Eat Crap: Why Americans should ingest more excrement.

Slate ^ | October 9, 2007 | Kent Sepkowitz

[xjcsa]

One year ago, the now-famous E. coli outbreak arising from contaminated spinach rattled the natural-food industry and gave carnivores a moment of schadenfreude. The story had the heartbreaking elements we have come to dread: A young child eats something mundane and dies a horrid death. Boom, gone. I have (unsuccessfully) treated one such case and rate it as perhaps the most chilling moment of my career. [snip]

Maybe we are taking the wrong approach. Rather than trying to make our food and water ever cleaner, we should focus instead on making sure it's dirty enough to assure our good health.

[snip]

The triumph of Western civilization is, first and foremost, a triumph of pipes and valves and the fact that water runs downhill. Aqueducts bring fresh water in, cobblestoned underground tunnels move used water out, and, presto, our world is clean.

[snip]

But here is the problem: We have become victims of our own success. Ever wonder why your dog can gobble, lick, and gnaw all he wants along the glorious buffet of a city street and (almost) never get sick? Your dog is used to eating shit.

[snip]

There's just too much crap out there: human crap, horse crap, cow crap, pig crap.

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[N. Theknow]

Eat Crap: Why Americans should ingest more excrement.

Oh great. Another pro-Hillary thread.

[xjcsa]

Love the tagline.

[CarrotAndStick]

The triumph of Western civilization is, first and foremost, a triumph of pipes and valves and the fact that water runs downhill. Aqueducts bring fresh water in, cobblestoned underground tunnels move used water out, and, presto, our world is clean.

Aqueducts may be fine and all, but the Romans had common toilets that were basically slabs on a platform, with a hole in it, and for cleaning up, there was a stick with cloth tied to it, kept aside in a bucket of water, and everyone used the same swab after each session, and dislodged the fecal remains in the bucket (all of this was rather elaborately described in a National Geographic magazine celebrating the whole Roman Empire. If you can get your hands on one, it's a great read. It was dated 1997, IIRC). I hope no one was eating anything while they read this, lol!

[Ramius]

Like I always said:

“Life is like a S#1% Sandwich. The more bread you got, the less S#1% you have to eat.”

[lightman]

So the new mantra is “Eat $hit or die”?

[CougarGA7]

Yeah. I needed to know that.

[xjcsa]

No[t] funny when one has had a child become ill from E. coli and had to deal with damages from that for years.

The use of words seems intended to be funny, but it's actually a fairly serious article about exactly that real problem. I don't see any intent here to make fun of the problem itself, and I wouldn't wish that illness on anyone. Well, almost anyone.

[AlexW]

“Maybe we are taking the wrong approach.”

I tend to agree that too much cleanliness may be destroying
our immune system.
Put a 21st century American into an 18th century environment, he would probably be dead within a month.

[editor-surveyor]

Some people can eat almost anything.

Although I don’t advocate eating the equivalent of liberals brains, I have always been able to eat things that have made others sick. Just a few weeks ago, a group of us on a construction site all ate fried chicken and potato salad, purchased from a local Safeway store, for lunch. within an hour everyone that had eaten, except for my assistant and myself, was quite sick, and headed for the emergency room. The EMT crews wanted us to go too, but we chose to remain and finish our work. We never did get even slightly queasy, but the rest of them didn’t return for two days or more. Pathogens were found in the salad that we ate, and also in the batch at the store.

[Allegra]

Put a 21st century American into an 18th century environment, he would probably be dead within a month.

I'm in one. Maybe even in a 13th century environment.

Still ticking!

[editor-surveyor]

"To counteract the effects of this contamination, they are immersed in as many as 40 chlorine baths before final packaging."

Now that does make me sick!

[chesley]

Well, this guy should jsut become a Dhimmicrat. They swallow bullshit all the time.

[clamper1797]

Just tune in to any MSM channel ... you’ll get feed all the crap you can stand ... and then some

[Kevmo]

Hey Slate: Eat Crap and Die.

[Secret Agent Man]

Well I gotta say if you’re eating pork there’s a potential chance what’s on the bone could have been sh1t only 4 short hours ago. That’s how fast what a pig eats can be converted to body mass.

[CCCnative]

I tell liberals this all the time. Funny , they don’t think I’m doing it for their health.
It's the "and die" part that probably makes it seem unfriendly

[Secret Agent Man]

I ran across a similar article not too long ago, but not talking about eating feces, but dirt. A little dirt on stuff to keep the immune system perking and ready for really bad things that you may be exposed to. They go back to the way us gen-x and earlier kids played in the dirt, and then putting hands in the mouth, as actually possibly helping kids on some levels.

Nowadays you’d have a PINO (parent in name only) freaking out and softsoaping the kid’s mouth and hands and running off to the ER.

[djf]

Alot of folks, me included, believe that the meteoric rise in allergies and asthmas and various auto-immune disorders are exactly from living in a too-sterile environment.

Heck, when I was a kid, I remember eating the mud pies and getting the splinters in my knees that would fester a bit, then pop out.

You have to give the immune system something to do - remember, it’s primary purpose is to be trained to recognize the difference between self and non-self.

Without that training, it’s liable to go bonkers and attack anything at all - even the good stuff - thinking it’s the enemy. I think alot of these MS type diseases and fibromyalgias are part of the same trend.

[P8riot]

Yeah. I needed to know that.

Sorry. Here's a really good book on the subject. It's a real eye-opener.

[P8riot]

thanks