A Gardeners Forum Forums Members History Forum Life 2005 Oh, man...this is bad!

Cricket sugar gliders make great pets. They need a lot of attention have bonding pouches you put them in. I take mine to Pets Mart etc in the pouch. As you can see I have too they were both discards I took in. Just like my birds and Iguana's were discards what I call throw aways. People get them then don't want them. Yes I'm a sucker for most animals. MY dogs were also abandoned my wife took in and found homes for all of Gods creatures.

JV, I wish I lived closer to you so you could send your overflow of critters my way if you didn't have room for anymore!

Check this out, G-Mom...
...from a study of how much rodent poop was found in randomly tested stuff from the supermarket.
You probably don't want to even hear what the amounts were.

Here's a list of key words I found...
food safety; food sanitation; disease prevention; rodents; food products; food analysis; food contamination; excreta; mice; human health; feces

I've been googling a lot of this stuff myself and I must say--it's totally disgusting.....makes me not want to eat anything at all---but I food too much.

And as far as fear factor goes I think they are all for doing that stuff for a mere 50,000.......some of that stuff is soooooooo disgusting that I can barely watch them do it... Especially those madagascar hissing cockroaches, or those cave dwelling spiders, and laying in that box covered in rats.....ewwww.

EEEEEWWWWW

Check this out!

WARNING! Not for the squeamish!
For example...
Tomato Puree:
Average of 20 or more fly eggs per 100 grams
OR
10 or more fly eggs and 1 or more maggots per 100 grams
OR
2 or more maggots per 100 grams in a minimum of 12 subsamples

Loz, the stuff that they eat on Fear Factor are actually things that people in places around the world eat. They have a staff specifically for going around the world and finding cultures who eat things that our culture wouldn't think of. Just on Oprah this week, she did her tour around the world and there was a place...might have been Norway...can't remember...maybe Greenland...they eat sheep testicles...and I've seen that on Fear Factor.

afgreyparrot: You would be welcome to them. I rescued two gerbils yesterday called my granddaughter gave them to her boys. I have turned my extra bedroom into a room for my Iguana's(cage is 6'tall 6' long and 2'wide with heaters and lights on timers)and a seeding room where I start me seedlings.

Cindy, I am now truly disgusted and may never eat again--who knew that that it was that bad???...... :rolleyes: I was reading the stuff off the list to mark and he said, Loz you shouldn't read that--you're a panic a holic and you won't want to eat that stuff anymore...... :p He knows me so well.... I suppose this could become the new diet that helps you drop a few pounds......the go and read the disgusting food facts diet......

And I was just going to pop some popcorn until I read that about rodent excreta pellets.....

eeeewwwww!!! for those of you that drink beer (not me! to young and hate the smell of the stuff) *HOPS Insects
(AOAC 967.23) Average of more than 2,500 aphids per 10 grams
*I like to eat peanut butter by the spoon sometimes...ummm???....PEANUT BUTTER Insect filth
(AOAC 968.35) Average of 30 or more insect fragments per 100 grams
Rodent filth
(AOAC 968.35) Average of 1 or more rodent hairs per 100 grams
GROSS!!!!
*and ewwww!!POPCORN Rodent filth
(AOAC 950.91) 1 or more rodent excreta pellets are found in 1 or more subsamples, and 1 or more rodent hairs are found in 2 or more other subsamples
OR
2 or more rodent hairs per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples
OR
20 or more gnawed grains per pound and rodent hair is found in 50% or more of the subsamples
**ok gross :p

But alcohol sterilizes everything, right?

Dianna

Yeah, Dianna! That's what I keep telling myself!

Cheers!

omg, like totally EW!!! I remember this happening to us a few times:

My dad was teaching me how to cook speghetty, and we put the noodles in the boiling water. After about 2 minutes we noticed small red things floating to the top of the water. Then we noticed the small red things had eyes o.O They were bugz!!!

But that's okay ^.^ its just protine

...

...with legs :p

But ya, that happened twice, and we stopped buying speghetty from that store lol.

~Phoebe

I don't think I could eat a bug for any amount of money! That Jerusalem cricket really looks nasty.

Fear Factor is not a good thing to watch while you are eating supper. Makes me sick to my stomach just watching them eat what shouldn't be eaten.

Dianna

Sad part is, you probably eat about 15 a day that you aren't even aware of.

Freaky!

AND..at night!!! They say that in a year the average person swollows up to 3 spiders and/or flies while they are sleeping.

It said "average" person, G-Mom!
We ain't average.
Wonder how many us loonies swallow?

Maybe we need to invent a "Bug Repellant Mouthwash"

G-Mom

You just had to remind me of that, didn't you, Cindy! Aargh! I may become anorexic!

G-mom, when you patent the bug mouthwash, let me know! I will buy the first bottle!

Dianna

I already did!

The cure might be worse than the problem...I just went searching for plants that repel spiders and discovered that lavender and garlic work quite well...don't know how they'd taste together though :p I wonder if the scent of lavender would cancel out the "scent" of garlic

yick..
to think most of us eat processed foods.

Wow this was a good thread to read while im sittin here eating my lunch! :p

Kareena

Kareena...

I'm only doing this because you're G-Mom's daughter,

and I think you can handle it!


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Cindy

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew its coming out its nose too!