As a follow-up to their recent article about hamburger, about which I expressed disturbance, the New York Times' Well has a list of ten foods frequently associated with illness.
Hamburger is in fact not on this list, which would be happy news for meat-eaters, except that this information comes from a group that tracks food poisoning cases associated with foods overseen by the Food and Drug Administration.
Meat is overseen by the Department of Agriculture, and presumably tracked on a different list.
Still, let's take a look at the top non-meat offenders.
A perhaps-surprising number one: Leafy Greens! We love them, especially as a vehicle for bleu cheese dressing, but they don't always love us back.
Coming in second, Eggs, followed by Tuna, Oysters and Potatoes.
Numbers six and seven are the most disturbing for me: Cheese and Ice Cream. Noooooooo! How could you turn on me like this, cheese and ice cream?! And by me, I mean 5,355 people who were sickened by you. That's just not right.
Tomatoes, Sprouts and Berries round out the top ten.
The moral is, we should probably be subsisting on sterilized flour and beans individually scrubbed with ammonia and lye. But if that sounds dull, eat other things, and try to make sure they're clean.
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