It appears to be payback time for humanity, and particularly for vegetarians, as a plague of cucumber and other salad vegetable related death stalks Europe. Resisting a call to modify our national fruit and vegetable health message to: "Five-a-day, but this could be your last", the Health Protection Agency has instead limited itself to warning people to wash, peel or cook salad vegetables.
This may be nature's way of saying that veganism really is an evolutionary cul-de-sac, but it is more likely to be another by-product of the unrestrained industrialisation of agriculture.
Our cheap food is of course picked and processed by underpaid and heavily exploited farmworkers, whose conditions of service owe little to any concept of rural bliss.
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An update on this. it appears that cucumbers are not to blame at all - instead beansprouts from a North German farm have been isolated as a possible cause.
Thee jaunty vegetables are of course much in vogue with vegans and health food fanatics.
I like them stir fried with garlic and ginger.
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