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Vegetables bad: "After days of confusion, German authorities finally concluded on Friday that an E. coli infection, which has claimed at least 29 lives, unsettled the nation and thrown European agriculture into disarray, had been caused by contaminated bean sprouts and not, as first was feared, by other produce. But, at a news conference here, Reinhard Burger, the head of the Robert Koch Institute — the country’s disease control agency — said the outbreak was 'not yet over' because 'there will be new cases coming up.'"
As with so many things, the answer is to grow your own.
No wonder it was hitting women harder. There is no way to turn bean sprouts into a sausage or a fried food.
As if that's a bad thing? Do you know how much weight you can lose with e coli? Better than crack.
I like Reinhard Burger's comment, if read as an evil-Bond-villain promise. "Zere vill be more cases komink up, jo haff my verd on zat."
But Mark Bittman told me it wasn't the fault of the vegetable, it's the fault of meat, or something!
Doesn't anyone know to wash raw vegetables? Hello?