Eat More Shit
Over at slate, Kent Sepkowitz wrote an article called ‘Eat Crap: Why Americans should ingest more excrement’ — and he means it. He lays out a funny and insightful argument about how American’s obsession with cleanliness is making us sicker. From the article:
Ever wonder why your dog can gobble, lick, and gnaw all he wants along the glorious buffet of a city street and (almost) never get sick? Your dog is used to eating shit. Americans, on the other hand, grow up eating almost no shit at all. Our food is hosed and boiled and rinsed and detoxified and frozen and salted and preserved. Recently, we have begun to irradiate it, too—just in case. As a result, when our bodies encounter the occasional inevitable bug, they’re unhappy
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