Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: dish sterilization

[Elizabeth Stevenson (tamgoddess]

It helps to have ONE person who is in charge of buying for the CH kitchen,
who buys stuff people have agreed on. We get the same stuff all the time,
and without anti-bacterial stuff, as far as I know.

Making things "hospital clean" means creating resistant bacteria like they
have in hospitals. Bad thing.

Liz

> Slight digression (??) : I'm seeing in our CH all these anti bacterial
> soaps, anti-bacterial everything.  It doesn't seem to be the case that
> people understand that killing bacteria indiscriminately is not a good
> thing, and that it could encourage the growth of organisms which are more
> resistent, and more dangerous.
> I would also think that people who are so afraid of bacteria would stop
> eating food (meat etc.) which might have traces of antibiotic substances
> in it, but it's often the case that people think that if they "nuke" the
> dishes, and the counters (and the floors and who knows what else), they
> are "safe".
> R.

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