Disclaimer: I haven't eaten raw chicken. Not looking for Reddit quips telling me to go to an emergency room.
Was just wondering if salmonella is pretty much guaranteed when eating raw chicken or if it's something like 50/50 and an easy preventative measure like throwing out expired/damaged cans of food or washing fruits and vegetables before you eat them. I feel like I've seen a lot of people in TV shows and movies eating raw eggs.
Most of the risk comes from the processing and handling of the meat. If the chicken isn't perfectly healthy, and the butcher isn't very careful about keeping the intestinal tract from spreading, bacteria from the intestinal tract could spread to the meat.
This is the same reason that you need to cook ground beef to a much higher temperature than you need to cook a steak, more surface area, more points of possible contamination.
Is it possible to process and eat raw chicken safely? The Japanese certainly think so, it's a dish that's available widely in Japan.
It's up to you, and your risk tolerances. But if you're going to do it, you have to make sure you source the meat cleanly, it's processed very cleanly, it's stored very cleanly. It's a high bar