Then more important question is , people who cannot afford to buy fork , spoon , knife should not be eating at all ? In the end it is culture which determines what is disgusting and taboo. Something disgusting and taboo in one culture and religion can be norm in another. Should I refuse to share a table at a party where a Bengali is eating rice, I hope you have seen how they eat it . What about Arab culture where the whole clan sits on floor around big deep dish and eats lamb on rice using their hands. With the same hand they break big chunk of meat and share with others.
Then the more important question is did you understand before you got on the soapbox for bhashan? try again, and dont jump the gun, shabash. let me highlight some key english words that have seemed to slip your comprehension
the question is are people eating with their hands properly, otherwise it can look rather disgusting, but then ppl **eating with a spoon or fork and knife like an oaf will look moronic **as well.
I am saying you can get a random dozen people who eat using their hands and some will eat in a civilized manner and it will look proper, and some would be upto their elbows in food with their fingers, between the fingers, palm all dripping, stuffing too large quantities of food in their mouth with food dropping as not all is transferred from hand to mouth, that is disgusting.
and just like you can eat properly by hand and eat like an ogre by hand, same goes to people using fork and knife, it can be done properly or like an oaf.