What's wrong with spinach?

Good article by Michael Pollan in today's NYT Magazine: The Vegetable-Industrial Complex

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Listen up, brothers and sisters
Come hear my desperate tale
I speak of our friends of nature
Trapped in the dirt like a jail

Vegetables live in oppression
Served on our tables each night
This killing of veggies is madness
I say we take up the fight

(Arrogant worms)

Just a little humor to lighten up a (deservedly) serious topic.

The lethal strain of E. coli known as 0157:H7, responsible for this latest outbreak of food poisoning, was unknown before 1982; it is believed to have evolved in the gut of feedlot cattle. These are animals that stand around in their manure all day long, eating a diet of grain that happens to turn a cow's rumen into an ideal habitat for E. coli 0157:H7. (The bug can't survive long in cattle living on grass.)

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I linked the doubtful claim to Tara's analysis of the issue.