For anyone doubting raw due to e coli...YOU MUST READ THIS!!

[sunshinesioux]

Hi everyone. Yes Yes...still another thread that includes the S word...spinach!! But more about let's not get scared into not eating RAW!! I'm sure that i'm not the only one who considered macrobiotic or whatever "healthy SAD version" just because of e coli.

So perhaps a small percentage of people got sick from this spinach episode. Let's compare this whole raw forum going raw vs. going back to SAD thinking it's now "safer".

Staying RAW:

- maybe 4% of us risk e coli contamination

Going back to SAD, Macrobiotic...whatever...:

-at least 75% of us will then:
* age at a faster rate
* welcome obesity
* endure heart disease
* have mood swings
* be given treatment strategies that call for surgeries
* die a boring, painful, inactive senior citizen life

All this because we decided to go SAD out of fear from something so minute in comparison.

And here's a friendly reminder of the criticisms of macrobiotics from wikipedia to those still debating an "alternate health solution":

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macrobiotics#Criticisms

cliffnote version of above link: the well meant macrobiotic kushi family could not avoid an impass with cancer even though they claimed that their diet would be advantageous over the disease.

I'm still struggling to be raw and I noticed my thoughts thinking otherwise since this scare. I was guilty too, perhaps looking for an "excuse" to give in to SAD yet again. But then i cleared my head and realized how stupid!! So let's all hang in there!! I'm trying for the umpteenth time to do raw, but I won't stop trying! And I sure am not going to let this spinach crap scare me out completely. Approach leafy produce with caution for awhile..yes...but run away scared? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

Best Regards to ALL!!,
SunshineSioux

[pinkglttr]

I guess I'm the conspiracy skeptic, because to me it seems that they are more and more supporting home gardening and local farmers by putting the scare in the media. Buying from local farmers is more trustworthy.

[mongomango]

Most people won't buy from local farms or grow for themselves. They'll continue to shop exactly as they do now.

[Ginger]

Even if we all went SAD we would risk e-coli in a much greater percentage then if we stayed raw. AND many SADists I know also eat spinach salads & have the same e-coli risk we just did! Good post! :D

[dreamrawalwz]

I heard that people are now asking managers of stores to put raw spinach BACK on the shelves!

[JinxieKat]

I have no idea how I managed to miss this mess but I did. I buy organic spinach and forunately my store has not pulled the spinach or I'd have to cry, I'd miss my green smoothies.

Not only are there the facts above as to sad vrs raw, but if your cookin meat think of all the care you have to take when dealing with meat. Cooking to a certian temp, making sure you don't have cross contamination, all the oddieties of cooking with fish, making sure the food stays at a safe temp if it is left out sitting, mad cow, etc. There is just sooo much more risk with eating meat than spinach! Give me my green stuff anyday!

Jinx

[luckitri]

Great post sunshinesioux! I do have to add that my mother did help her cancer with macrobiotic eating. She still had to have it removed but the doctors were shocked that it had not grown or spread - it had actually shrunk! Then she quit macrobiotics.