Eat Your Spinach.....

...it's not good for you!

Don't get me wrong here. I love my spinach....Palak Paneer, Palak Chicken, and what not....but now we have a huge crisis on our hands over here. Since last week, grocery stores have been throwing out spinach leaves galore since some people have fallen sick or even have died eating the E.Coli contaminated greens.

Initially, as our silly media here in the States assumed, that it was a possible terror based attack. At least the FBI struck that rumor down very quickly (btw...whatever happened to the mysterious Anthrax cases???). But that does bring into question.....why would terrorists pick spinach to kill people? Yes, the food chain is vulnerable to a terror attack, but of all things these fanatics can pick, do you think they would pick spinach???? It is a healthy, and tasty (my opinion) green veggie, but knowing that it isn't a favorite or common staple on the general population's dinner tables, I don't think this food item would be on the top of the list to be 'infected' by terrorist means. Nowadays, it's become easy to get people's attention with the word "terrorist". So any crisis or calamity that strikes can easily be pinpointed at 'terror suspects' and voila! You have your news media attention.....and of course our truthworthy gov't is no less of a supporter in that rhetoric.....

But for right now, I guess the other person who should be scared of no spinach is Popeye the Sailorman.