Originally Posted By: Treeseeker
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In addition, any raw food has risk of contamination as well. People die from lettuce from the supermarket.


I think you are referring to bacterial contamination by other humans which would be unlikely in such a remote area.

Also, the seeds he was eating were not contaminated, they contained a toxic chemical. Cooking would not fix this.


And you boil/treat/filter your water for no reason?

My point wasn't about what happened in this specific case, my point is things can go wrong even if what you are eating isn't supposed to be toxic.

-john