>>509945600 (OP)The reality of rot is this; how edible something is when it starts to turn depends on the life form that is currently breaking it down.
These microbes don't get a free lunch, they have to war and lay claim to the food against other microbes and plenty don't get along.
When raw meat gets infest with salmonella, the bacteria effectively pollutes it with toxins to keep non- salmonella life forms from stealing its food including large life forms like us. We ingest it, get some bacteria in our body and it shits out toxins inside of us for as long as it can.
In the case of things like this, getting a mold that doesn't effectively make the food toxic to us is a form of beneficial rot. That mold is producing things like the salmonella to keep competitors off its meat, but we're immune to it.