Occasional guest barfblogger and handwashing advocate Michéle Samarya-Timm, now with the Somerset County Health Department in central New Jersey – represent – writes:
Usually poo is an undesirable thing. Regular readers barfblog.com know about the focus on poo avoidance – through proper farm-to-fork food handling, through sound regulatory practices, and through increased handwashing. We inform using po(o)p culture. We use humor. We use reality.
And it doesn’t get much more real than this — The International Golden Poo Awards were held in London last week.
Imagine, a red-carpet paparazzi filled evening at a majestic theatre, to view a program full of short animated films about hygiene and poo – culminating in the presentation of a coveted golden statuette. How better to increase awareness of handwashing and heap praise on those who are helping to spread the clean hands message in unique, humorous and gross ways?
Golden Poo Award nominees included:
• For your convenience
• Symphony Number Two
• A Film about Poo
• Poo in Passing
• Are you spreading poo?
• Toilet Plant
And the winner: Dancing in the Loo (above).
The winning videos can be found at thegoldenpooawrds.org.
Several of my colleagues already commented that these videos were a little too focused on fecal matter. Perhaps. But as noted in the recent UK study – the perception of gross seems to increase handwashing amongst some audiences.
