NationStates Jolt Archive


I hope you're not eating when you read this.

Drunk commies reborn
05-05-2005, 23:22
www.news.com.au/story/0,010117,15186061-13762,00.html

I'm glad I don't live in Thailand and I'm not a pig farmer.
Kejott
05-05-2005, 23:24
I just happen to be eating at this moment. How messed up would you say it is on a scale from 1-10 for someone who has a strong stomach?
Robbopolis
05-05-2005, 23:26
The funny thing about this is that doctors are starting to use maggots medically. They don't eat live flesh, so doctors put them on a person to get rid of decaying flesh rather than going in surgically.
Pencil 17
05-05-2005, 23:26
They wouldn't have nested if there wasn't rotting flesh in there in the first place... maggots only eat dead tissue.
Drunk commies reborn
05-05-2005, 23:29
I just happen to be eating at this moment. How messed up would you say it is on a scale from 1-10 for someone who has a strong stomach?
There are no pictures. If you have a strong or even average stomach you should be OK.
Drunk commies reborn
05-05-2005, 23:29
The funny thing about this is that doctors are starting to use maggots medically. They don't eat live flesh, so doctors put them on a person to get rid of decaying flesh rather than going in surgically.
Depends on the type of fly that laid the eggs. Some maggots prefer live flesh.
Drunk commies reborn
05-05-2005, 23:32
They wouldn't have nested if there wasn't rotting flesh in there in the first place... maggots only eat dead tissue.
Here's a host of links to prove you wrong.
http://botfly.ifas.ufl.edu/links/links1.htm
Jaythewise
05-05-2005, 23:37
Hmm some maggots like live flesh why have these master maggots not spread throughout the world?
Drunk commies reborn
05-05-2005, 23:40
Hmm some maggots like live flesh why have these master maggots not spread throughout the world?
Well, they've been eradicated in the USA. So that's why we don't have them here. They like warm weather, so that's why they don't live in colder areas, you'll find them present everywhere else.
Greater Valia
05-05-2005, 23:53
Depends on the type of fly that laid the eggs. Some maggots prefer live flesh.

Like Screw-Worm maggots/flies.
Latverias
05-05-2005, 23:54
HA!!! Pitiful Pig farmer!!!! with her ilch!!!
Teh Cameron Clan
06-05-2005, 00:07
>.<
Potaria
06-05-2005, 00:09
That's gross. Yick.
German Nightmare
06-05-2005, 00:28
So what! So they found maggots in s.o.'s nose. I've seen scarier things than that - IRL. And the woman will live, so what's the bid deal?

Honestly, except for the thought that s.th. is eating its way to your brains - what else is so scary about it?

People who live around the sub-tropics or the tropics could probably tell you more stories about how simple cuts in their skin hosted more maggots than that.
Carbdown
06-05-2005, 00:45
Pthppt, I eat sausage raw yo. Most insects would die in your system.
Karas
06-05-2005, 01:07
The funny thing about this is that doctors are starting to use maggots medically. They don't eat live flesh, so doctors put them on a person to get rid of decaying flesh rather than going in surgically.

The maggots used in medicine are a specific variety that is specially bred to be sterile for medical use. Hosptials don't use just any maggots.

http://www.smtl.co.uk/WMPRC/Maggots/maggots.html