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

"J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> FarmI wrote:
>> "J. Clarke" <jclarke.usenet@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
>>> FarmI wrote:

>>>> Yes.  I'm sure you're old enough to remember Polio. It wasn't an
>>>> issue in the Western World until "germ free" became the vogue.  I
won't
>>>> give cupboard space to anything that says on the label that it's
>>>> antibacterial.

>>> And no doubt the Black Plague was due to being "germ free" as was
>>> the smallpox epidemic that nearly wiped out the native Americans.

>> Do try using some facts.  The Black Death or Bubonic Plague was not
>> 'due' to, 'germs'.  It is an infection which entered the bodies of
>> the victims when they were bitten by fleas.  Smallpox is not spread
>> or caused by germs. It is a virus.
>
> So being bitten by a flea which containes no plague germs gives one
> plague?  And a virus is not a germ?  Do tell.

No a virus is NOT a germ!  And fleas carrying disease are also not a germ.

Do tell how antibacterial substances can kill a virus which is not a 
bacteria and how it can kill a flea?