 Drinking Urine, Who does that?! |
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 Apr 10 2009, 05:46 PM
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Just Doin' My Thing  Group: Activist Posts: 1,479 Joined: 26-June 03 Member No.: 495  |
All right, so I was reading my local grocery co-op's monthly newsletter today, and it read about drinking your own urine (or a friend's)...I mean, in a supportive way. In fact, there have been several members who have contacted the co-op curious if they would soon be serving urine-based drinks at the juice bar (Note: they will not be doing this.)
So obviously (well, not really.) there must be some alleged health benefits that are making these dreadlocked 'buy local' folks crave pee-smoothies. Anybody know anything about this? Is it a health thing, or are they just doing there part to combat the fresh-water crisis? |
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Apr 10 2009, 10:46 PM
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 Xanada Bound Group: Activist Posts: 1,691 Joined: 22-December 02 Member No.: 125 |
I think there are some people who believe it has curative (that a word?) effects. I don't know to what extent it does have those properties though. Drink it because of the fresh water crisis? Then only as a gesture i think since you can't go on drinking it a lot to survive. I think
 Maybe you could ask your co-op why they said that. -------------------- Yin To Your Yang All of those rocks there, all of them, Thrown at us for as long as we can remember. All of our dreams, all of them, Flattened and crushed, as soon as they start taking shape. Ah baby, who do they take us for. Battered and bruised, constantly, relentlessly. Killing? Not their aim. Keeping us in an unimportant place is what this is about. Ah baby, who do they think we are. |
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Apr 13 2009, 03:17 PM
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Junior Activist Group: Activist Posts: 6 Joined: 13-April 09 Member No.: 7,408 |
In South America Ancient Shaman would ingest the Amanita Muscaria mushroom, and then urinate into a gourd or some such thing, and then the villagers would drink the urine, to experience the *purified* effects of the mushroom (as Amanitas cause severe convulsions and discomfort when eaten raw, which the Shaman would experience, for the sake of others who would then drink his pee and not experience the discomfort).
Funny that the villagers didn't know what we know now, which is if you sun-bake or fire-cook an Amanita, it looses its poison, and retains its intoxicatants, and so there was no real need to drink pee. :- ) Also, in Ancient times drinking ones own urine was a way to measure the toxicity of ones self, and i suppose in modern times it could be as well. |
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