Cleanliness of skinned meat?

[Oregon Blues]

By the way, the inside of a chicken is not "germy". Don't knick the intestines and you won't have any germs from inside the chicken's body cavity.

 

[Bossroo]

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The reason that the " inside of a chicken is not ""germy "" " is the fact that the skin is the ORGAN OF FIRST DEFENCE

to repell the armies of germ invaders in all living organisms. When any animal gets an abrasion or cut to it's skin, it is then breached and an entry point to germ invasion.

Skinning is of the largest magnitude of a breach point to germs.

The only reasons that someone doesn't become ill from consuming a germ contamination is that the invading germ colonies are still quite small ( cleanliness during processing also helps in keeping the germ numbers low) on the muscle, inbetween the muscle fibers , fat deposits, residual blood, and organs. Then , the heat of cooking destroys a great majority of the invaders, then followed by the repelling assaults by the guarding forces of the standing army of antibdies in our own bodies.

Thank you Mother Nature .