paulvallandigham
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Ain't that the truth. We walk around on,and plant our food in, and hunt on worm "poop", but mature adults go all kinds of nuts when it comes to handling or cleaning up feces, of any kind. Soap and water has been doing the job for a lot of years.
Modern sanitation, altho having its beginnings during the mid-19th century with the work of field hospital nurses and the Red cross, is really a post WWII concept, when we finally had the first antibiotics, and our understanding of the relationship between bacteria and disease became well accepted. Before that, mankind lived a much less Hygienic life, and our race did not perish because of it.
In most of the world, sanitation is still not all that good. If you are ever in a true survival situation, about the last thing you will be worried about is what something tastes like. And, eating a bit of dirt-- whatever the source-- is just a part of living.
Modern sanitation, altho having its beginnings during the mid-19th century with the work of field hospital nurses and the Red cross, is really a post WWII concept, when we finally had the first antibiotics, and our understanding of the relationship between bacteria and disease became well accepted. Before that, mankind lived a much less Hygienic life, and our race did not perish because of it.
In most of the world, sanitation is still not all that good. If you are ever in a true survival situation, about the last thing you will be worried about is what something tastes like. And, eating a bit of dirt-- whatever the source-- is just a part of living.
