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The specific thing I was talking about is this:

> I’ve not gotten sick from home cooking once.

How would you know that? Unless you’ve never been sick at all, I don’t know how you could say that.



Food poisoning is generally something you know you’ve got.


Really? It's one thing to understand that whatever pathogen you were infected with is (also) foodborne. But tracking the infection to something particular which you ate is generally quite hard, and it is even harder to track accidental contamination.

And many people do not understand where actual danger comes from. For example it is a really bad idea to rinse raw chicken meat. Yet this practice is still widespread.

https://www.cdc.gov/food-safety/communication-resources/wash...


That page and its video are bat shit stupid.


Spraying raw chicken juice around your kitchen in the name of hygiene.


The taxpayer-funded makers of the video couldn't pass a grade 5 science test.

Every argument there could be used to justify not washing your hands. Just lick them to keep the germs to yourself. Wouldn't wanna spray them around.




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