Healthy food is trying to kill us

[mfcorey1]

(CNN)I was only on my third cup of coffee and the bacon was not even crisp, much less burned, when the news came through. Salad haters of the nation unite. Green leaves are off the menu -- officially, by order of the Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service.
A produce supplier is recalling romaine lettuce that it found was contaminated by cyclospora, a pesky parasite that can cause stomach upsets, headache, fever, diarrhea and explosive bowel movements, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
It is not the first time the supposedly innocuous romaine has had it in for us. It is only a few weeks since it was discovered to be the source of a virulent strain of E. coli bacteria that put 96 people into hospitals.

These were once the sorts of things we would expect to encounter in faraway lands, with dubious hygiene and stick shifts.
Now, there can be only one conclusion. Ignore what the dieticians and nutritionists tell us. They can join the other so-called experts debunked by our new populist overlords. The truth is that healthy food is trying to kill us.
In fact, the experts knew. In a 2015 study, the CDC found that about half of food poisoning cases came from fresh produce, compared with only about 20% from traditional bad guys dairy and eggs.
This is nothing new for those of us who have spent time living in the developing world. The two golden rules were to iron your underwear and let nothing pass your lips that was not piping hot. You might still consume parasites, but at least they would be dead. Salad was a definite no-no.

It was far from foolproof. All the best intentions could be undone if the roadside vendor chose to carve the hot, grilled chicken breast with his thumbnail (as happened to me during a visit to the flood-hit plains of southern Pakistan. Of course, I ate it. I was hungry.)
And there wasn't much that could be done if the server's hands were dirty.
But I like to think I did the healthy thing by subsisting almost entirely on bread, meat and bottled beverages.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/08/01/opinions/healthy-food-trying-to-kill-us-crilly/index.html

[Major Nikon]

1. The reality is that anything uncooked or undercooked has potential to make you sick

Meanwhile the risk of unpasteurized dairy products is grossly overstated thanks to the lobbying influences of big dairy.

[RobinA]

4. In Fairness

I think the unpasteurized dairy was a TB problem, which isn't quite as much of a problem in this country these days. My father, born in 1933, was raised on unpasteurized milk. He did get TB, but not from the milk, from a lab he worked in. Go figure.

[Major Nikon]

5. There were a number of problems, few of which exist today

Dairy cows were kept in or near population centers, were malnourished, kept under horrible conditions, with virtually no cleanliness standards for production, and as such were subject to a number of diseases. Raw cow's milk was fed to babies, children, the elderly, and others with compromised immune systems. Industry and government regulation was inadequate to non-existent. Pasteurization was a cheap answer to many of these problems. With proper regulation, raw milk is quite safe. It's widely available in much of Europe and sickness due to tainted milk is the same or less than in the US, despite far higher consumption rates for raw milk and dairy products created by raw milk. Meanwhile the FDA, heavily influenced by the milk lobby, refuses to regulate raw milk, which pretty much guarantees there will be more problems with it, yet still they are nearly non-existent.

[Laffy Kat]

6. Not just TB. As a child, my mother almost died from diptheria she got from drinking raw milk. nt

[Solly Mack]

2. Lettuce prey.

[Wounded Bear]

7. If you carrot all for me...

If we canteloupe, lettuce marry.

[Solly Mack]

8. Produce the ring

hehe

[wishstar]

3. Never hear of intestinal outbreaks after eating hot pizza or fries

Trying to be healthier, I ate a large salad with lots of romaine lettuce at a restaurant yesterday and so far, so good but definitely safer to order the pizza or egglant parm hot out of the oven.