Let’s All Just Eat Plankton
By Mitch Berg
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 a study of federal outbreak records by Scripps.
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.
No other foodstuff came close to the threats posed by vegetables and meats, the study found.
In related news: Bob from the American Lung Association and Jeanne Weigum have iron-clad proof that second-hand cabbage has killed more people than the Holocaust.
