Food, Sex and Salmonella. David Waltner-Toews

      

       FOOD, SEX, AND SALMONELLA

       DR. DAVID WALTNER-TOEWS

      FOOD, SEX,

      

AND

      SALMONELLA

       WHY OUR FOOD IS MAKING US SICK

      GREYSTONE BOOKS

       DOUGLAS & MCINTYRE PUBLISHING GROUP

       Vancouver/Toronto/Berkeley

      Copyright © 2008 by David Waltner-Toews

       First Greystone Books edition 2008

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      Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Waltner-Toews, David, 1948 – Food, sex and salmonella : why our food is making us sick / David Waltner-Toews.

      ISBN 978-1-55365-271-7

      I. Foodborne diseases. 2. Foodborne diseases—Prevention. I. Title.

      RA601.5.W34 2008 615.9’54 C2007-905228-2

      Editing by Nancy Flight

       Copy editing by Viola Funk

      Cover design by Peter Cocking

      Text design by Jessica Sullivan

       Printed and bound in Canada by Friesens

      Printed on acid-free paper that is forest friendly (100% post-consumer recycled paper) and has been processed chlorine free.

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      We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the British Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia through the Book Publishing Tax Credit, and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for our publishing activities.

       This book is dedicated to my partners in foodborne disease crime over the past couple of decades, especially Scott McEwen, Linda Harris, Andria Jones, Dominique Charron, and Sandy Lefebvre.

      Nothing is so much to be shunned as sex relations.

      All diseases of Christians are to be ascribed to demons.

       Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.

      ST. AUGUSTINE (from various writings)

      CONTENTS

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the First Edition

FRENCH KISSING ON THE FIRST DATE

1 FOOD, SEX, AND SALMONELLA

What’s the Problem?

2 THE VOICE OF THE UNSEEN GUEST

How People Get Sick

WHEN SHE STAYS FOR BREAKFAST

3 SALMONELLA READING IN TURKEY

Foodborne Infections, Focusing on Salmonella

4 COWS, CATS, AND PURE COUNTRY WATER

E. coli and Other Waterborne Bacterial Infections

       5 THE YOUNG AND THE RETCHING

       Foodborne Bacterial Intoxications (Except Botulism)

       6 GRANDMA’S REVENGE

       Botulism

       7 IT MAY BE WORMS TO YOU

       (But It’s My Bread and Butter)

       Parasites

       8 ZOMBIES FROM THE DEEP

       Seafood Toxins

       WHEN SHE MOVES IN

       9 ARE WE SAFE YET?

       Transforming Danger into Risk

       10 ONE PERSON’S CURE, ANOTHER PERSON’S COFFIN

       Antibacterials, Pesticides, and Preservatives

       11 DANCING CAT MEETS CADMIUM CARROT

       Heavy Metals

       12 BREADWICHES, PEANUT LIVERS, AND CANCER-FREE AIRLINE SNACKS

       Mycotoxins

       13 THERE IS A CRACK IN EVERY THING

       Radioactive Contaminants

       SPICING UP THE LONG-TERM COMMITMENT

       14 RISKS, RIGHTS, AND RIGHTEOUS EATING

       Revisiting Risk

       15 MONTEZUMA RULES THE WORLD

       Deal with It

       Further Reading

       Acknowledgments

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION

      THIS BOOK IS ABOUT LOVE,

       EATING, AND GETTING SICK.

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