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sm1789
7/12/2016 06:50 EST

My novia, and everyone else I know here in Arequipa seems to be deathly scared of raw vegetables. Is there anything to that? Or does one simply rinse and eat as in the US? I hear that the vegetables are grown with human waste water and that feces is mixed in with that water. I thought that was organic fertilizer. What do you think? The ability to eat raw or uncooked vegetables would make healthy eating much easier and the vegetables in the St. Camillo mercado look great.

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scumbuster
7/12/2016 21:18 EST

There have been US studies of vegetables grown in wastewater sludge. It was reported that it was generally safe to eat vegetables that grew above the sludge and not in the sludge. Like corn and tomatoes would be ok but carrots and potatoes shouldn't be consumed. Of course this was 20 years ago that I had read this. Who knows what further study may have proven.

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iguanalover
7/13/2016 17:47 EST

That is the reason people peel the veggies and cook them.

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CaptainJT
7/21/2016 08:51 EST

I will point out a truth to those of you interested, but, I do not want to hear from anyone who has not seriously considered and tried what I am saying.

For thousands of years many "civilizations" have used human waste as fertilizer. Some examples are: Pakistan, India, China and Japan. They call such waste “Night Soil”. They had "acclimated" to being able to consume such foods. Until the big chemical companies created fake "fertilizers" human waste along with other animal wastes were also used in the USA and other “first world countries”. However, all of the supposed first world countries have gotten away from that practice and have gone to the extreme of sterilizing their citizens away from Nature. This problem is so critical in the USA that everyone feels it necessary to use powerful antibiotics on their food, bodies, clothes and everything they touch. However, the most dangerous place anyone can be in the USA is in any large hospital where many viruses and bacteria have evolved such that they are not affected by the sterilizers the hospitals daily apply to everything. So, if humans from the USA and other first world counties want to be able to consume foods that are grown with human waste they must re acclimate themselves to be able to do so. I started doing this so I would be able to drink water from natural streams about 30 years ago and now I can actually drink water from some of the streams in the USA that are contaminated with whatever Nature allows to be in the water with no side effects. My biggest concern is the unnatural chemicals and debris humans have created and allowed to get into the environment. I don't think there is any way any of us can acclimate to those toxins. The best we can do is try to filter them out, and, that is not easy.

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pistachio
7/21/2016 12:12 EST

Yikes !!

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