Could veggie burgers increase your lifespan? Many experts insist that switching to a vegetarian lifestyle can greatly increase overall health, leading some to ditch their pork rinds like an old smoking habit. Still others swear by an omnivorous diet, saying that occasional New York steak never hurt anyone. Is a fresh helping of tofu just what the doctor ordered, or only a lot of empty calories?
People can lessen the threat of food borne-illnesses by adopting a vegetarian diet. Animal products are responsible for every single case of bacterial contamination—even on fruits and vegetables. Plant-based foods don’t naturally ha rbor E. coli , campylobacter, listeria, and other bacteria that live in the intestinal tracts and feces of animals. When fruits or vegetables do become contaminated, it is because animal manure was used to fertilize crops or leaked into waterways.
According to the USDA, 70 percent of food poisoning is caused by contaminated animal flesh. Meat is not thoroughly cleaned before it is packaged and shipped. Affidavits from meat inspectors offer these descriptions of tainted meat: “Company employees told us that rats were all over the coolers at night, running on top of meat and gnawing at it. … [W]e saw fecal contamination get through—up to one-foot smears—as well as flukes [liver parasites], grubs [wormlike fly larvae that burrow into the cow’s skin and work their way through the animal’s body], abscesses [encapsulated infections filled with pus], [hide] hair, and ingesta [partially digested food found in the stomach or esophagus].”
To learn more, see http://goveg.com/contamination_bacterial.asp .
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