I Stand for Sand by Carol Brown

If we were to eat sand, would we receive the sensation of fullness? Would the miniscule grains of rock provide the necessary weight in order to trigger the mental picture of a content stomach? I say it would. We do not need nutrients to feel gratified. We could feel as gratified by filling our stomach with sand as we would with beef, rice, jam, or ice cream. We don’t need to eat food to feel full, I say, we do not!
There is but one leash I would guide you buy; and that is the leash of reason. I have spent more than an idle afternoon with my thoughts on this subject. And the result of my thoughts is the confidant knowledge that it is not the quality of a food that creates the sensation of fullness, but the quantity. Can a sane person assign any other possible reasons for it? After all, does your stomach feel full after digesting, or after eating? I say it is after eating. So the nutritional content of the food cannot have any impact on the feeling of fullness.
I have been told of the dangers of eating sand, and the havoc it would perform on my digestive system. But why does that matter? The dangers are immaterial. For if I am stranded in the middle of a dessert I would not want to die on an empty stomach. I would want to die full, I repeat, I would want to die full! People can cry indigestion, indigestion-but there is not indigestion. You will already be dead! The pains of starvation will have killed you before you are forced to feel the pains of a sand filled esophagus! Why would you not eat sand? What is it that you would wish, other then the feeling of fullness? Is indigestion so abhorrent that it must be avoided at the cost of forced anorexia? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what others may take; but as for me, give me sand before my death!