Re: OFF: Red Meat Stinkiness

> Date:         Thu, 15 Jun 2000 21:40:20 -0700
> From: Barry Garcia <Barry_Garcia@...>
>
> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >Eatin' too much red meat is a
> >major culprit in stinking. Redmeat takes a long time to digest. Red meat
> >rots
> >in the gut while digesting (so I am told).
>
> Reminds me of fanatical vegan propaganda (not a slight towards any vegans
> or vegetarians here) intended to make the squirmish among carnivores not
> want to eat meat (it doesnt bother me, i've helped with a necropsy on week
> dead sea mammals before. Trust me, after that not much will gross you
> out). Actually, anything that ends up in your intestines gets attacked by
> the bacteria (yes, even plant matter that makes it past the stomach). They
> digest it and yes, basically it rots (that's what rotting and fermentation
> basically is kiddies, the breakdown of matter by bacteria and other
> organisms ;)).
I've seen the same idea from the crackpot who invented deep colonic
irrigation (or whatever he called it). He claimed that meat would take
literally months (or was it years) to pass.

Lars Mathiesen (U of Copenhagen CS Dep) <thorinn@...> (Humour NOT marked)