Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: Cutting boards color-code

[Fred H. Olson (fholson]

"Hollie Butler" <hollie [at] meandering.org>
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I don't think people concerned about food safety is a "dysfunction". The 
reason you have been so lucky as to only be able to count on the fingers of
one hand how often you've been sick by food is because other people have sat
around hashing out this same issue long before the cohousing-L group did.

-hollie


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Trillium Hollow Cohousing
Portland, Oregon
hollie [at] meandering.org
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>From: "Rob Sandelin" <floriferous [at] email.msn.com>
>To: <hollie [at] meandering.org>, "Multiple recipients of list"
<cohousing-l [at] freedom2.mtn.org>
>Subject: RE: Cutting boards color-code
>Date: Mon, Jan 24, 2000, 11:40 PM
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> Lets see now, I have been eating food of all kinds from wooden cutting
> boards for 44 years now. I can count on the fingers of one hand, the times I
> have been throw-up/intestinally ill where I could not specifically blame a
> flu virus going around, or something I ate that I disagreed with. Its just a
> non-issue in my life at this point, so I can't imagine why it would be an
> issue for a whole group to worry about.
>
> At Sharingwood we have used wooden boards for dinners for several years now
> without any incident of community illness.  In my opinion based on my
> experiences, the fear of such is quite overstated. (Overstated group fears
> are pretty common though, its one of the 7 major group dysfunctions)
>
> Rob Sandelin
> Northwest Intentional Communities Association
> Building a better society, one neighborhood at a time