More, not Less, Excrement in Food?
Dr. Kent Sepkowitz, a physician from New York, argues that the recent E. coli outbreaks argue for more contaminated food. His thesis is this: that our food (and environment) is too clean, which means that when we do end up encountering a pathogen our crippled immune systems can’t handle it, and we get nastily sick.
I dunno if he’s correct: if there were more dirt in our food, mightn’t we just be exposed to nastier pathogens more often?
