German is a bit different in that German culture does value sophistication. Zizek mentions that we traditionally build our toilets specifically so that the shit doesn’t directly into the water to be better able to inspect it. Under the post-World War II occupation we did switch to British toilets.
In the US you put fluoride in the drinking water, in German supermarkets you have pure salt, next to salt + iodine, next to salt + iodine + fluoride so that everyone can make a choice about what to consume (of course there also the additional choice of the source of sea salt with salt mine salt) .
Malpractice lawsuits do exist but they are less in number and the payouts are lower.
Interesting about the fluoride. This all makes sense—AFAIK the US is an outlier on having lots of high profile lawsuits about things.
FWIW you can buy regular non-iodized salt in US supermarkets. You need it for things like pickling and canning, since iodine causes some sort of problems (I’m not sure of the details).
German is a bit different in that German culture does value sophistication. Zizek mentions that we traditionally build our toilets specifically so that the shit doesn’t directly into the water to be better able to inspect it. Under the post-World War II occupation we did switch to British toilets.
In the US you put fluoride in the drinking water, in German supermarkets you have pure salt, next to salt + iodine, next to salt + iodine + fluoride so that everyone can make a choice about what to consume (of course there also the additional choice of the source of sea salt with salt mine salt) .
Malpractice lawsuits do exist but they are less in number and the payouts are lower.
Interesting about the fluoride. This all makes sense—AFAIK the US is an outlier on having lots of high profile lawsuits about things.
FWIW you can buy regular non-iodized salt in US supermarkets. You need it for things like pickling and canning, since iodine causes some sort of problems (I’m not sure of the details).