Anyone else feel they should avoid salad?

[orljustin]

Why don't you become a breatharian? Then you'll never have to worry again...

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

Seriously, food contamination is low on my list of life risks, especially when I've already been warned about a specific item.

 

[StanH]

It is probably safer now than it has been since the last e-coli outbreak..(grapes from Chile??)...You can bet that reputable restaurants are taking great care in washing the fresh foods they are handling...I say eat away

 

[TommyTutone]

When I was in Ukraine to adopt our son, we had read over and over 'don't eat the lettuce!' as it was likely grown in contaminated soil near Chernobyl. During our first few nights in Kryvi Rig (a town about six hours south of Kyiv by train), our host made us a wonderful dinner (well, she made us wonderful meals three times a day every day) that had chicken along with bread and salad. When we spoke up, both she and our translator had never heard of any such thing and were shocked by it. We went ahead and ate and are still doing well two years later.

I figure more people are going to die by getting crushed by vending machines than by fresh veggies. I will take precautions, but am not going to live in fear by it.