Since the e-coli scare are you eating as much lettuce and spinach as before?!
Since the e-coli scare are you eating as much lettuce and spinach as before?
There has been reports of e-coli showing up in spinach and lettuce this past season. How has this affected your eating habits? Are you still afraid to eat them?
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has effected my habits of eating those two AND the rest of the vegetable/fruit products i enjoy daily.
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it happens.. one must stay alert to reports that's all one can say.. other than the common practice of cooking foods properly and washing them thoroughly.
no ive had salads at soupplantation like every week almost lol. and i dont get sick. maybe ive gotten used to it.
I never ate any before, now I'm eating tons. I'm looking to get sick, and file a lawsuit!
No, I am supporting the people who grow the spinach because the media apparently leaves some citizens with the impression that these are higher risks foods than what they truely are. Sure, there is some danger in eating anything. But contrast this with the horrors of mad cow disease or the antibiotics and hormones being pumped into even what we consider perfectly serveable meats (and e. coli in chickens, etc).
I really like using fresh spinach in my cooking. The only reason I stopped using it this summer was because grocery stores stopped stocking it. Odds are that the spinach I would eat would not be infected, so if you are a gambling man/woman, go keep eating it!
It did at first but now I eat fresh spinach salads all the time. I don't like to live by fear.
I didn't eat much before, but I really haven't eaten much since the scare.
I still eat them
and I have always washed my fruits and veggies well
(I even wash items that have a peel/rind - if you cut a cantelope the knife goes through the outside and spreads that to the inside)
I wash my vegetables in salt water
The benefits of eating vegetables far exceeds the risk of contacting E.coli. Especially if you take care in washing your fresh produce.
You might as well, probably just about all vegetables are fertilized with animal manure....see how black farmland is sometimes? ever noticed the black "dirt" in between the celery stalks? they aren't going to change something that makes them successful.
The problem with e. coli being found in spinach was that it was contaminated by animal fecus. My main problem with the e. coli scare was that the media was hyping it up to be mainly a vegetable problem when, in fact, it was caused by animals and flooding.
Does this make me more apprehensive to eat spinach and lettuce? Not at all. I wasn't afraid to eat them before, and I remember I ate some spinach ravioli and some girl thought I was going to die. I guess that never happened.
Secretly (and I know I'll probably get bashed for this, but it's just a theory, it's not truth), I think that the media used e. coli in spinach and lettuce as a way to scare people away from eating more vegetables. But it's a lurking opinion, and has no basis in fact.
Yes. The e-coli bacteria is destroyed by heat, so if you are still queasy about eating these leafy green vegetables, you can always cook them, and they will be e-coli free.