[Diana in Wisconsin]

Works every time it's tried! :)

[Diana in Wisconsin]

Gardening Ping!

[Gabz]

You’re a piece of work!!!!

[Celtic Conservative]

Is this why pigs seem so happy?

CC

[fwdude]

There’s just something about holding a handful of dark, moist, friable, compost-enriched soil in your hands - the weight of it, the internal warmth of the hungry microbes, the aroma - that just makes you feel good.

[thackney]

Snort some dirt and cheer the heck up!

[molson209]

When I was 5 years old , eating dirt just gave me Worms

[jazusamo]

Owning a piece of dirt from an acre on up can do wonders for your mental state also.

It’s nice to live on a piece of ground and not be packed in with people like sardines in a can. :-)

[Dr. Bogus Pachysandra]

Mud Pies for desert tonight!

[RetSignman]

I guess those starving Africans eating dirt are still going to die from starving but they are just so happy they just don’t give a crap.

[eldoradude]

Don't get too relaxed and fall asleep with the chia seeds...

Ch-ch-ch-chia!

[TurboZamboni]

happiest man ever

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Mycobacterium vaccae is in the same genus as Mycobacterium tuberculosis (that causes tuberculosis) and Mycobacterium leprae (that causes leprosy).

However, M. vaccae is not pathogenic. But it may be close enough to stimulate the immune system to act against the others.

Importantly, both tuberculosis and leprosy are very slow diseases, relatively speaking, reproducing only about once a day, unlike other bacteria that can typically reproduce about each half hour. This is why it can take drugs that treat them half a year or more to have a positive effect.

[GeronL]

It didn’t work for Robin Williams, he was a very dirty man

[aquila48]

“Eat dirt!”

No longer an insult ...

[djf]

There was a show on PBS back in the 80’s or early 90’s.

It was about communal living, get back to the soil, that kind of stuff.

There was a collective farm of sorts in Virginia, I think. They had some interesting habits raised all (or most) of there own food, raw unpasteurized goat or cows milk, whatever.

But each week they would have a special salad - once a week, they would make a salad and sprinkle dirt on it. Well, not dirt exactly, just garden soil.

Results?? They NEVER got sick. EVER!

[LadyDoc]

Aside from tetanus, anthrax, botulism, gas gangrene, camplobacter, and quite a few fungal diseases, no problem.

and all these back to nature types should work a few years in a primitive environment to see how stupid their claims are.