I am wary of a judgements that can't discern between what is apparently clean and what is apparently dirty:
When people believe that it is cleaner to excrete every imaginable toxin, pathogen and chemical into the water supply via flush toilets (then drink and bath in what can only be partially removed) think an outhouse is a laughable option to a basic human problem.
Sparkling porcelain is only a problem deferred.
When people believe that the best care for delivering a baby is found in a hospital amongst stainless steel and staph germs they are abhorred by a woman baking her birthing sheets and baby clothes in the oven before birthing at home with intelligent oversight of a midwife.
The sparkling hospital may send you home with a bundle of trouble not just a bundle of joy.
But the Yuk factor keeps us from thinking very deeply about such things.
Home butchering is a dirty work but so is commercial butchering. In both instances animals loose their life. If a person is considerate of the animal(I grant you, this is a delicate part) and clean--which is better? For the animal, I assure you it is better.
I submit, much of the yuk factor is to do with conditioning. I am NOT condemning modern plumbing,hospitals and their role in obstetrics nor the need for large scale meat factories.
However,if just because a person who takes care of their own bathroom, birthing and butchering and are obviously involved to a high degree in Yuk Factors, this does not make them any dirtier ultimately than the person who doesn't.
I'm just saying that intelligent people choose to live both ways.
We need to be careful to pick the yuk out of our own eye before picking the "Yuk" out of our brother's.
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Sorry---it took so long to write this the thread probably went in another direction.. I'll catch up