>>>>All that said, I do buy plasticware, but put in the dishwasher and reuse it. ...
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>>>That doesn't so healty... Scratchs on these materials holds microbes.
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>>Without germs there can be no life! :)
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>I look at it as us and bacteria living in a form of symbiosis (all the "healthy" Yakult bacteria in the gut), and we have done for millenia.

I was surprised how many people didn't know this: if you're on antibiotics, you've killed them all. Have a yogurt to repopulate your guts with the good ones.