Pathology, Sewage, and Supplements

Article: Sewage waters a tenth of world’s irrigated crops�| New Scientist

Everytime I come across a health related article I get a good laugh. Are people so far removed that this seems strange, wrong, or is new to them. Amazing, the amount of hoopla things generate. Then again, as stated in the article, “..Water, health, and agriculture ministires outlaw the practice, but refuse to reconginize it is widespread.” Gee, even govt’s put their head in the sand.

However, the one thing no one brings up is more insideous. Lets say, we have a really bad scenario, where in a animal with a transmissible spongiform encephalopathy is butchered. The resulting waster water stream is then used for irrigation. Next we add in the affinity of lettuce as a carrier. Now we wait 3-5 years. All of a sudden we have a nasty situation, Creuzfeldt-Jakob disease is showing up everywhere. Talk about a pita to track that back to the source. What do we call it for short, mad lettuce disesase??? Of course in reality, the probability of successful priontransport along that path is extremely minute, if even possible. Yet it has been shown that other pathogens can make the trip.

Another tough pathology tracking scenario would be the world of nutritional supplements. Many are grown organically, eg, manure, or more typically liquid manure. They are also advertised as natural…. In other words, no post processing. As such, we are now subjecting our bodies to pathogens much worse than might ever be in the sewer. Just think of the 100,000 gallon petri dish with little control that is used to create the natural organic nutritional supplements. Then throw in the situation where in contamination can occur anywhere along the path, and it gets really scary. I thought this article which mentions hexachlorobenzne in ginseng supplements was especially interesting.

Whats the solution? sustainable ag, know your food source, grow your one. Even Ted’s Kill It and Grill it looks like a better idea for performance, than any supplement. Especially when the herbal based ones may be tweaked with steroids or epherdra to boost sales.