Poisoned Dog Dookie, Anyone?

I just read an article about disgust over at the Boston Globe. Let me sum up part of it this way: Human beings are weird. We are also SUPER-squeamish. For example, we’re disgusted by our own bodies— their odor, hair, fat, and every bodily fluid except for tears. (And pee!)

Paul Bloom, a Yale psychologist, talks about how illogical we are: 

“You wouldn’t eat arsenic [a deadly poison] and you wouldn’t eat a dog turd. But even though eating arsenic is worse for you, [you have the same response to] the dog turd.”

Dr. Bloom is right. And not only that, I wouldn't eat a poisonous dog turd either!

Barfing rower photo from REUTERS.