Don’t eat that!
The US has a new federal holiday. Juneteenth. Marking the abolition of slavery, I think. We didn’t get much advance press up here. Wort noting that it took many, many years to move beyond the actual event, all the way to a holiday on the calendar. Like anything new or novel, we’ll have to wait to see how this plays out.
On another subject, when someone tells you to eat shit, please don’t take it as great advice. In Alberta, a family entered a race against the clock when their baby ingested raccoon feces from a flower pot in the front yard. Don’t go into the details of how, or why. Rather, note that there is a very dangerous parasite that can be picked up this way, leading to blindness (among other things).
Now, the rub is that the required medication is not approved for use in Canada, so It required a special permit from higher powers (think Ottawa, not a deity). And when a drug doesn’t exist, at least in the legal sense, things get complicated. The pharmacist involved got out the textbooks, to prepare for a homebrew substitute. At the same time, he emailed others in his professional network, to second source the required medication. They even prepared for a cross-border shopping trip.
Complicated. Here, I’ll let you read the story from my source.
Just take this as a warning. Babies, like puppies and kittens, will eat unexpected finds. No other way of saying it. And animal feces aren’t on a baby’s list of foods to be avoided. Something akin to those terrible vegetables in tiny jars that used to set off a gag reflex for me, a generation ago.
