In the pedantic tradition around here:

To be fair, I remember an E Coli outbreak in spinach that laid a lot of people out. (I probably eat as much spinach as I do any meat :| and here I like to say I’m not much of a gambler)

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Not to take away from your collective points at all. Rehashing the entire situation makes us look like a foolish species to have burned through such an advantageous technology so quickly. One can only hope we might come to yet more elegant solutions.

Well, spinach E Coli is there because we use cattle poop all over it. Nothing better than fertilising our vegetables with manure rich in antibiotics resistant E Coli.

I actually think it came from tainted water. Which is also potentially where Botulism can hit vegetables, too.(Or the bloody air)

Of course it’s all part of the same cycle

I can only imagine the aliens are judging us harshly