Why is it that our health, indeed our lives depends on cleanliness and careful consideration of the presence of certain bacteria in our food while our pets never wash,(they might lick themselves clean) yet eat shit and rotten meat, and happily get on with their lives hardly ever getting sick?
I don’t know about you, but all the pets I’ve ever had have lived primarily on human-made prepared pet food which is just as clean as the stuff we eat. Occasionally, the cats would supplement this diet with a sparrow or mouse, but those were all far fresher than anything in your refrigerator, and certainly weren’t rotten.
If you do regularly let your dog raid the garbage, or feed him scraps that have been sitting out for days, then he is pretty likely to get sick.
We can survive by eating trash, the homeless do it all the time. It’s all about conditioning. I know people who have eaten shit before, albeit dogshit, but they survived without getting sick.
and no, it wasn’t me. Although I did eat yellow snow when I was 6 or 7. In my defense my father said that it was lemon flavored Italian Ice.
It’s all about being exposed to the virus/bacteria and producing antibodies. When we are exposed to a certain strain of bacteria or a virus our body fights it off and then produces antibodies which help protect it against another invasion. Without going into a long winded explanation on the bodies immune response I will just cite an example to hopefully help you out. In the middle ages us humans were basically living in our own filth. How did we survive? By having a very active immune response. Now days in our world filled antibacterial this and anitbacterial that our immune systems are not exposed to as many foreign bodies as we once were. Sometimes this is actually a disadvantage because we are unable to fight off things we once were able to. So should we go back to living in our own filth? Hell NO! but its just something to think about.
Which is why there are apparent “epidemics” of bacterial infections in some places - antibacterial-resistant strains are becoming more common since the bacteria are being exposed to these chemicals and only the ones that survive (are resistant) are still around to cause us trouble. Certainly you must have heard news reposrts about doctors prescribing too many antibiotics, and as a result people are getting sicker when they are exposed to a bacteria that should not have had the chance to select for resistance. In some cases, such as for body soap, hand soap, etc, its actually better to NOT buy antibacterial soaps.