spinach chain letter stupidity kills

[substitute]

I got a chain letter which I will not reproduce here about how the spinach is just fine and it's a big conspiracy and no one is really getting sick from the spinach and it's the evil spinach-hating anti-raw-food forces spreading the lies about the virtuous spinach because "they" don't want you to eat nice raw healthy spinach and live forever

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[handstil]

what? spinach bad? I hadn't heard this yet!
I wash even triple washed bagged lettuce so I'll probably live?
As a bonafide food paranoid, the idea that I didn't hear about this alarms me.

[bethesaurusrex]

Snopes picked it up and summarized it pretty well. I wish they'd picked up this OMG CONSPIRACY SPINACH IS ALL SAFE chainmail. That is ridiculous and completely crazy.

[brianenigma]

Yep, spinach is bad right now. At least bagged spinach is. The spinach we get comes from organic local growers, although our Organics2You shipments haven't contained spinach in months--maybe because of the spinach scare, or is it out of season? We get lots of kale, though.

What really gets me is the NPR Morning Edition blurb on this last week. It effectively said not to eat spinach until you hear further from them. I have a feeling that the bad spinach is going to slowly disappear, but fast enough that nobody will be able to trace its origins, meaning there's no real news story in which to say "hey, everybody! Spinach is good again!" So people will be holding off on the spinach indefinitely.

[substitute]

Right, and everyone fails to see the real point, which is that bagged produce and other similar products are great disease vectors. It's not the spinach, stupid, it's the POO.

[screed]

So wait, anal play is still safe, right?

Right?

[substitute]

Sure! Just not at the produce bagging plant!