Move over glue sniffers, the ‘Rotten Meat High’ is here.

Source: In a diet that seems to be a cross between the primal eater’s paleo diet and the probiotic-forward kombucha trend, people are eating “high meat” — fermented or straight-up rotten meat that, some say, leaves them feeling buzzed. After the trend made a resurgence on social media and resulted in a Vice report, others have questions. 

People’s reasons for eating rotten meat seem to differ from person to person. Some enjoy the feeling of euphoria that apparently comes from eating decomposed meat — a Reddit user described a feeling of “euphoria, unity, and family.” Others are reportedly eating it for health reasons and as a way to what they say is a more natural diet full of healthy bacteria and probiotics. These consumers, including YouTuber Frank Tufano, argue that many people’s ancestors and some indigenous tribes used to store and ferment meat for several days or months. He claims they ate it as a delicacy, which is how he describes his jar of fermented meat fat. 

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In a report linked by IFL Science, the publication speculates that the high euphoric feeling people report may come from “unknown mechanisms” of the fermented meat, or simply a “delirium” brought on by an upset stomach. 

Naras Lapsys, a Singapore-based consultant dietitian, told Vice that the bacteria grown in the meat could elicit the high effect.

“If you’re leaving this out for anything from days to months to years, who knows what kinds of [bacteria] are going to grow, and some of those bacterias might have chemical properties that are going to give you a high, or hallucination, or a feeling of euphoria,” he said. 

Any way you slice it, it’s probably in your best interest to make a pros and cons list before you try to get high off fermented meat. 

“There’s a lot to be said about the scientific literature we have around food safety,” Groppo says. “It’s pretty solid science.” 

Fuck. That.

Do these people have any idea how cheap weed and mushrooms are?

Save yourself the rectal abscess and dysentery and smoke a bowl or kill a handful of mushrooms AFTER you eat cooked meat.

This is the kind of hokey bullshit you’ll see Dr. Oz advocating on his show as he unfurls 30 feet of cadaver colon in front of a studio audience.

We don’t eat uncooked meat for a variety of reasons.

If you want pathogenic bacteria such as salmonella, staphylococcus and E. coli, then go for it.  Leave a pile of meat in a bowl in your bay window for a few days and mow down on this…

or this…

or this…

or whatever the fuck this is.

Just grind a bowl like the rest of us and eat cooked food, FFS.