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Grass juice is excellent for de-toxing the system. The trick is to drink lots of water with it to clear the toxins. Grass of certain varieties- wheat grass ?

Poor people living in regions where there isn't a famine tend to eat much more healthily except in the West where junk-food is a poor people's staple diet. Macdonalds is really making an attempt to get away from it's malbouffe image.
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Do you think Macdonalds should serve grass?
 
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Isn't grass soup served in the Golden Arches in North Korea?
Or did you mean grass ?
 
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Back home, my mom used to make pies made of some greens - looked like grass, I loved them...
These are some of the greens it used to have:



All of them used to grow on our yard, so it was free..
And most of the sicknesses my mom used to treat with some dried grass that she would make tea of. It worked.

Vegeterian food that poor people usually eat is sure healtier fiber and vitaminwise, but they still need proteins, fat, calcium, etc.

By the way, I love Mcdonald's, I think they shouldn't change anything.
 
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That looks like dandelion (Top left) and mint (bottom left) to me. I've no idea what plant is in the other picture.

As they say "a weed is a weed until some use is found for it". You should save your mother's recipes for posterity with notes of the ills she treated.
We have started getting salads and fresh fruit served in MacDonalds. They have hired a top French chef to re-educate our taste buds - following on from the publicity from "Super-Size Me".
Fries and Quarter Pounder with Cheese is still their best seller.
 
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Originally posted by Rita Moore:

Vegeterian food that poor people.



FYI, Veg dishes are expensive then non-veg dishes. And being vegetarian costs much more than being non-vegetarian.

And I personally feel that society that prefer non-veg were once poor(economically) society.

PS: I eat all kind of edibles.
 
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Originally posted by R K Singh:


FYI, Veg dishes are expensive then non-veg dishes. And being vegetarian costs much more than being non-vegetarian.

And I personally feel that society that prefer non-veg were once poor(economically) society.

PS: I eat all kind of edibles.



Which geographical region are you talking about? It is true in US, and probably Europe, but definately not everywhere in the world.

You have to go visit countries in Central Asia, where 1 kilogram of meat cost 1/5 of monthly salary and apple trees are 2 meters apart from each other and sidewalks are covered with melons. But Nuts, Soy and other Beans are usually more expensive than meat.

Veg food is usually more expensive in places where it is too cold or hard to grow plants from some other reason, and in those countries where people prefer veg food to meat, because they can get needed nutrition some ways other than meat.
 
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Originally posted by Rita Moore:


You have to go visit countries in Central Asia, where 1 kilogram of meat cost 1/5 of monthly salary and apple trees are 2 meters apart from each other and sidewalks are covered with melons. But Nuts, Soy and other Beans are usually more expensive than meat.


In south India apple is more expensive than meat.
 
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Originally posted by Balaji Loganathan:

In south India apple is more expensive than meat.



South India is in Central Asia?
I meant Post-USSR countries.
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Originally posted by Rita Moore:
Back home, my mom used to make pies made of some greens - looked like grass, I loved them...



When I was in college in the mid-70s, some people used to bake brownies with grass in it; the grass looked like hemp.
 
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I used to smoke Grass.
 
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Originally posted by John Dunn:
I used to smoke Grass.



Now that's healthy. You should propose that to McDonald's.
 
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Originally posted by Helen Thomas:
That looks like dandelion (Top left) and mint (bottom left) to me. I've no idea what plant is in the other picture.

As they say "a weed is a weed until some use is found for it". You should save your mother's recipes for posterity with notes of the ills she treated.




I don't know names of the plants in english. Otherwise i remember all of them and for which sicknesses she used them.
In fact the first year in US, I kept asking people why they ignore those plants growing on the sidewalks, because they could be used as medicine.

I once had an inflamed wound in my leg, I was about 11 years old. No medication would help and we tried for weeks different stuff, finally my mom found a leaf that grows everywhere, called Podorojnik in russian, that leaf cured it in 2-3 days.

Another story - when I was 5 I fell down very badly and got huge cut on my face. Doctors were telling my mom to take me to put stitches.
She was afraid I would get an ugly scar that would get bigger as I would grow, so she instead took me home and got me lots of vegetables for vitamins and some grass that she was applying on my face 2-3 times a day. I have the scar that is invisible unless you stratch my skin in that area and look closely, stitches wouldn't dissapear like that.

So I'm very thankfull to grass
 
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Dandelion and mint tea are popular. Mint is used as a herb.

Compacted straw is used to build walls of residence homes. I think it's still experimental but I've heard of a few more buildings since this house of straw
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When I was a lonely teenager I once fashioned a girl from straw. She went everywhere with me and, for that summer, I was the happiest boy alive (although a little scratched in places...ahem).

It ended tragically on 5 November when I took her to the local fireworks display. After we were wowed with the explosions and pretty lights, she was suddenly snatched from my loving arms and thrust into the fire. I watched in horror as she burnt away while the crowd cheered and clapped.

Since then I can't pass a haystack without feeling a tug at my heart and loins. My girlfriends since have wondered about the grass skirts and straw hats they recieved as gifts from me but, until now, I have never had the courage to tell the truth. Thank you Javaranch.
 
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Salvia Divinorum, barely legal in the US:

 
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Originally posted by Frank Silbermann:
When I was in college in the mid-70s, some people used to bake brownies with grass in it; the grass looked like hemp.



Did you know Alice B. Toklas?
 
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marijuana decriminalised In Canada

Canada's Liberal government reintroduced legislation on Monday to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, drawing criticism that this could prompt a clampdown at the U.S. border.



Decriminalising marijuana is madness. It shouldn't be allowed.Canadians are crackpots.

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Originally posted by Helen Thomas:
marijuana decriminalised In Canada Canada's Liberal government reintroduced legislation on Monday to decriminalize the possession of small amounts of marijuana, drawing criticism that this could prompt a clampdown at the U.S. border.

Decriminalising marijuana is madness. It shouldn't be allowed.Canadians are crackpots.

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It's only fair. We refuse to register handguns, a few of which get smuggled across the border, and the Canucks decriminalize marijuana, some of which finds its way down here. I'd rather put up with more marijuana, despite its harmfulness, than to accept gun registration.

But the description of addiction is intriguing; why isn't there a drug that makes you feel lousy every time you take it, with the long term effect that you get used to it -- and then when you stop, you feel good all the time?
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The thinking behind decriminalisation is the belief that "punishment" for for behaviour should not cause society more problems than the behaviour itself.

Labelling peaceful social smokers 'criminal' can effect career opportunities, cause great stress and lead to a growing mistrust of the legal and enforcement establishment. Repeat this over and over again over several generations and you see an erosion of respect for the law and an increased "comfort" at the idea of breaking the law...

The alternative is to have a people sitting peacefully having the occasional toke... Most of whom will simply grow out of the habit and move on, without harming anyone!

Furthermore - the decriminalising of canabis helps to seperate this particular drug from other more destructive drugs. When the Dutch decriminalised cannabis they saw a drop in the number of heroin users whilst heroin use in the rest of europe soared. Can this really be a bad thing?

Wouldnt the US like to stop its kids from getting into social circles with organised criminal?.. Let them get cannabis from the shops and stop them getting familiar with the criminal underworld - perhaps Crack usage might drop?
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