are vegans really save from tainted food?

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i see a lot of vegans on here talking about how they dont want to get diseases from uncooked meat as why they want to be a vegan, and of course i have to show them that they are wrong agian

why go about life worrying, live it out the way it should be..my grandpaw was a super meater eater and he lived to be 93

Answer 1

LOL!!

Sorry Charlie: No news there...

Darling, we know we might get ecoli from cow poop which has fertilized our veggies. The recent scare with spinach is evidence enough. The poison was tracked by to the cow farm next door.

You aren't telling us anything we don't already know.

That being said: You are twice as likely to get a food borne illness from meat (three times as likely if that meat is sea food) than you are from veggies.

Did you know pork carries the flu virus? How about a tape worm? I could go on. But I don't want to gross people out.

Answer 2

Meat contains 14 times the amount of pesticides as plant foods, since pesticides get concentrated as they move up through the food chain, and since they're more easily stored in fatty tissues. In 1980, six years after the pesticide dieldrin was banned, the USDA destroyed two million packages of frozen turkey products contaminated with dieldrin. (And such contamination can routinely occur without detection.) In 1974, the FDA found dieldrin in 85% of all dairy products and 99.5% of the American people. The EPA discovered that the breast milk of vegetarian women contained far lower levels of pesticides than that of average Americans. A study reported in the New England Journal of Medicine found that "The highest levels of contamination in the breast milk of the vegetarians was lower than the lowest level of contamination…(in) non-vegetarian women… The mean vegetarian levels were only 1-2% as high as the average levels in the U.S."

Answer 3

Perhaps not, but they aren't just talking about food poisoning. There is more to it than that. In my opinion, it is best to eat organic meats as opposed to commercial meats. There is a big difference in the diet the animals are fed, (organic animals are fed organic foods that don't contain meat products) in the treatment of the animals and in the fact that commercial annimals are given hormones to fatten them and to increase milk production (in cows), and they are also given antibiotics which can (supposedly) taint the meat, and yes, antibiotics are bad for you and for animals for many reasons. In any case, people make decisions about their eating habits for many reasons, and it's quite arrogant to judge and to assume you understand why and try to prove them wrong, especially when you don't know all the facts.

PS for the majority of your grandfather's life, meat wasn't tainted nearly as much as it is today. Things have changed... for the worse.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Of course they arent. Produce can easily be tainted with ecoli and other things, salmonella etc. No one is safe. I grow all my own stuff for that reason, and even I am not exempt from tainted food. Its all in the handling, growing, washing and prep.

Answer 6

Safer, much safer, but not entirely safe.

No one is entirely safe. California spinach was a culprit just a few months ago. Just before that, it was organic carrot juice. And it's so very easy to cross contaminate foods, particularly in your own kitchen, that no one is entirely safe.

Answer 7

Who ever said that vegans WERE safe from tainted food?

Answer 8

I would say no. With the recent outbreaks of samonella on the vegetables, I am surprised you are asking that question.