Meat Eating Mom Splits Opinion by Feeding Baby Barely Cooked Steak

Ally Perry • Writer and Editor

Nov 30, 2023 8:00 PM EST

At this point, I am begging: please, God, can all those people whose diets mostly consist of semi-raw red meat stop pulling stunts about it for social media? It's bad enough when you see full-grown adults chowing down on a delicacy such as sink steak, but now those zealots are getting their kids onto it as well.

It brings me no pleasure to report that I realized this thanks to a viral video on Twitter. A mom shared how she was giving her young baby tomahawk steak, insisting that "evidence-based dietary guidelines" said that meat was an ideal first weaning food for babies.

While some viewers were inexplicably impressed by the food poisoning waiting to happen, others had some understandable concerns about a tiny child gnawing on a massive hunk of meat. I'm no expert on these things, but I imagine standard baby food would probably be a safer choice.