RE: Understanding Your Body #1: Bacteriaphobia
If I had more time, I might have written a very similar post - thank you for writing and sharing this one! We are currently living in a society which conditions through media that it is all about "has to look nice and to smell nice" and unfortunately most run into this deception.... we are subject to irritated faces about not letting the cats into the house and the dog only into certain downstairs areas during nighttime... well, (humanised) pets are a big market for selling things noone needs just as the ones you mentioned... but the one sentance I just loved most in your post is this one: It would be more humane for her to simply drop a brick on the infant's head. you can hear me saying this.... very often lol another cheers to you from the seven mountains!
I was a bit concerned with that sentence. Almost didn't post with it because it was so graphic and brutal. But it is exactly how I feel about spraying poison near your children.
Was interesting to see while surfing the net for this article how many websites are about destroying germs and preventing body odor; on the order of something like 50:1.
I wrote a similar article for a small newspaper over 10 years ago. People simply reject the idea that we are composed of germs and single cells that are very germ-like and that exposing yourself to things that kill germs is doing yourself harm. They thought I was some sort of nutcase. (which I am, but we won't tell anyone else). It's one of my taller soap boxes that I shout from the top of. No one has much interest in this post. Maybe it's time to post a picture of a kitten.
Most humanized pets aren't that dirty. People often treat their pets better than they treat their children. They buy expensive pet food and cheap groceries and take their pets to the vet while the snot runs down their kid's face.
Both my kids have in and out dogs and cats and they're all healthy. The exposure to the extra germs probably makes their immune systems even stronger. And as long as your pets (or your kids) don't have worms, I see no problem. Thanks for your comment. Always a pleasure.
always a pleasure for me to read your posts and comments! Keeping the cats ouside here is mainly for them to chase (and kill/eat) mice at night - and with the eating of mice come the worms.... We "cure" them from worms every 2 months, but I still rather keep them outside - there is a wintergarden on the porch/terasse where they are save from rain and can cuddle up in their baskets ;-)