“I ate dirt, tar off of road, played with mercury from thermometer etc. as a child.”
I did all those things. My sister drank Clorox. I took egg sandwiches to school every day that sat in my locker until lunch with no refrigeration.
Coming home from the grocery store I’d eat strawberries I had just bought.
But when we lived in CA we’d drive the back roads between Simi Valley and Ventura often. It was through fields of vegetable and fruit crops being picked.
Never saw any kind of bathroom, or even a hint of a hand washing station. I started to re-think how I handled fresh food.
“My sister drank Clorox.”
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Wow! that must have really burned her throat. I knew better then to do that, but I thought that was the way ladies bleached their hair so I tried that and got a burned head.
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“It was through fields of vegetable and fruit crops being picked. Never saw any kind of bathroom, or even a hint of a hand washing station. I started to re-think how I handled fresh food.”
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Think about it though. Our ancestors never had bathrooms or washing stations in the fields. Also they used Cow Manure to fertilize crops.