Current Events > Why is there always an e coli outbreak with romaine lettuce?

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Every article on google about it says it's because it's grown in dirt, touches manure from unclean machines and stuff, then is eaten raw.

Okay great.

But why is this always a romaine problem and never literally all the other vegetables/greens/lettuces that grow in the dirt that we eat raw?
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Just another way to lead people to eating shit food, thus keeping them fat and unhealthy so they get sicker and then become victim to the healthcare industrial profiteering complex
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Maybe romaine lettuce is harder to clean. Maybe it comes in contact with more manure and stuff than other vegetables. Maybe the places it's grown are areas that e coli survives easier in. Could be a lot of things.
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That's a lot of maybes that should be answered in these damn articles.
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i had romaine lettuce yesterday smh
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Vamp_Aubrey posted...

i had romaine lettuce yesterday smh

RIP
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iceberg is superior
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I can't find it now but I thought chipotle's ecoli outbreak had to do w/ onions and maybe all their raw veggies
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Vamp_Aubrey posted...

i had romaine lettuce yesterday smh

I ate it Sunday. It takes 3-5 days for symptoms. I got e coli from the last outbreak over the summer and lost like 20lbs. I'm considering never eating the stuff again.
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Roxborough4Ever posted...

iceberg is superior

Isn't iceberg like 90% water
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Conditions are the worst compared to other foods even spinach, it's everything from poor handling by workers on the farm and the processing plants to deer taking a dump on the lettuce.
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foreverzero212 posted...

Vamp_Aubrey posted...

i had romaine lettuce yesterday smh

I ate it Sunday. It takes 3-5 days for symptoms. I got e coli from the last outbreak over the summer and lost like 20lbs. I'm considering never eating the stuff again.

jesus christ

i knew i should have gotten taco bell instead

smh now im gonna be freaking out for a week
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Romaine is largely vertical and catches and holds any shit that lands on it, while iceberg is a ball with an easily-removable outer layer.
It's more an issue of geometry than it is sloppy agriculture practices.

The simple solution is to irradiate the piss out of it, possibly literally. No idea why that's somehow unthinkable or something.

I ate my damn body weight of the stuff at an all you can eat salad bar. It's prob going to kill me this time.
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Romaine is largely vertical and catches and holds any shit that lands on it, while iceberg is a ball with an easily-removable outer layer.
It's more an issue of geometry than it is sloppy agriculture practices.

The simple solution is to irradiate the piss out of it, possibly literally. No idea why that's somehow unthinkable or something.

This makes a lot of sense.
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cant speak for all lettuce, but iceberg is pretty much exclusively grown hydroponically. no poo to touch.
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i had some added to a salad at panera bread that did not otherwise have romaine

smh

my saving grace is that florida doesn't have any reported cases yet
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Iceberg lettuce sucks and has little nutrition and no flavor.

Romaine lettuce sucks because it's prone to e coli.

That's why spring mix and other various greens are a better choice for salads. Spinach ain't bad either.
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Arugula and butter lettuces are the king and his court. Romaine is the jester