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Fortunately bacteria can be killed by a thorough cooking; fresh vegetables can be just as bad, if not worse, since staph doesn't cause food poisoning. My mother
by araneae 15y ago
Fortunately bacteria can be killed by a thorough cooking; fresh vegetables can be just as bad, if not worse, since staph doesn't cause food poisoning. My mother's on a neutropenic diet (leukemia) and she's not allowed to eat salad, but overcooked hamburger is on the menu.
- nhangen 15y agoPerhaps, but as far as I know, farmers don't feed antibiotics to vegetables. Oh, and how does staph not causing food poisoning make vegetables worse?
- evgen 15y agoFarmers do water vegetables with water that is not safe to drink, they spray diluted sewage onto vegetables as a cheap fertilizer, runoff from adjacent livestock operations flows into cropland, etc. The difference is that meat is generally cooked before consumption, which kills a lot of bacteria, while many vegetables are eaten raw. You are probably in more danger of getting food poisoning from alfalfa sprouts than you are from a t-bone. (Ok, that was a bit of a cheat. Sprouts of all varieties and leafy greens are usually the worst when it comes to veggie contamination while undercooked chicken and ground beef are the worst for meats. I am picking my examples at two extreme ends of each group to make a point, but hopefully the real point you will get from this is that there are a lot of factors that go into food poisoning risk assessment...)
- Natsu 15y ago> Perhaps, but as far as I know, farmers don't feed antibiotics to vegetables. Nope, just pesticides. Though some people avoid those, too.
- danielford 15y agoSome strains can produce staphylococcal enterotoxins that stimulate the vagus nerve, inducing vomiting and abdominal pain. The article mentions that those strains weren't found as contaminants though.