I’m curious about what the Breatharians say about a kids diet? Do they believe that children can develop and grow up healthy by just surviving on air? How do they explain a newborn’s instinct to suckle if the newborn doesn’t even need to eat for nourishment?
Mmmm . . . CO[Sub]2[/SUB] . . .
Thankfully, I can’t find them suggesting that you starve babies to prevent them from getting hooked on food. They may be insane, but at least they have enough sense to be just hypocritcal enough to avoid getting sued into the ground.
Also, here’s a short article from the Guardian that addresses the idea that Breatharianism is related to anorexia and other eating disorders.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/print/0,3858,3906584-103625,00.html
I think it was the American philosopher P. J. O’Rouke who pointed out:
"In the postwar era, two were born every minute.
LOL. Where’d he say that? I couldn’t find it in google.
Those first few links in this thread feature Wiley Brooks, of course. In the early eighties, I heard an interview with him on a Boulder CO radio station, espousing the breatharian philosophy, and explaining how he subsists on only air. After a break, the interviewer came back on and started yelling something like, “Hey, this guy is eating, right here in the studio!” and Wiley was protesting, “No, I’m not.”
Aha! The truth comes out.
Breatharianism is nothing more than a convenient excuse for getting laid.
I guess in a way they’re right. If everyone stops having sex the human race will die out.
ANd despite the breatharians’ apparent claim, there ain’t exactly all that much H[Sub]2[/SUB] in the Earth’s atmosphere.
Yeah, but there’s a bunch of H[Sub]2[/Sub]O, which should do alright, so long as it isn’t liquid.
It’s the other minerals (Fe being a very important one) that are a little hard to come by in the atmosphere. Let’s see, there’s also Ca (bones) and P (nucleic acids) just to name two more.
Actually, I was thinking of some of the other possibilities, like breatharian drugs. The gas N[Sub]2[/Sub]O comes to mind… 
I first heard about these people when I was a kid. Before I knew what the Weekly World News was really like, I saw an article in it about extremists who hijacked a French truck full of fruits and vegetables and dumped it into a river, claiming that farming (force-planting plants and then harvesting the results) was cruel to the plants, and interfered with their natural right to grow and reproduce without the hand of humanity in it.
Even at that young age, I was confused. Such people would obviously not want to eat meat. So what would they eat?
I asked my mother this, and she suggested, “maybe they’re Breatharians.” She proceeded to describe what they believed, and I wondered whether people this terminally stupid and/or hypocritical existed.
As I became less naive, I realized that the answer was very definitely “yes.”
I remember about 1980 there was a lot of press here in L.A. about the Breatharians. At one point during the hype, reporters found Wiley Brooks eating at McDonald’s. When they called him on it he said that he wasn’t really eating because what they serve at McDonald’s isn’t really food. I have to agree with him there.
Breatharianism.
Probably not a cure for world hunger, but a downright miracle cure for overpopulation.
Well newborns’ instincts to suckle derive from their instinctive knowledge that the air that their breathing isn’t pure enough for them to live on, see?
There is always an answer.
From the skeptics link:
:rolleyes: :wally
Waaaaahahahaha! That one almost killed me.
<sniff> Whew!
Uh huh. And the rest of the Periodic Table is just for show?
Hmm… wonder if Breatharians suffer from gas… 
That’s their Soup Kitchen Ministry.
Okay, that’s my new favorite post ever.
I suppose if any Breatharian kids come by the house on Halloween night, the best thing to give them is …
… what, bubble wrap?
I read about Breatharians in a comic book in 1990. The comic was a satire, so I assumed that the author(s) had made it up. What Shade said.
So I have this great idea of marketing bottled ‘boutique air’ to breatharians. I will call it Eviair or somesuch.
It will contain a unique, specially selected blend of natures own gases - oxygen of course, some carbon dioxide for a bit of bite, traces of SO[sub]2[/sub] and H[sub]2[/sub]S for a more complex nose, some argon and neon, and so that its not too rich a good helping of nitrogen.
This can be blended from high quality specialty gases …aw bugger it, I’ll just fart in a bottle.