amazing to me the French can walk upright with all the parasites in their bodies.
The French insist that raw foods like steak tartare actually strengthen the immune system.
Only problem with raw beef is there isn’t much flavor. I make a cannibal sandwich like in “Alas Babylon”: dark rye spread with horseradish & hot mustard, and an onion slice over the ground round.
Anyway, to each his own, Pres. Trump included. Even well done steak with ketchup isn’t nearly as gross as eating ketchup with a hot dog, as Dirty Harry Callahan observed.
Steak tartare is a german inspired treat during the holidays in Wisconsin.
I've been eating raw hamburger(if it is of good quality) right out of the package or my meat grinder since around 1975. Love it. My wife gags at my eating it that way. Her parents and her prefer shoe leather beef. My parents couldn't eat meat with any pink either. Such is life.
Well, at least the zebu parasites are probably endemic like almost everything else there.
So you have that going for you.