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@cherokeepatti What parasites can one catch in North America or Europe? I've been barefoot every summer for decades without catching anything and was frequently barefoot in gardens and fields as a child, never caught anything then either.

@ninalanyon There are a lot. Roundworms for one especially in farm areas even around the yard. Considering how many types hogs carry, especially wild hogs (nearly 40 types) in rural areas, and polluting streams, rivers, lakes and ponds. People will swim in those waters and catch things. I live in Oklahoma and there are wild hogs in every county. I read several years ago that one county had eradicated them but they can move. Bears can also spread parasites and other wild animals too. People can have parasites and hurt and don’t know what is causing it. Happened to a man here in my city who suffered debilitating back pain for years. He went to over 2 dozen doctors and was about to give up because every one said the same thing, they couldn’t find anything wrong with his back. Only prescribed pain meds. Someone told him about a chiropractor in Wichita Kansas who might be able to help & he made a trip up there. The chiropractor examined him and did a blood test. He was told he had a parasite that bored through his intestine & lodged near his spine. Gave him 2 pills and that ended the pain for good. A good percentage of cancers are thought to be caused by parasites, some are being cured by taking a dewormer that is marketed for dogs. Joe Tippens, from Edmond Oklahoma, is one. He had end-stage cancer and had undergone over a million dollars in tests & treatments and was finally told he had 3 months to live. A veterinarian told him about the dewormer and that it might cure him. He took it and a year later was still alive and doing well, that was a few years ago and he is still cancer-free. You can get parasites from food, raw fish (such as sushi), farm-raised salmon & other farm-raised fish, pork, and even vegetables that are not washed good or have been raised in fields where humans have polluted it with raw sewage are a few examples.

@cherokeepatti Do farmers really still use raw sewage for fertiliser? I don't think that is done in the UK or Norway any more.

@ninalanyon Cow manure and chicken manure. Sheep can graze on wheat stubble after harvest throughout the fall and winter and that is very strong fertilizer that they leave behind. All of those generally doesn’t cause a problem with parasites. Hog manure and human sewage can be a big problem. Can’t control easily where wild hogs wander. They’ll even find their way into towns and dig up a front yard sometimes. It’s legal to shoot them and some use tennerite after trapping them in a pen with food to blow up groups of them, that’s how bad they can get in rural areas and cause a lot of destruction.

@ninalanyon A lot of our food in the USA is being imported, especially from Mexico. It’s not unusual to have recalls due to outbreaks of illness. Strawberries grown in Baja, California is a good example. Growing them in valleys surrounded by populated hills surrounding the area is a good way to get food crops exposed to human sewage since there is no infrastructure in those areas to take care of that sewage. Even fishing from the coast is very risky due to the runoff.

@cherokeepatti Yuck!

@ninalanyon what we need is more small family farms like we had in the 1960’s. There are only about 25% now compared to what we had back then. Family farmers won’t sell anything that their family wouldn’t deem fit to consume themselves. My uncle used to say that when we were on the farm. When corporations take over farming everything changes.