Why are People So Paranoid?

[Dawnclucks22]

I don't understand either... People will pet their dogs without thinking twice, but chickens? You mean, the animals whose offspring we eat? The one that comes out of their butts? I make sure to wash my hands after every contact with chickens or even eggs but people seem to be so touchy about the subject. Glad it's not just me...

 

[Akrnaf2]

I was outside at lunch at work and a friend of mine was asking if my chicken had laid her egg yet (we're waiting for our first). One of his friends was basically admonishing me about being careful about salmonella, that you can get it from just touching a chicken. When I explained that we wash our hands after we do anything with the girls or the coop, she was still so disapproving. Like I was exposing my children to something that would kill them if they looked crosswise at it.
I tried to explain that it wasn't as bad as all that, that you had to be careful, yes, but its not that bad so long as you are. She was like, "I've read the stories."

What stories?

Why are people so paranoid about this all of a sudden?

It usually comes from ignorance.

 

[room onthebroom]

I'm pretty fanatical about eating stuff that is real food that you can pronounce, real sugar, whole, full fat dairy, etc... & if it comes from my yard, its safe to just rub on your shirt before you eat it. Dirt doesn't phase me, animals don't phase me (chickens, turtles, lizards, dogs, pet rodents. whatever...) Its the humans that really creep me out. I know I'm talking to humans & don't mean any offence, but sometimes people can be disgusting, especially if they don't think anybodys watching them.

 

[Akrnaf2]

I'm pretty fanatical about eating stuff that is real food that you can pronounce, real sugar, whole, full fat dairy, etc... & if it comes from my yard, its safe to just rub on your shirt before you eat it. Dirt doesn't phase me, animals don't phase me (chickens, turtles, lizards, dogs, pet rodents. whatever...) Its the humans that really creep me out. I know I'm talking to humans & don't mean any offence, but sometimes people can be disgusting, especially if they don't think anybodys watching them.

Cockroach? Leech? Tick? Taenia solium?

 

[room onthebroom]

Cockroach? Leech? Tick? Taenia solium?

No! No! and No!

 

[Akrnaf2]

No! No! and No!

 

[Mraya]

I'm pretty fanatical about eating stuff that is real food that you can pronounce, real sugar, whole, full fat dairy, etc... & if it comes from my yard, its safe to just rub on your shirt before you eat it. Dirt doesn't phase me, animals don't phase me (chickens, turtles, lizards, dogs, pet rodents. whatever...) Its the humans that really creep me out. I know I'm talking to humans & don't mean any offence, but sometimes people can be disgusting, especially if they don't think anybodys watching them.

Hey have you ever worked at a fast food place. It was one of my first jobs when I was a teen don't get me started on the things I have seen the staff do. Disgusting does not even begin to tell the tail.

 

[User395221]

I truly believe kids who eat dirt are the healthiest of the crowd...

It has been suggested that "not-enough-dirt" may be related to allergies and auto-immune problems.
www.nytimes.com/2009/01/27/health/27brod.html

Kids will eat just about anything. There may be some things a specific kid doesn't like, but why make troubles by limiting them? I still remember my nephew when he was about 18 months old walking around eating a capsicum. I think like many things, kids just absorb what they see around them. If somebody keeps going "oh yuck, I don't like that" the kids will be learning that's what you do.

 

[BantyChooks]

Do you see cityslickers drive tractors to school? Happens here every year for f f a week.

See the city slicker in that sentence? "Once a year".

It doesn't happen here because the schools are way too far away---they're in town. Gotta drive there, or, if you're lucky, there might be a place where the bus comes that is within walking distance.

Oh and what we we call a block in our town takes about 30 seconds. To walk. Lol. I don't know why my phone insists on adding all the extra periods. It's not me so don't correct my punctuation miss Banty school teacher

....And that has zero bearing on the topic. Try a better argument, miss excessive periods.

Hahaha I love it. That's exactly right.

I always hear other parents say to their kids "oh you won't like this."

Well NOW they won't! Because you turned them off of it before they even tasted it!

My youngest is contrary. If I want him to slurp something down, all I have to do is tell him it's really gross. Down it goes, with lip smacks all the way....

 

[shawluvsbirds]

See the city slicker in that sentence? "Once a year".

It doesn't happen here because the schools are way too far away---they're in town. Gotta drive there, or, if you're lucky, there might be a place where the bus comes that is within walking distance.


....And that has zero bearing on the topic. Try a better argument, miss excessive periods.


My youngest is contrary. If I want him to slurp something down, all I have to do is tell him it's really gross. Down it goes, with lip smacks all the way....

Lol! Your a stubborn one you are. Periods were not a part of the argument.. . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .... . .