Aug 27 2008
Deaths by meat poisoning prompts recall in Canada
Last week I wrote that veganism is growing in Canada. Now it seems Canadians have an even stronger reason to go vegan, for the sake of the animals as well as their own health. According to a report on Yahoo News , meat products from Maple Leaf Foods have been linked to a deadly bacterial outbreak that killed four people. Now, have you ever heard of killing carrots? I haven’t.
The outbreak has resulted in 21 confirmed cases of listeriosis, a kind of food poisoning that can be dangerous to the elderly, newborns, pregnant women and people with chronic medical conditions. Symptoms include fever, headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea. “Results of genetic testing from three samples of the products recalled by Maple Leaf Foods show that two tested positive for the outbreak strain of listeria,” the Public Health Agency of Canada said in a statement.
We hope that in the face of such tragedy, official health agencies will take heed and start promoting a vegetarian diet as a safer option. How many deaths does it take to convince people that eating meat, besides being unethical, can also be a health hazard?
Is it just me or, everyday, are there more and more reasons to go vegetarian?
I’ve been writing a vegetarian blog for more than a year now, and the more I learn and write about (for example, I recently wrote about New Moon Kitchen, a Toronto manufacturer putting refined sugar and synthetic vanillin in their processed food, promoting them to vegans, and not listing them on their ingredient list) the more horrified I am.
Still, knowledge is power.
Cheers.
I am doing a report on veganism and vegetarians and I believe that this would be very benificial to your health. It seems to be that eating as a vegan or vegetarian helps you restain from animal cruelity and harsh treatments of animals. Along with saving you the risk of being a possibal victom of a animal based food disease. Im only fifteen but by becoming a vegan i believe that i can help to save maby just one animal and reduce my risk for unnecessary disease. -kiley fowler-