Spinach as a weapon of mass destruction appears to be

[Skidmore]

today's live in fear story.

They miss the point--health risks abound when you de facto deregulate the food industry.

[tridim]

1. The "terrorists" just keep on winning

And they don't even have to lift a finger.

[niyad]

2. clue me in, please? SPINACH??? what in the hell am I missing here?

[Warpy]

5. E coli outbreak in multiple states traced to bagged spinach

Spinach salads should be off the menu for now.

Proper cooking kills the bug.

[LynzM]

8. IF it's only bagged spinach...

Does that mean that getting local stuff is still ok, one would think?

[napi21]

9. I just returned from grocery shopping, and all fresh spinach was

GONE from the shelves! Bagged, fresh bunched, and loose! Believe me, if they didn't take this seriously,they'd have never pulled it!

My husband works for this particular chain, and I KNOW how frugal (cheap) they are with the $!

Right before I went shopping I heardDr. Gupta on CNN say that the bagged spinach was still on the shelves. He even had several bags to show on camera. He said one was purchased last night and the other this morning.

We live in Ga. andthe last map I saw didn't show any southern states affected by this problem YET, but when I got home, my neighbors mother stopped by and told me her grandson was now in the hospital, and they think he might have this e-coli virus. They're still testing.

I'm sure not a panicer, but somebody needs to find the source of this SOON. 20% of the US istoo high to just ignore.

[wryter2000]

3. Commie pinko

This kind of talk emboldens the bacteria!

[Champion Jack]

4. .

I yam what I yam!!!!

[nam78_two]

6. yeah and

you will never hear this kind of hoopla over mad cow or anything affiliated with powerful meat lobbies etc.
Those stories ae usually whisked under the carpet...

[tomreedtoon]

7. Who the hell eats RAW SPINACH????

Intellectual phonies, cappucino drinkers and anorexic models. Normal people eat spinach out of a can, cooked and sanitized.

I'm surprised no one here has tried to call this "germ warfare" against metrosexuals or something.

[napi21]

10. Ah, NO! Many salads are made eitherwith fresh spinach by itself or mixed

with other greens.

I also don't know for sure that cooking kills e-coli. I seem to remember whenthey were talking about it in chicken a while ago they said cooking didn't kill the virus. Not sure though. My brain is old and overloaded with too much junk!

[Kolesar]

11. Popeye was the original Pac-Man

Popeye swallowed the power capsules (spinach), that gave him extra power to score points (punch Bluto).

[niyad]

13. I am assuming that you forgot the sarcasm icon--I don't eat that slime

that comes out of a can--yeck!!!

[tomreedtoon]

14. Spinach IS slime. Either accept it or eat lettuce.

If there was a way to cook lettuce and can it, I'd eat it that way too. What did you expect when eating raw vegetables?

[knowbody0]

12. I see margin calls