If you look at all the stuff out there about food and food borne illness, you'd never eat again! I've been trying to lay off the prepackaged frozen dinners for lunch and instead eat sliced turkey, tomatoes, lettuce and fruit. Strawberries made the most contaminated list, from pesticides, and now cold cuts and lettuce are on the list of dirtiest foods.
Frankly, I am getting tired of all these scare-people-to-death articles. Everyone is too worried about everything,and the media just makes it worse.
I rode around in a car as a kid without a seat belt (Not that I advocate not wearing a seat belt, I had a friend get thrown from a vehicle because he wasn't wearing his seat belt and get crushed to death. A seat belt would likely have saved his life. I ALWAYS wear my seat belt now and insist that everyone in my vehicle do so or my vehicle doesn't move. But I digress...)
I survived riding my bike without a helmet. (But yes, I make my kiddo wear hers, why take chances, lol)
I survived a game of tag on the playground, along with the swings and everything else. That schools are taking away swing sets on the playgrounds and not allowing kids to play tag, not allowing kids to be kids, that's just sick and wrong.
I survived unwashed fruits and veggies as a kid, (in the time of DDT even!) and under cooked meats. My father used to mix up the hamburger patties and then eat bits RAW for crying out loud.
We didn't have anti-bacterial soap. And you know what? We didn't die! Our bodies made antibodies.
But most important, we went to the doctor and we got our immunizations. And polio, measles and mumps went the way of the dinosaur. Until recently, when the scare-em-to-death reports started linking (erroneously, as it has now been proven that the studies were falsified!) immunizations to autism. Or parents got complacent. I have a co-worker who insists her kid doesn't need immunizations because when was the last time someone got the chicken pox?? And he's only around his cousins, not other people so he's not exposed to anything. Ummm. You leave the house, right? Yeah, you are super over-protective of your kid in every other way, but you can't protect him from germs...
Sigh. Stepping down from my soapbox and going to go get ready for work.
