I’m sitting here reading Rolling Stone magazine and I came across this tidbit: “Fecal contamination found in 48 percent of fast-food soda machines.” Ummm… Gross! How does fecal contamination get inside a soda dispenser? Are rats climbing on top of the machines and using them as litter boxes? Are human workers doing something I don’t even want to suggest? Is the soda contaminated before it gets dumped into the machines? Seriously, how does this happen?
This tidbit did not tell me which fast food restaurants were tested. This is not of particular concern to me, since I don’t eat fast food or drink soda. If you do, you may want to hunt down this complete study to find out which restaurants were among the 52 percent that did not contain fecal matter.
I will not be able to look at someone drinking from a McDonald’s cup without my stomach doing flip flops. It would be like mixing dirty toilet water into my tea. And we wonder why we have so many health problems in this country.
