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Animals are fine, and so are people who grow up drinking that. It probably strengthens certain parts of the immune system. The main reason we need to purify it
by wouldbecouldbe 3y ago
Animals are fine, and so are people who grow up drinking that. It probably strengthens certain parts of the immune system.
The main reason we need to purify it is because of the stuff humans put in it.
- wruza 3y agoHow do you know that animals are fine?
- Workaccount2 3y agoBecause you only see the ones who are doing fine.
- marcosdumay 3y agoThis. Animals in nature are incredibly healthy. You won't see any with even a deep cut.
- saghm 3y agoIsn't that because the ones who aren't healthy die? That sounds like saying we shouldn't bother having modern medicine because it causes us to have a lot more sick people. The problem is we wouldn't have a lot more healthy people that way; we'd have a lot more dead people.
- marcosdumay 3y agoThat's exactly what the comment I was replying to said. An alternative explanation is that nature is some peaceful place where no animal ever gets hurt, for any reason... What would be a purely comedic exercise if people weren't believing this one all over the thread.
- wruza 3y agoIt is. This subthread is clearly ironic.
- wouldbecouldbe 3y agoAll my cats, dogs, horses & chickens have all been drinking rain & groundwater. They've never died of any infectious disease, nor needed treatment.
- ianburrell 3y agoHave they ever had the runs? Giardia can be fatal to puppies and sick dogs. The danger isn't rainwater. It is stagnant water and running water that has been contaminated. Both are more of a problem in rural and wilderness where there are animals that have been contaminated.
- daddylongstroke 3y agoHmmm, most of my friends' animals (pets) kept at home, medicated, fed "pet food" and "clean" water, tend to be significantly sicker than my outside-kept animals, and always seem to have a short lifespan. They have certainly had the runs more often than my outside-only-"kept" animals. My cats literally drink stagnant water every single day, algae, bacteria, various protozoa and all. The safety'ism in HN is out of control.
- pixl97 3y ago"If you ignore the worms it's all good!"
- daddylongstroke 3y agoAnd you should, as they're largely beneficial.
- daddylongstroke 3y ago? Because we raise them, live with them, watch them live a long and healthy life?
- iteria 3y agoYou're forgetting the people who absolutely were not fine. If those people die in childhood often enough, that eventually gets removed from or significantly reduced in the gene pool, but people have to die first. It's like asthma. Those kids used to just die. Now we have inhalers, so it appears like asthma is on the rise when it's more that less people die from it. It looks like adults who grow up drinking that water are fine, but you're ignoring the toddlers who died from drinking that water.
- troupo 3y agoThere's even a whole Wikipedia page on waterborne diseases: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterborne_disease https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterborne_disease
- pixl97 3y agoI have to respond here with "WTF are you talking about". You are engaging in the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naturalistic_fallacy without use of your critical thinking facilities. Any water source that has rotting plant material, or is exposed to the feces of animals puts you at high risk of serious illness. Some water sources will have natural bacterial contamination and/or mineral contamination (think arsenic). Absolutely huge portions of the human population died to water quality issues before the 20th century.
- Freebytes 3y agoHe is also saying that animals are fine. Animals are not fine. Many animals that consume water out of the river only live for five years or so. Diseases still get them.
- wouldbecouldbe 3y agoWhat are you talking about, almost all animals in wild live longer dan in captivity in Western Zoos. That's def. due to stress, but it means purified human water isn't a bigger factor then stress & movement. Animals and humans aren't stupid, we have an idea what water is safer then others.
- wruza 3y agoYou can remove the captivity factor by looking at feral vs. domestic animal lifespans of the same species. Personally I have no idea what water is safer unless it smells, but maybe that’s my genes.
- wouldbecouldbe 3y agoMost dogs & cats, even cattle, drink rainwater all the time.
- daddylongstroke 3y ago