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Originally Posted by Ozric Jonathan

From what I can remember of some of the arguments on here years ago, food can't do any harm once it is far enough along the digestive tract.

Ed took a more extreme view of course. He said that food won't rot in a vacuum at 6 degrees centigrade. I'm not suggesting anyone hibernate a tort with a full stomach but I don't remember explaining how food can rot in vacuum at 6C.

This is what I have been lead to believe, that they don't empty the digestive tracked completely, but as long as it far down the gut, it won't rot and kill them. Mine have always wound down naturally ( except the babies) my old ones have just got on with it by themselves for the last 45 years, and they haven't died yet, and I wouldn't know if the gut is fully empty or not.