Are you afraid to touch raw meat?

I don't really like to touch raw meat, but if I have too I do. I do not like the feel of it and I do not like that it makes my hands all sticky. I also worry about cleaning up after it properly because of the germs on it.

I have trouble walking past a butchers though because if I get a whiff of the raw meat it turns my stomach!

I am like that, too. I still live at home, though, so my mom cooks the meat. Just the thought of touching raw meat freaks me out. I hate the smell of it, too. Yuck.
I don't think I'm necessarily 'afraid' to touch raw meat, it just grosses me out.

thats ...dear ...how can you expect to cook it when you cant touch it...grow up....

I just don't like the way it looks or feels and how you have to mush the burger meat . I hate how it will stay on your hands and never seems to rinse off . I hate cooking with red meat, but I like it very much .

I was a vegetarian for awhile.
Not a vegan, but a vegetarian.
The main difference between the two
is that a vegetarian enjoys milk and
eggs and cheese.

Where as most vegans do not.
Except for lacto-ovo vegans
which eat eggs.

I don't like handling raw food either,
but more for sanitary reasons. It's made
me sick before. Now I'm super clean on
everything!

I do not have a problem with touching raw meat. It does not bother me at all. I just make sure that I wash my hands really well after touching it. I could never be a vegetarian. I like meat too much.

It could be, celia4evr, that your reaction is a result of all the recent publicity regarding the negative side of the meat industry. We certainly hear a lot of bad things about how meat is handled and processed these days. As far as becoming a vegetarian goes, that requires a lot of monitoring to make sure that you get all of the necessary vitamins and proteins that your body would miss out on should you decide to go that route.