Re: 100 Pounds of Food/Year From a 12 Square Foot Plot?

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 "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Profoundly stupid thing to say.

> And no doubt the Black Plague 
Spread to Europe by the late 1340s. It is thought to have returned to 
Europe every generation with varying virulence and mortalities until the 
1700s.
> was due to being "germ free" as was the 
> smallpox epidemic that nearly wiped out the native Americans.
Begining in 1492.

Louis Pasture demonstrated in 1859 that the fermentation process is 
caused by the growth of microorganisms . . .
Along with his contem****ary, Robert Koch, Pasteur was an early advocate 
of the germ theory of disease.
Koch finally proved the germ theory, for which he was awarded a Nobel 
Prize in 1905. (!!!, How far we have come in so short a time.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death

Cholera arrived in Britain for the first time in the autumn of 
1831. The fourth outbreak occurred in 1854, when thirty thousand 
died in London alone. From looking at London maps, it became 
apparent that people who got their household water from the Thames 
up stream from sewage discharges had few cases of cholera than 
those who received water down stream from the sewer discharges.
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2006/11/06/061106crbo_books

Who would have guessed drinking **** would have made you sick? It
would be another five years before Pasture proposed that
micro-organisms could affect health.
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http://google-sina.com/2008/04/25/when-cleanliness-becomes-too-clean/

When Cleanliness Becomes Too Clean

As a child, I can remember my mother always saying that a little dirt 
wouldn¹t hurt me. Now, it seems that this really may be true. Our 
obsession with cleanliness may be the cause of even more cases of 
allergies and asthma being found.New York - The ³Hygiene Hypothesis² is 
what the doctors are saying is the root of more allergic diseases. This 
means that the cleaner we become, the more we remove necessary bacteria 
that would help bolster our immune systems against disease.

Dr. Joseph Flanagan, an Allergist says,

    ³You need some exposure to some bacteria to train the immune system. 
If our environment is too clean and antiseptic we may not get the chance 
to have that proper training of the immune system.²
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Hygiene hypothesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis

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The same holds true for milk. Pasteurized milk (ironic, eh?) is 
defenseless against infectious organisms, whereas raw milk 
contains lactobacillus, which will lower milks pH, and protects 
it against bacterial infection.

So ignorance is only bliss, when it is folly to be wise, and 
knowledge still requires judgement.

It would appear J. that somewhere between imbibing infectious
organisms, and wiping every surface in your house down with Lysol, 
there lies a desired middle ground.

I hope I have helped you;-)
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Billy
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