Do I have to wash fruit and vegetables I grow myself if I haven't used pesticide? Haven't used anything.
Right now it's cherries.
I used to have two apple trees but they were killed by cedar apple rush.
Some ugly bushes are dying so I may plant something else too, but now I'm mostly concerned about cherries.
All the cherry maggots will be inside - washing won't help.
Histoplasmosis and cryptococcosis are two fungal diseases that can be acquired through inhalation of infected bird feces, while gastroenteritis (vomiting and diarrhea) can be caused by accidental consumption of a variety of different bacteria found in bird feces.
Eat away.
John T.
Washing gets the soot and bird shit off of them.
As a kid, I didn't wash anything. Bird shit and spider webs would warrant a quick rub across the thigh of my dirty jeans or the front of my even dirtier t-shirt. Stuff that came out of the ground, like carrots, radishes, and horseradish, just got a few rubs to remove most of the dirt. On multiple occasions, I bit into an apple and found a live worm at the core. Once I bit into an apple and found half of a worm, writhing in pain because the other half of his body just got cut off. I still finished eating the apple.
The other day I opened one of those little boxes of raisins and it was alive with little worms. Hundreds of them. I googled it and G said essentially all raisins have the eggs, so it's just a matter of time whether they hatch or not. You can soak the raisins in a bowl of water, slightly salted is even better, to encourage the worms to swim for safety. Strawberries have the same problem and the same solution - a bowl of salt water.
How come as kids we didn't need to wash anything before sticking it in our mouth but as adults we do? Is it mostly social conditioning?
You're my kind of guy.
I used to eat raisins all the time, an 12oz. box every day. Never sow worms. I wouldn't have thought to use water. I would have spread them out and blown on the worms to get them to leave. That works with gnats on bananas when you leave them partly eaten for a few hours.
Absolutely. If you dont' associate with other people, you can avoid most of it.
On Fri, 28 May 2021 12:02:11 -0500, Jim Joyce posted for all of us to digest...
Are kids even allowed to play in dirt any more?
I used to eat raisins, do they all have worms, should I be tested? My wife eats strawberries, do they all have worms, should she be tested? What should the tests be? The vet deworms the cat because she eats mice.
Reading and writing all this has my stomach in turmoil!
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