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Bizarre cult that 'never ate food' lost followers when leader tasted a McDonald's
McDonald's was ok too.Through the early 1980s, Brooks was a regular on US talk shows, maintaining that easting was simply an “addiction” and that meditation and special breathing techniques could enable his followers to “kick the habit”.Most shockingly, Brooks said that hunger strikers, such as the Irish Republicans who died in prison for their beliefs, only died because they wanted to.Brooks successfully charged would-be Breatharians substantial sums of money to visit a retreat in southern Utah where they would be trained in his special techniques.An advertisement published in 2020 said the total cost of the workshop would be $100,000 (about £ 75,000) with a 10% deposit. The Breatharian marketing materials stressed that the prices were not misprints.