"Eric Takabayashi" <etakajp@yahoo.co.jp> wrote in message


>Yes, but we are talking about Japan. People who bitch about the US or WTO
are
>probably posting elsewhere.

Well either you consider it's Japan's problem, in that case, you have to
admit that's absolutely not the business of Canadian (?) dolphinophiles
(Should they not worry about the ESB and slaughter of lobsters ?)
....OR that's a problem that should be discussed globally.
Unfortunately, I see it's still decided -or not decided-country by country
while the issues are global (not only fish move but that becomes hard to
trace the origine of your food and nothing proves that Japanese contaminated
dolphin is not actually eaten in Mexico or London, etc).

> > A question of adaptation. The other day on TV, they showed a woman that
> > would have been eating earth for the last 5 years. 5 kg per day. She
seemed
> > healthy and said she had even taken weight...Then a Japanese doctor
> > explained she had the intestinal flora like that of a mimizu and now she
can
> > get nutriments directly from earth...I've rarely laught so much thanks
to
> > Japanese TV.
>
> But do you believe it?

Certainly not !
I know certain clays and rock salt are used to cook, but that's completely
different.
My grand-father told me about guys he met at the end of the war, Russians
(?) soldiers-prisoners-refugees-desertors (who knows ?) that had taken the
habit to eat grass and earth, to complete their alimentation, and they were
all in very very bad health condition(even for 1945 standards)had all the
illnesses caused by lack of vitamins and proteins.
The other thing is the woman on TV was eating earth she'd pick up anywhere
without boiling it. Hard to believe you survive long that way. You may have
heard of that illness that was common in Hawaii and Celtic countries as they
cooked their food in earth, and also tetanos you can get if you touch earth
while you have a wound on your hand.

>I've seen Chinese doctors on Japanese TV use medical
> test results and witness statements to prove that a Chinese university
student
> had not eaten anything in about ten years, as per her claims.

That's like Santa Teresa or I don't remember the others saints that lived 20
years without eating. That the Vatican or Japanese TV believes it makes me
nothing.

>So why don't such
> people subject themselves to scientific peer review, or even the Amazing
Randi,
> to claim his generous reward?

That's like Saibaba, and other cheats. The real ones accept scientific
investigation.

>Living without food would bring a revolution to
> humanity,

Sure.

>As well as riches for its creators, teachers or promoters.

Not sure. They all make more money with food, overeating and hunger.
There is already enough food to make all the human beings on earth
obese...and you see well, 3/4 of the world eat less than they should.
Probably the technologies to transform earth into complete "food" for
humans,  inside a laboratory already exist.

CC