Don't eat those dangerous vegetables
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Not only dangerous snakes, insects and sea life, even Aussie vegies can kill you now !!!
My kids will be pleased to hear this!
I don't know the statistics, but you're far more likely to get food poisoning eating a salad at a fast food or sit down restaurant than from meat. Veggies are grown out of cow dung soil...
Agreed...I was simply posting as a counter to the regular "meat will kill you" public service announcements.
It's amazing how safe our modern food system is in terms of injury and death arising from it.
Salads and sprouts seem to be the major issue...and if you happen to be weakened at the point of consumption can be bad mojo.
It's amazing how safe our modern food system is in terms of injury and death arising from it.
Salads and sprouts seem to be the major issue...and if you happen to be weakened at the point of consumption can be bad mojo.
Couple of things
1. Salads aren't cooked.
This is inherently dangerous, particularly in environments where fields may be fertilized with animal dung, and very particularly in environments where fields may be fertilized with human dung.
This is probably why salads don't feature in a traditional Chinese diet.
2. Vegetables (as opposed to fruit) generally have no evolutionary interest in being eaten, and will go to phytochemical extremes to avoid it.
The edible vegetables we have are a product of long artificial selection for palatability, but it seems doubtful if that selection has eliminated ALL toxins.
I'd bet there are still some lurkers with sub-clinical effects, which havn't been found, because no one has looked hard enough.
1. Salads aren't cooked.
This is inherently dangerous, particularly in environments where fields may be fertilized with animal dung, and very particularly in environments where fields may be fertilized with human dung.
This is probably why salads don't feature in a traditional Chinese diet.
2. Vegetables (as opposed to fruit) generally have no evolutionary interest in being eaten, and will go to phytochemical extremes to avoid it.
The edible vegetables we have are a product of long artificial selection for palatability, but it seems doubtful if that selection has eliminated ALL toxins.
I'd bet there are still some lurkers with sub-clinical effects, which havn't been found, because no one has looked hard enough.
I love salad, and I would NEVER eat a salad at a fast food joint...
Yeah nah - I think it's just the Aussie veggies...we don't have that stuff in NZ.
1. China and North Korea uses human dung as fertilizer.
2. Only in California where fruits and veggies can give you cancer due to Proposition 65.
2. Only in California where fruits and veggies can give you cancer due to Proposition 65.
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