Sorry, the correct answer is
Leafy greens
Based on data from nearly 4,600 outbreaks of food illness, researchers estimated the number of cases attributable to 17 different food categories and found that produce accounted for 46% of cases. Leafy vegetables such as spinach and cabbage were responsible for the majority of the illnesses, and most were caused by norovirus, which is spread to produce from water contaminated by fecal matter. (source: CDC as reported by CNN)
So, should you swear off of eating leafy greens to be safe? No, but you should wash them carefully and, whenever possible, obtain them from a local source you know and trust. When it comes to local foods we can trust, there's nothing closer and fresher than the foods we grow ourselves. Growing greens like spinach, lettuce and kale is easy and economical.
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PS. Pigs don't eat meat, Cows don't Meat, Chickens don't eat meat, I blame the shitty factory farming organizations. They are killing us all! Shut them Down!
Pigs and chickens both eat meat...they will even eat each other if one dies.
I guess Trica would rather we just starve.
I thought shellfish...very surprised to see it is greens...In what sense please? Lettuce? kale?
Any greens.
Mostly cut and bagged salads-spring mix, spinach, etc.. the while heads of lettuc3, bunches of kale, collards, etc are usually no the the culprits. And as other have said many times wash your veggies when you get them home. A wash in the packing shed is not the same as washing everything thoroughly, spinning dry in a salad spinner and repackaging (never use the package it came it) and putting in the fridge.
Or buy local as much as possible as the food from small farms is usually cleaner than the industrial food.
BUT, the pathogens in meat cause people to DIE. The ones from veggies cause illness, but usually not death. Something to remember.
Yes Katherine, you are right. And that is the reason why there are no meat eaters on earth anymore. They are all dead. Here we are only the vegans, though sick from our veggies.
I will remember.
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Only one comment to this subject today. We the humans have caused the contamination and poisoning and infecting of many life forms on this planet. All life forms and we are destroying daily the life forms needed , to be a planet that is alive. One other thing, we have used and eliminated most natural resources on this planet, we are destroyers of our own habitat.
you people are nuts.
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Please read this article carefully -- It can be misleading if you are looking for a simple answer. We need our greens more than ever, but we need them free of "infected manure", be it from chicken, pig or cow. It's not a specific green or even a specific vegetable that could be a culprit; that was just one of the choices in the teaser of a quiz. Tomatoes are just as likely to spread disease as greens if fertilized with infected manure. Summary: It's the sick, dead animal waste large growers...
…Please read this article carefully -- It can be misleading if you are looking for a simple answer. We need our greens more than ever, but we need them free of "infected manure", be it from chicken, pig or cow. It's not a specific green or even a specific vegetable that could be a culprit; that was just one of the choices in the teaser of a quiz. Tomatoes are just as likely to spread disease as greens if fertilized with infected manure. Summary: It's the sick, dead animal waste large growers spread on the produce that needs to halt. http://www.goingveggie.com/a-month-of-veggie-love/
Or human manure--not always disposed of properly.
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Since plants do not defecate, the 'fecal matter' which produces ill-effects has presumably come from elsewhere. It's not the spinach that kills you, it's the process of prdocucing, packing, transporting, storing and merchandising it that introduces filth and dirt. Blame the processors, not the innocent vegetable - and wash it thoroughly before you use it.
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