igor_kavinski
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Mushrooms can seriously mess you up. I got nephritis from eating those kinda bad looking dark brownish black mushrooms (their name wasn't written on the plastic container) from a local supermarket. Messed me up so bad that my feet and face swelled up with fluid, I lost the ability to sleep and I had phosphorus escaping my skin pores which feels worse than itching. Had to go on a 6 day fruit juice only diet and then almost two years of plant based diet to recover from that damage and let my kidneys heal enough to not need a transplant. Later found out that mushrooms should not be eaten if you have uncontrolled diabetes because they are rich in a sugar called D-Ribose that diabetic blood is already overflowing with and more of it just accelerates damage to the nephrons in the kidney. Be 100% percent sure that the mushrooms you are about to put in your mouth will have no detrimental effects.I've been to Bad Mushroom Town before, once. You really don't want to visit. Felt compelled to pass this along as I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here who forages from time to time. Careful guys.
I would love one of these, except I don't need to go 80mph as much as I need one that is rated to carry more than 175 pounds.
I have never eaten raw morels. That was the common factor in both of the examples in that article, and morels from the same shipment that went to California restaurants had no reported illnesses, and they had at a minimum thoroughly heated them.Wat. Yikes. True morels can mess you up!
"On Thursday, Montana health officials published an outbreak analysis of poisonings linked to the honeycombed fungi in March and April of last year. The outbreak sickened 51 people who ate at the same restaurant, sending four to the emergency department. Three were hospitalized and two died."
"This all strongly points to the morels being responsible. At the time, the state and local health officials engaged the FDA, as well as the CDC, to help tackle the outbreak investigation. But the FDA reported that "samples of morel mushrooms collected from the restaurant were screened for pesticides, heavy metals, toxins, and pathogens. No significant findings were identified." In addition, the state and local health officials noted that DNA sequencing identified the morels used by the restaurant as Morchella sextelata, a species of true morel. This rules out the possibility that the mushrooms were look-alike morels, called "false morels," which are known to contain a toxin called gyromitrin."
I've been to Bad Mushroom Town before, once. You really don't want to visit. Felt compelled to pass this along as I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one here who forages from time to time. Careful guys.
I wouldn't mind seeing country of origin listed on menus for all ingredients at restaurants. Individual ingredients would be burdensome, but broad categories would tell me what I want to know. eg. beef from USA and Argentina, vegetables from Mexico and Ecuador, and spices from USA, India, Indonesia, and China(red flag!).along with buying morels out of China
I recently found out that with fruit juice, it's not on the label but actually imprinted on the plastic bottle - country of orgin as far as the fruit itself, not necessarily where it's bottled.I wouldn't mind seeing country of origin listed on menus for all ingredients at restaurants. Individual ingredients would be burdensome, but broad categories would tell me what I want to know. eg. beef from USA and Argentina, vegetables from Mexico and Ecuador, and spices from USA, India, Indonesia, and China(red flag!).
That would be virtually impossible to enforce, and unethical owners will simply print what they think the customer wants to see, but maybe truly random inspections with stiff penalties for mislabeling would deter some.
I have a strict policy of not buying Chinese for anything that goes in, or on my body. I've fucked up a couple times by not reading the labels, and ate the food anyway, but I wasn't happy about it.
