I'm not claiming that eating with hands is more hygienic. I'm stating that it's not necessarily less hygienic than using cutlery.
Our assumptions about stuff is based on what we see, and we assume that that the stuff we don't see probably doesn't exist. We simply assume that the cutlery is clean, but that's not necessarily true.
Note that I'm not claiming that cutlery is unclean either - just that hygiene is not a good reason not to use hands. That's an easily solved problem (wash hands well). There can be better arguments for/against using hands.
Our assumptions about stuff is based on what we see, and we assume that that the stuff we don't see probably doesn't exist. We simply assume that the cutlery is clean, but that's not necessarily true.
Note that I'm not claiming that cutlery is unclean either - just that hygiene is not a good reason not to use hands. That's an easily solved problem (wash hands well). There can be better arguments for/against using hands.