A Response

To Drew--

It is a sad day when a man so enlightened as you gives in to the blinders that society places on us. Let's think for a bit. When you pass one of those areas with yellow caution tape around it, what is actually keeping you from walking there? Nothing but 2 millimeters of plastic and SOCIAL CONSTRUCTIONS. The taboo of eating food from found places such as the trash or the ground is yet another example of flimsy social constructions running our lives. The only reason we don't eat the food that Drew describes is because we assume things that have been packaged are better. I might say that you have NO idea whether some employee somewhere has jacked off into your food product or wiped your beef patty with his own shit, whereas when you find something somewhere you can usually see for yourself what might be wrong with it. If the food looks clean then it is just as clean as other food from your shrink wrap in the fridge. If it is dirty then you know what sort of dirty it is by looking, you don't have to rely on reassuring yourself based on vague codes that are only there to re-assure you, sort of like police forces, that you are safe. You are no worse off eating things you find.