Can you eat maggots from a decaying body?

[feb]

I'm just interesting cos Max seems to do it with pleasure

[Ryuu]

I'd prefer dog food At least it's likely sterile.
Can't imagine what could you catch from decaying body, ewww

[Roiskereiska]

Yes you can, but if you don't cook them first they may start living in your body. They would probably be filled with bacteria that starts growing in a dead body, so you'd probably die in a few days.

[Doc_Scranton]

No if that were the case then the maggots would die. It's "Protein"it keeps the maggots and Humans alive. Vultures and all other life survive off carcase's. so why would we be affected. We all eat Slaughtered animals without question. Yet they are fed on dead meat?

[Cujo]

It depends on how old the body is. A fresh body probably wouldn't be teeming with maggots, but it also would represent the lowest chance of infection due to the stomach and gut walls containing the e-coli and other harmful bacteria, stopping them from spreading for a while.

Once the body is soft and rotted enough to allow maggots, those bacteria would have a greater likelyhood ftowards spreading.While the maggots themselves would be clean-ish, they would be covered in a film of bacteria with could harm you.

Probably better to stick with pizza for now. At least until the apocalypse.

[JoeyBaconz]

LMAO, until then , pizza rolls..........

[Doc_Scranton]

Originally posted by Cujo:

It depends on how old the body is. A fresh body probably wouldn't be teeming with maggots, but it also would represent the lowest chance of infection due to the stomach and gut walls containing the e-coli and other harmful bacteria, stopping them from spreading for a while.

Once the body is soft and rotted enough to allow maggots, those bacteria would have a greater likelyhood ftowards spreading.While the maggots themselves would be clean-ish, they would be covered in a film of bacteria with could harm you.

Probably better to stick with pizza for now. At least until the apocalypse.

Well said! But if your starving and nothing else is around? wouldn't you take that chance?

[crashonwar]

ill boil them first the grill and i might use some wine or any kind of alcohol o.0 if i really had to eat maggot, never without a drink ahah

[kbmodigity]

Originally posted by Roiskeläppä:

Yes you can, but if you don't cook them first they may start living in your body.

Thats why your mom always told you to chew your food well.

[Doc_Scranton]

Originally posted by kbmodigity:

Originally posted by Roiskeläppä:

Yes you can, but if you don't cook them first they may start living in your body.

Thats why your mom always told you to chew your food well.

Mashing them might make them easier to swallow. Each to their own.

[Oparator Stalker]

Yeah, you can eat magots! Also lizard and rat, but you have to stomp on them first, besides a can of dog food...

[kbmodigity]

No need to stomp on them. They have cheese in Italy with live maggots in em. Perfectly fine to eat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

[Oparator Stalker]

Originally posted by kbmodigity:

No need to stomp on them. They have cheese in Italy with live maggots in em. Perfectly fine to eat.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_marzu

Sorry I didn't mean to stomp on the magots. You have to stomp on the lizards or rats, they have to be killed first before you can munch them..

[Cujo]

Originally posted by Doc_Scranton:

Originally posted by Cujo:

It depends on how old the body is. A fresh body probably wouldn't be teeming with maggots, but it also would represent the lowest chance of infection due to the stomach and gut walls containing the e-coli and other harmful bacteria, stopping them from spreading for a while.

Once the body is soft and rotted enough to allow maggots, those bacteria would have a greater likelyhood ftowards spreading.While the maggots themselves would be clean-ish, they would be covered in a film of bacteria with could harm you.

Probably better to stick with pizza for now. At least until the apocalypse.

Well said! But if your starving and nothing else is around? wouldn't you take that chance?

Hell yes.

For example, in the wild, water should never be drunk straight from lakes or ponds because of dormant bacteria in the water that can kill you via dysentery and endless vomiting. However, the symptoms usually only are deadly after around 2 weeks, by which, if you aren't found, you most likely aren't gonna be. You may as well drink and hope to get found, because hospitals can pump you full of antibiotics and cure the bacterial infection in a day or two.

Pick running, clear water for the lowest chance of infection, especially small waterfalls. The bigger and faster the water source, the less chance of infection. Then glug away!