Is Dirt Safe To Eat?

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[goseminoles]

There’s a story out today from Japan that they developed a way to eat excrement. Dirt isn’t so bad. Japan scientist synthesizes meat from human feces - Yahoo! News

[call meVeronica]

With those ingredients it was both effective and you could use it on babies and animals without hesitation.

[call meVeronica]

With those ingredients it was both effective and you could use it on babies and animals without hesitation.

[reformedliberal]

Certainly safer than the bismuth subsalicylate they use now.

I used the old stuff and it did work.

I also used yellow mercuric oxide and mercurochrome until all mercury products were recalled and banned. No one I know ever had any bad effects and the physicians I have spoken with tell me the mercury compounds were ineffective and yet, they all prescribed them as long as they were available. When I asked them why, no one had an answer. They worked for me and my extended family for as long as I can recall.

Still not sure I would ingest bentonite for diarrhea, especially since the *green clay* is also expensive. OTOH, pectin is not only widely available, it can be homemade from apple peels.
http://www.wildflowers-and-weeds.com/The_Forager/pectin.htm

[Ditter]

Farm kids don’t get allergies? That is a crock. I was a (sort of) farm kid, we had all the cows, horses, chickens, dogs and cats but we didn’t have a working farm. My brother and I both have had severe allergies since early childhood. You get allergies because you have inherited the gene that causes them. There seems to be more kids with allergies now because someone is counting them.

[Melinda in TN]

It cleans you out without causing diarrhea or other discomforts. You just need to drink plenty of water. A friend of mine has been using it for years and claims that she has felt wonderful since she started it. I don't use it as much, not because it doesn't work but more because I find it difficult to drink muddy water even if it doesn't have any taste. You dissolve it in a glass of water and drink the water. It works like fiber without the side effects of fiber.

[Sacajaweau]

A bowl of cereal or a bowl of dirt?? What would a person with half a brain eat??

[Melinda in TN]

I’d rather eat the cereal. I’m not a big fan of drinking the bentonite clay mixed in water but the point was that it’s not dangerous and could even be beneficial. It’s not really considered to be dirt.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Farm kids don’t get allergies? That is a crock.

I said "Farm kids don’t seem to get these allergies nearly as much."

If you don't believe that's so, Google "farm kids get less allergies". You'll see page after page of references.

[Ditter]

If the farm kids inherited allergy genes from their parents, they will get allergies.

[Leroy S. Mort]

But not all allergies are genetic.

[Ditter]

.....but the tendency to get them is. Allergies have nothing to do with playing in the dirt or being too clean.

[Leroy S. Mort]

Allergies have nothing to do with playing in the dirt or being too clean.

The National Institute of Health is not so sure:

"Possible explanations for the lower prevalence of hay fever, asthma and allergic sensitization in children living on a farm might be the development of immunotolerance or the stimulation of TH1 cells and suppression of TH2 cells by increased exposure of farm children to microbial antigens in the stables or farmhouses."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10651771

[Ditter]

I have a “possible explanation” for the National Institute of Health. Maybe the more allergic farm children died young and didn’t pass on their allergic genes to their off spring. I know I certainly could have died from several of the asthma attacks I had as a child but fortunately there was an ER and I got treatment.