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A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it (www.nbcnews.com)

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The outbreak linked to romaine lettuce killed one person and sickened at least 88 more, including a 9-year-old boy who nearly died of kidney failure.

An E. coli outbreak linked to romaine lettuce ripped across 15 states in November, sickening dozens of people, including a 9-year-old boy in Indiana who nearly died of kidney failure and a 57-year-old Missouri woman who fell ill after attending a funeral lunch. One person died.

But chances are you haven’t heard about it.

The Food and Drug Administration indicated in February that it had closed the investigation without publicly detailing what had happened — or which companies were responsible for growing and processing the contaminated lettuce.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (3 children)

bro get the fuck over yourself.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

What exactly does that mean, though; just ignore research? I do believe that it's worth sounding the alarm about changing our eating habits, even if it sucks.

Now I'm seeing that we may have to abandon rice altogether (which sucks because I live off the stuff): Global warming will make rice toxic due to more arsenic accumulation

It would be nice to be able to ignore new, scary research, but being prepared lets us more gradually make uncomfortable switches. Even this just dropped, so hopefully we'll be able to figure something out here: Toothpaste widely contaminated with lead and other metals, US research finds (April 17: just yesterday)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Ugh, stop being so fucking helpful.
All this "sharing of informative research which could benefit the health and lives of everyone here" is pissing me off.
Who do you think you are? Some kind of caring person who isn't stooping down to our level?

Let me die of arsenic poisoning you prick.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Don't get me wrong; I merely need teammates with whom to survive the coming apocalypse!