The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.
An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old Missouri woman who fell ill after attending a funeral lunch. One person died.
But chances are you haven’t heard about it.
The Food and Drug Administration indicated in February that it had closed the investigation without publicly detailing what had happened — or which companies were responsible for growing and processing the contaminated lettuce.
Government agencies literally doing nothing resembling their description for the people. I grew up in the cold war, and these were among the sorts of stories we heard about the Soviet Union.
We are nothing more than another natural resource to these people,and as long as enough of the herd is healthy, that’s good enough for them.
This is exactly it. We are running more and more like what we complained the soviets did in the 80’s.
Indiana, Missouri
Ah, so people from the Nazi states are dying? good
That 9 year old was clearly a hardcore Nazi.
Don’t let them get old enough to help ruin shit, idgaf
Disgusting. I’d rather pay extra for imports at this point if possible. I just don’t trust American products.
Or just don’t eat lettuce at all. It’s mostly water anyway.
Sounds real healthy
You’ll be fine if you replace greens with spirulina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirulina_(dietary_supplement)
Thanks professor. I knew I was wise to come onto the Internet for nutritional or medical advice.
Wow, mocking isn’t cool on Lemmy; we are trying to get away from Reddit, not become the next one, right? I have insulted no one here and am certainly no professor in the room. These guys are, though: Heavy metal contamination in vegetables and associated health risks
This article is from March 2025, so it’s not outdated by any means. Lettuce is a hyperaccumulator of heavy metals and food from the surface is increasingly becoming toxic to eat if it isn’t naturally self-protective (like avocados, mushrooms, onions).
bro get the fuck over yourself.
What exactly does that mean, though; just ignore research? I do believe that it’s worth sounding the alarm about changing our eating habits, even if it sucks.
Now I’m seeing that we may have to abandon rice altogether (which sucks because I live off the stuff): Global warming will make rice toxic due to more arsenic accumulation
It would be nice to be able to ignore new, scary research, but being prepared lets us more gradually make uncomfortable switches. Even this just dropped, so hopefully we’ll be able to figure something out here: Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds (April 17: just yesterday)
