{"id":196,"date":"2006-12-13T04:25:44","date_gmt":"2006-12-13T10:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php\/2006\/12\/13\/lets-all-just-eat-plankton\/"},"modified":"2006-12-13T04:25:44","modified_gmt":"2006-12-13T10:25:44","slug":"lets-all-just-eat-plankton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s All Just Eat Plankton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Veggies will <a href=\"http:\/\/www.startribune.com\/484\/story\/870246.html\">kill you too<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Fresh raw vegetables like lettuce, spinach, tomatoes and green onions were responsible for the illness or deaths of nearly 19,000 people nationwide over a five-year period.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Vegetables are nearly as dangerous as under-cooked meat when it comes to transmitting deadly food illnesses like E. coli, salmonella and hepatitis, according to a study of federal outbreak records by Scripps.<\/p>\n<p>Beef, chicken, pork and their byproducts were responsible for nearly 22,600 deaths or illnesses, according to the study of 6,374 outbreaks reported from Jan. 1, 2000 through Dec. 31, 2004.<\/p>\n<p>No other foodstuff came close to the threats posed by vegetables and meats, the study found.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In related news:\u00a0 Bob from the American Lung Association and Jeanne Weigum have iron-clad proof that second-hand cabbage has killed more people than the Holocaust.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Veggies will kill you too: Fresh raw vegetables like lettuce, spinach, tomatoes and green onions were responsible for the illness or deaths of nearly 19,000 people nationwide over a five-year period. Vegetables are nearly as dangerous as under-cooked meat when it comes to transmitting deadly food illnesses like E. coli, salmonella and hepatitis, according to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}