Eating mushrooms raw?

Thank you all for our responses! Wow, you're fast!

One more question: do you boil mushrooms as well or just saute and roast them...?

I prefer them saute'd and roasted. But I've boiled them in foods before. Cook 'em how you want, really.

I don't eat them often--not really a fan--but they are good for you. BUT having said that, I would never eat them raw because they could contain pathogens if eaten raw. They are grown on pure horse manure (I used to live a few miles from a mushroom growing operation) and the smell is really awful when they are "cooking down" the horse manure. If they don't let it cook down enough, the temperatures could be too low to destroy all the pathogens.

Are you f#$%ing kidding me?

Mushrooms are amazing
There is no wrong way to eat a mushroom

I could not agree with you more!