48% of Chicken in Small Sample Has E. Coli

[KurtNYC]

6. Every person reading this has e coli in their bodies

E. coli normally colonizes an infant's gastrointestinal tract within 40 hours of birth, arriving with food or water or with the individuals handling the child.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escherichia_coli

This is junk science with an agenda. Rather than look at HARMFUL e coli outbreaks and their sources, this vegetarian group flipped it over and went looking for scary e coli in meat only. And of course they found it. In stores that tested negative, they retested.

The group did not identify whether the strains they found were harmful ones or not. So while they headline pimps 'e coli' the group backed away from saying that that e coli was a problem and went with the much milder idea that the presence of e coli is an indicator of the presence of fecal matter.

I suggest we look at recent harmful e coli outbreaks and their sources:

- 29 people infected with deadly strain due to raw clover sprouts
- in Europe 50 dead, 3200 inflected due to bean sprouts (other suspects foods were cucumbers, and tomatoes
- in 2006, 3 dead, 205 sick from contaminated spinach

All the same, don't eat raw chicken and wash your vegetables thoroughly. Keep raw and unwashed foods away from ready to eat foods.

"Americans are afraid of food." -Julia Child