respect for camels

[Jon Ford]

Wayne-- not only is camel urine cleaner than most water to be found in the 
desert, it is 90% water anyway, so it's a case of the old adage-- recycle, 
recyle, recycle! You just don't waste valuable drinking water washing down 
an infant out there in the sands!

Jon


>From: "Wayne Johnson" <cadaobh2@brgnet.com>
>To: "tejas" <tbsamsel@infi.net>, <austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net>
>Subject: RE: respect for camels
>Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2001 09:32:26 -0500
>
>Tuaregs, I believe, used to wash off their newborn infants in fresh camel
>urine.  At first I thought this was really disgusting, but then, when you
>think about the bacteria and crap in the actual water, using a camel-kidney
>filter didn't seem so dumb after all.   Gee, it just pee anyway.
>
>W
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net
>[mailto:austin-ghetto-list-admin@pairlist.net]On Behalf Of tejas
>Sent: Monday, December 03, 2001 5:12 AM
>To: austin-ghetto-list@pairlist.net
>Subject: Re: respect for camels
>
>
>Wasn't camel dung usde to cure Latakia tobacco?
>(Thus Joe Camel?)
>
>Ted Samsel
>
>tbsamsel@infi.net
>http://home.infi.net/~tbsamsel
>
>
>


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