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- mranostay, on 05/23/2009, -0/+21Wow I learned nothing from this article.
- nepidae, on 05/23/2009, -2/+7Sorry, but if you learned anything from this article you deserved to be darwinned.
- capnawesome, on 05/23/2009, -1/+5I find that 'one in four' statistic really hard to believe.
- RyeBrye, on 05/23/2009, -1/+5I only buy canned goods that are bulging on the ends. They taste heartier that way.
- me2000, on 05/23/2009, -1/+5Can you imagine asking the store manager for the inspection results? If the store looks dirty then just leave?
- Black6x, on 05/23/2009, -0/+3I didn't know you could buy bagged tossed salad.
- inactive, on 05/23/2009, -2/+5Marry good woman familiar with shopping and cooking.
- Barackalypse, on 05/23/2009, -0/+3Botulism is protein too!
- vault, on 05/23/2009, -2/+4I've been buying bagged salad mixes for years and nothing has ever happened to me. Try the Dole Asian Island Crunch, it's great with the dressing they give and a little grilled chicken thrown in.
- nepidae, on 05/23/2009, -3/+5you do realize that you can fertilize things with ***** right?
Tip3: Wash your food ... or don't, to be honest if you don't know that then I'd rather you get sick and learn.
Tip4: Irradiated products kick ass, <3 irradiated milk. - silverchrysalis, on 05/23/2009, -0/+2eat local:
http://www.localharvest.org/ - DiggRage, on 05/23/2009, -0/+2No. 1 in 4, statistically, does not mean 100% over four years. 1 in 4 per year over 4 years allows the possibility that the same group of 25% of the population got sick each of the four years, while 75% of the population did not. The other extreme would be each person got sick one year (and only one year) over four years, which would be 100% of the population. Statistically, this is unlikely also, and the most probably scenario is well between the two, with the extreme cases (25% and 100%) being very unlikely.
Secondly, the article mentions "some kind of illness linked to contaminated food". This could be anything including a minor stomach ache, a case of the runs, or full out illness requiring hospitalization.
While I find the article a little over paranoid, improper handling, storage, or preparation of food is a common source of illness. - beetroot, on 05/23/2009, -0/+2A bin, supermarkets put all their extra food in big bins outside, most of which is still fine, and definitely edible.
I'm currently cooking a beef strogonoff from entirely skipped food. - drcrank, on 05/23/2009, -1/+31 in 4 per year? Then, statistically, 100% of Americans have had food poisoning in the last 4 years. How many people reading this can say that? If there is one person who has not, then I call ***** on this statistic.
- artfiend77, on 05/23/2009, -0/+2Borat? Is that you?
- silverchrysalis, on 05/23/2009, -0/+2may i ask what a skip is?
- Barackalypse, on 05/23/2009, -0/+1It isn't just the store, it was everywhere the food ever was, the field, the truck, the processing facility, the warehouse, the storeroom at the grocery store, etc.
- LeechesOfKarma, on 05/23/2009, -1/+2Finding out you've bought spoiled food after just getting home from the grocery store is the worst.
- Barackalypse, on 05/23/2009, -2/+3One rather effective solution is to only buy foods that you can store for 3-6 months before eating and just wait while other people eat the same items and locate the contamination for you. Then the scare mongering hype driven news media and lawsuit paranoia will ensure anything even suspected of being contaminated has a recall notice issued that you will find out about.
- brandnewx, on 05/23/2009, -0/+1Search warrants were issued to the AAPPC to conduct searches in five supermarkets. Poison control investigators are startled by the fact that only 0.000001% of the milk products on shelves are contaminated. "This tragedy would have been avoided had he not chosen the most shiny bottle," said Jack Shephard, lead AAPPC investigator.
- zagatbuzz, on 05/27/2009, -0/+1Good tips, thanks for posting!
- beetroot, on 05/23/2009, -1/+2I get all of my food out of skips now, vegtables, fruit and meat. As of yet I've never gotten ill. Just use some common sense, if its brown and should be green, don't eat it ...
- jshhmr, on 05/23/2009, -2/+3You realize that the fertilizer is treated, right? Datagod is right, they pee and ***** on the crops we eat. I refuse to buy food from 3rd world countries. All the contamination that we have seen in the past few years stems from poor hygiene.
- Vanderkeif, on 05/23/2009, -0/+1Lets see, or you could not be a asthmatic, lysol spraying little pansy and just eat it. I mean *****, live in Mexico for a year and see how strong your immune system gets.
- TheSeanFace, on 05/23/2009, -0/+1Tip 1: Use common sense.
The end.
Also, if freegans can eat without getting sick and you cant, kill yourself. - RickGonja, on 05/25/2009, -0/+1Hell yeah! I have been to many third world countries and have never gotten sick from the food because my immune system gets lots of practice. To quote George Carlin "My immune system is equipped with the biological equivalent of fully automatic military assault rifles, with night vision and laser scopes. And we have recently acquired phosphorous grenades, cluster bombs and anti personnel fragmentation mine".
- skipvt, on 05/23/2009, -0/+1If you don’t know this stuff already you deserve salmonella, you dope.
- capnawesome, on 05/24/2009, -0/+1..that's not food contamination?
- Bainemo, on 05/23/2009, -0/+1Consider how many people live in slums and/or are too ***** stupid to wash their hands after they ***** in their never-cleaned toilet
- Bainemo, on 05/23/2009, -0/+1I wish I could digg you a thousand times
- silverchrysalis, on 05/24/2009, -0/+1ah, ok. i think i've heard that referred to as a 'freegan'. nifty!
- brandnewx, on 05/23/2009, -2/+2I'm deeply sorry to announce that the writer of the article passed away last week. Autopsy evidence pointed to the overdoses of melamine, lead, mercury, pesticide and cyanide. Police, whose names shall remain anonymous, have searched his house and found bottles of fresh milk and many products deemed unsafe.
- lacreme, on 05/23/2009, -4/+3I'd also avoid buying bagged produce. One time I ate bagged salad. A while later I started throwing up everywhere. I think my vomiting sounds echoed through the pipes, making it sound like a diesel Cadillac's cold start.
- datagod, on 05/23/2009, -6/+4Tip 1: Don't buy tomatoes from Guatemala, Mexico, or even Texas if they don't teach people not to poop beside the tomato plants.
Tip2: If you can buy it locally, do it, even if it costs a bit more. Garlic from China = killed with radiation, local = more expensive but still living - nepidae, on 05/23/2009, -4/+2yeah, its called washing. do you also eat finger foods right after you take a *****?
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