"usual suspect" > wrote in message
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> Tim Tyler wrote:
> >>>>There's a message here though. I hear a lot of people espousing
> >>>>vegetarian diets because they think it will protect them from food
> >>>>poisoning. Not true.
> >>>
> >>>It won't protect them, but generally will reduce the risk.
> >>
> >>You have no basis for concluding that, ****Har, you
> >>greasy little prick, except your bigoted semi-"vegan"
> >>religious beliefs.
> >
> > Of course it is quite accurate.
>
> Actually, it isn't.
>
> > Check the common sources of food poisoning - and their sources:
>
> Those are indeed common, but not the ONLY instances of food-borne
> illness.

No one has stated it's the ONLY instances of food-borne illness, dummy.


>Dare I remind you of the outbreak attributed to contaminated
> Odwalla Juice in 1996?

Recent and up to date facts then Tex?

>
> > Campylobacter Milk and poultry
>
> And wildlife:
> http://tinyurl.com/venp (pdf)
>
> > Salmonella Eggs, meat (especially poultry)
> > Clostridia Spores in food (especially meat)
> > Listeria Meat, dairy foods, fish, shellfish
>
> And wildlife:
> http://tinyurl.com/vd0z
>
> > The first is the most common sort of food poisioning seen by doctors.
>
> You also conveniently left out that cross-contamination can and does
> occur. Since many wild birds, who fly over crops and take dumps without
> ANY consideration for vegetarians below, carry campylobacter, one can
> become infected through contaminated produce. Wildlife also act as
> vectors for all the other named pathogens you listed (see:
> http://tinyurl.com/vd0z).
>
> Guess I will remind you of Odwalla. One child was killed and scores more
> sickened by e Coli infection from unpasteurized apple juice.

Wow! Impressive numbers tex:, especially when the estimate is that food
diseases cause approximately 76 million illnesses, 325,000 hospitalizations,
and 5,000 deaths in the United States each year.


>Odwalla's
> harvesting practices (using "ground" or fallen fruit) and machinery were
> both faulty. Pasteurization could have prevented or at least minimized
> the outbreak. Since the incident, Odwalla pasteurizes all juice.
>
> The following is a list of juice-related epidemics of food poisoning.
> http://www.foodsafetynetwork.ca/food...-outbreaks.htm
>
> Raw sprouts often are at the source of Salmonella outbreaks. Since
> sprouts are often raised away from animals, perhaps you can tell us the
> source of such cross-contamination.
>
> Finally, hepatitis A, which is at issue in the Beaver Valley outbreak,
> is spread primarily through raw fruits and vegetables, especially
> salads. Animals aren't the vectors for hep A, people are.
>