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HerbGrower@slrpnk.net 3 days agoPeople eat clay sometimes. IIRC its a famine thing used to bulk out actual food to make it feel slightly more filling.
Pills are tiny. Wtf do you think the soil is contaminated with?
Jarix@lemmy.world 3 days ago
I’m sure they do but not without problems
E coli, anthrax, Lead, mercury, oil, piss, shit, fungus, spores, mold, fucking anything really. You have no idea what’s gone into the ground or what it contains. Even if it’s “probably” safe why not use a much easier already approved product that has 0 risk associated with it
Unless you are running it through some spectrum analyzer or whatever and have a process to then purify it, it’s a bad idea to just ingest something you dug up. And why bother not starting with already human grade ingestible material that you also probably have in your kitchen.
Harmful substances are many orders of magnitude smaller than the tiniest pill.
And no shovels required