Tea Bag and Threads or Unsafe Condom ?

Tea Bag and Threads is a potential source of Food Contamination.

Those who have worked in Textile Industry ( In most developing countries ) know well that how yarn is handled. The operator goes to the Loo , which for sure has no running water, uses his hands to clear the small thing and is back on the machine, threading the yarn which will then become your tea bag thread.

Well, one would argue, that the thread then goes for washing and bleaching cycles and hence should be clean enough.

But would you take a risk ? At a certain temperature the thread and bag will release any chemicals left out in the bleaching cycle.

Secondly, boil tea leaves and make tea and try using boiled water and using tea bags to make tea. There is a world of difference. Flavors cannot pass the Non Woven Bag. It can impart some color of tea, it can give some taste of tea to the water . But it is still not the same ,perhaps the right analogy would be like having sex with condom, however, in this case an unsafe condom.

Further, on one side, we want to be fully organic, health conscious, hygienic and on the other side, we tend to ignore the marketing traps around us.

The good old way of using tea leaves and boiling them to have a refreshing tea cup is much nicer then using a tea bag. Why did they not go and invent coffee bags ?

Left over to the marketers , they would make a Thread and Call it God`s Thread and get it blessed by the Vatican or your favorite religious guru and each of us is wearing around us, as source of Good Luck.

Say no to plastics, say no to tea bags.