For example:

  • When you open a fresh jar of peanut butter do you only work through one side until it is completely empty then start on the other side?

  • Or when you get those shallow tubs of hummus does it have to make it back home undisturbed? Then one of the baggers at the grocery store shoves it sideways into the bag completely ruining the symmetry.

  • pyrflie@lemm.ee
    4·
    6 months ago

    Yep, it’s to protect the hunter/butcher. Deer are known vectors for Bluetongue and Tuberculosis (unpleasant but not fatal thanks to antibiotics), but the new reason that has the CDC recommending gloves is Chronic Wasting Disease. There are no human cases currently but several studies indicate that humans may be able to contract it and given that it has no treatment or vaccine limiting exposure it probably for the best until more is known.

    As to why you haven’t seen this? Well it’s a fairly new disease and doesn’t appear to have spread to the UK or mainland Europe. I didn’t start using gloves myself until ~5 years ago.

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
      2·
      6 months ago

      Thank you. That’s greatly appreciated - and a relief to know that I haven’t really been following poor practices for a few decades. Certainly gives me some food for thought though.