• macrocephalic@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Everything has traces of faeces on it, this fixation on it seems irrational when you put it into context. The burger meat comes from a dead animal that spent it’s life wandering in a field and trampling it’s own shit. The fries come from the root of a plant grown in the dirt. The bun is made from wheat which was probably infested with mice. You yourself are a biological machine that turns food into energy and discards the waste. Your body has a tube filled with faeces right now.

    Yes, we try to keep waste separate from food, but the world is not a clean-room.

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      8 months ago

      All of those things are cleaned before being consumed. The touch screen menus are one of the last things you touch before touching and eating your food.

      The world may not be a clean room, but that doesn’t mean that I’m going to deliberately interact with someone else’s faeces, especially when I’m about to eat.

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          8 months ago

          Strangely enough, you’ve made me realise that I haven’t for a while. Not a deliberate thing, it’s just that everything I’ve bought in person recently has been with a contactless method.