News to Obamaland: Raw Food=Rat Lungworm

Hawai`i Free Press ^ | January 5, 2008 | Andrew Walden

[AndrewWalden]

Humans have been cooking food since before they were Homo sapiens....but ... There was a raw food festival in Novemeber 20-23, 2008 in Kalapana....and now this....

(From the Star-Bulletin) Jan 5, 2009:

...Halda said he and a friend, Silka Strauch, who live in Black Sands between Pahoa and Kalapana, have been eating raw vegetables and taking precautions by cleaning the produce with a peroxide rinse.

He suspects they may have accidentally consumed tiny larvae of slugs lodged in the deep folds of peppers.

[AndrewWalden]

The Kalapana area voted 85% for Barack Obama....Remember, these folks are "enlightened", "progressive" and "conscious". ...

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

“Rat Lungworm”

Another one for the punk band name list.

[Navy Patriot]

No wonder the environazis want to cut off our power and gas. Wouldn't want to cook any of those little worms.

[IYAS9YAS]

I can understand the issue were it concerning meat. However, this person apparently consumed raw vegetables. Can't condemn someone for that. Most veggies taste better raw.

Are these like the dumpster divers? Did they get this out of the trash? Why the peroxide rinse? Is it no longer good enough to wash veggies with just water?

[IYAS9YAS]

Are these like the dumpster divers? Did they get this out of the trash? Why the peroxide rinse? Is it no longer good enough to wash veggies with just water?

Ah, comes from a slug on the islands, localized problem. Got it now. Full article is linked to in the article you linked to.

[muawiyah]

This happened in Hawaii. They have some parasites there we don’t have further North, and everywhere else in the USA is much further North than any part of Hawaii.

[John Valentine]

The first time I ever heard of rat lungworm was in Honolulu in 1962.

It seems that some Philippino gardeners had been supplementing the protein in their diets by eating the garden slugs and snails they would come across in the course of their gardening duties. Raw. The only problem with this was that the slugs were carrying the rat lungworm parasite, which immediately took up residence in the gardeners’ brains. You see, these rat lungworms seem to prefer nervous system tissues to lung. I remember thinking the worms probably ought to be called rat brainworm.

This was only diagnosed after death, in the case of these gardeners, when the medical examiners founds that forty percent of their intra-cranial matter consisted of worms.

I’ll avoid any discussion of how these folks voted, but I think we all know.

[tbw2]

Isn’t peroxide rinse hazardous?

[TribalPrincess2U]

Isn’t peroxide rinse hazardous?

I hope not. I rinse my toothbrush off with it after use.

[Jeff Chandler]

Most veggies taste better raw.

I beg to differ.

[Aglooka]

Remember, these folks are "enlightened", "progressive" and "conscious". ...

LOL.

[Gandalf_The_Gray]

Isn’t peroxide rinse hazardous?

Not at 3% concentration (OTC at the local drug store) as the concentration goes up it becomes more and more efficient as an oxidizer. Above 30% it is downright hazardous.

There is a self taught engineer in Mexico that builds one man rocket belts that are powered by concentrated H₂O₂. Passed over a catalyst it breaks down into H₂O oxygen and a great deal of heat which vaporizes the water to stream. He has also built and driven peroxide powered motorcycles and drag racers.
http://www.tecaeromex.com/ingles/RB-i.htm

Regards,
GtG

[IYAS9YAS]

Name three normal vegetables, other than corn, that taste better cooked.

[Tribune7]

I eat raw vegetables.

Of course, I always cook my grapefruit /s.

[Chewbacca]

Brocoli, Celery, Green Beans.

[Jeff Chandler]

Broccoli, cauliflower, and carrots.

Not to mention spinach, artichokes, cabbage, celery, green beans, sugar snap peas, etc.

All better cooked until tender.

[Titan Magroyne]

I actually prefer a lot of those raw (drowned in various dressings, of course) but must have my taters and yams cooked!

[kenth]

Tempura!

[Jeff Chandler]

When you cook vegetables, the rat lungworm slugs take on an exquisite, meaty flavor reminiscent of mushrooms.

[Jeff Chandler]

forty percent of their intra-cranial matter consisted of worms.

Democrats.