What’s wrong with spinach?

Posted on October 15, 2006 by | 2 Comments

Good article by Michael Pollan in today’s NYT Magazine: The Vegetable-Industrial Complex

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2 responses to “What’s wrong with spinach?”

  1. llewelly's avatar llewelly | October 15, 2006 at 8:22 pm |

    Listen up, brothers and sisters
    Come hear my desperate tale
    I speak of our friends of nature
    Trapped in the dirt like a jail
    Vegetables live in oppression
    Served on our tables each night
    This killing of veggies is madness
    I say we take up the fight
    (Arrogant worms)
    Just a little humor to lighten up a (deservedly) serious topic.

  2. llewelly's avatar llewelly | October 15, 2006 at 8:30 pm |

    The lethal strain of E. coli known as 0157:H7, responsible for this latest outbreak of food poisoning, was unknown before 1982; it is believed to have evolved in the gut of feedlot cattle. These are animals that stand around in their manure all day long, eating a diet of grain that happens to turn a cow’s rumen into an ideal habitat for E. coli 0157:H7. (The bug can’t survive long in cattle living on grass.)

    Link added by me.
    I linked the doubtful claim to Tara’s analysis of the issue.