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Things like how I need to stop sharing glasses of water with my cat cause she cleans her asshole with the same tongue she drinks water with. I know it sounds like I should have known better before and should have been grossed out already but I just kinda thought that their-mouths-are-cleaner-than-our-hands kinda thing. Isn’t that true?? Something like that…

“The discussion of poo-eating in “Modernist Cuisine” is exhaustive, convincing, and gag-inducing. According to the microbiologist Philip Tierno, “We’re basically bathed in feces as a society.” “Bathed in feces”—not words you often read in a cookbook, but apparently poo-eating accounts for about eighty per cent of all food-related illness. Also, cat litter in the kitchen? Bad news. Toxoplasma gondii, a species of protozoa present in cat litter, kills three hundred and seventy-five Americans a year, and perpetuates itself through cat feces in a freaky way: when rodents eat toxoplasmii, their brain chemistry is changed so that they develop an attraction to the smell of cats. There’s no happy ending.”

How utterly awesome. Meow!