Re: Anchorage Daily News Officials suspect botulism as villagers fall

[Guest guest]

I picked up on the below paragraph. It seems the old ways served them

better then using the new fangled plastic bags or containers.

Robin

<<Traditionally, Alaska Natives fermented their food by placing it in

pits. But in more recent years, they started putting the food in

airtight plastic bags or containers that create an anaerobic, or

oxygen-free, environment in which the botulism-making bacteria can

grow.>>