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If you wish your child would eat something other than chicken nuggets or French fries once in a while, be thankful they aren’t the children of Derek Nance, who have grown up eating the same diet he does: raw, sometimes rotten meat.
Derek Nance, 35, from Lexington, Kentucky, says that he has eaten nothing but raw meat products for the last ten years after spending a lot of time searching for foods that fit his life. He said before this he had a lot of digestive and allergy problems, and raw meat was the cure.
Derek swears that the only time he has ever gotten sick from his diet was when he ate a week-old raw chicken and contracted food poisoning. His theory on feeding his children raw meat is that it contains more nutrients and vitamins than baby food, so it is a good option. The oldest of four thinks that people will find it “weird”, while his younger sister says it is “cool”.
Rotten meat doesn’t bother him. Often called ‘high meat’ for the high it will give you, Nance argues that it is common in nature to consume, so why can’t he?
Nance sources all his meat from local farms and follows snout-to-tail eating, which means no part of the animal is wasted. When he has a busy day and needs a quick snack, he will blend up a sheep’s stomach for an on-the-go smoothie option.
