Bread plate

The bread plate is traditionally placed to a persons left during a meal. This seems silly to me because:

• It is further away from the knives
• A right-hander (i.e. most people) would have to reach across their main plate to pick up the bread, putting their sleeve in danger of touching their food

Does anyone know why the bread is placed to the right?

Bread

I cannot describe how much I love bread. I just ate some, it was wonderful.
I seriously think I could survive on just bread.
I don't know why I love it so much. I love it in any form.
Twice in my life I have received a loaf of bread instead of a birthday cake.
In my second year of uni, I ate roughly a loaf of bread every day.
I was once challenged to see how many slices I could fit in my mouth without swallowing. I did seven. Ok, so that's not really about my love of bread, but it was funny.
Bread is seriously awesome.