The Masai live in the wild in homes made of mud, sticks, grass, cow dung, human urine and ash, and their diet is animal blood, meat and milk.
Hazardous radionuclides such as iodine-131, caesium 137, and other isotopes currently being released in the sea and air around Fukushima bio-concentrate at each step of various food chains (for example into algae, crustaceans, small fish, bigger fish, then humans; or soil, grass, cow's meat and milk, then humans).
But something sinister is lurking in the grass: cow feces crawling with disease-causing Escherichia coli bacteria.
Kwari et al. (1991) found that the incorporation of grass cow dung into the soils in Borno state improved the cation exchange capacity of the soils.
Women are also responsible for constructing the Maasai huts, which are made of branches, grass, cow dung and urine.
Grass photosynthesises, cows eat the grass, we eat the cows.
One can almost taste the grass the cows ate.
There were very many trees, there was much grass and cows, hence abundant milk," he says.
Sometimes, it is deposited on grass, where cows take it up during grazing and their bodies absorb it into the fat cells, where it gradually accumulates.
