One scene depicts many people eating poo.
Facts from Wikipedia on eating poo:
Centuries ago, physicians used to taste
their patients' excretions, to better
judge their state and condition.[6]
Fecal bacteriotherapy is when feces from a close relative or
spouse are given to patients suffering from intractable diarrhea caused by Clostridium difficile. The purpose
is to repopulate the intestines with the normal gut flora (intestinal bacteria) to decimate
the clostridium. The healthy stool is administered by nasogastric
tube, enema, or in a capsule.
Consuming other
people's
feces carries the
risk of contracting diseases and bacteria spread through fecal matter, such as E.
coli, Hepatitis
A, Hepatitis
E, pneumonia, polio, and influenza. Coprophagia
also carries a risk of contracting intestinal parasites.
Lewin (2001)
reports that "... consumption of fresh, warm camel feces has been
recommended by Bedouins as a remedy
for bacterial dysentery; its efficacy
(probably attributable to the antibiotic subtilisin from Bacillus
subtilis) was confirmed
by German
soldiers in Africa during World
War II."[7] The
introduction of foreign bacteria into the human GI tract via infusion of fecal
enemas is, moreover, an established medical practice in cases of ulcerative
colitis, especially where the patient's own intestinal flora has been
significantly depleted by antibiotic therapy applied for other maladies.[8]
From the
psychiatry literature, coprophagia has been observed in a small number of
patients with schizophrenia,[9] depression,[10] and pica.[11]
