I think the thing with tomatoes is that people might expect that they are acidic enough but that is not necessarily true. (I have already rabbit holed on the botulism stuff to the point I was sending my bestie botulism facts (from the 70s-late 90s, botulism antitoxin was produced in a single horse) and she was like, why are you researching botulism at 2am?)
There's an element of, how are you setting your risk perception in all of this. If you think a thing is more risky than it is, then you are perhaps anxious when you don't need to be, 'living in fear', unnecessarily locking your door, carrying a gun around in public, checking the back seat of your car every time, wearing a mask at home alone, avoiding all home canned foods forever.... But if you think everything is fine and it's NOT, then that's an even bigger problem, because now you're robbed or murdered or have botulism or whatever. And people are really bad, as it turns out, at this grey area of 'this thing has a one in a hundred chance of happening' or one in a million. We want safe/not safe. Bad neighborhood, good neighborhood. Could win the lottery/will never get hit by lightning.
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Date: 2023-01-12 04:10 am (UTC)There's an element of, how are you setting your risk perception in all of this. If you think a thing is more risky than it is, then you are perhaps anxious when you don't need to be, 'living in fear', unnecessarily locking your door, carrying a gun around in public, checking the back seat of your car every time, wearing a mask at home alone, avoiding all home canned foods forever.... But if you think everything is fine and it's NOT, then that's an even bigger problem, because now you're robbed or murdered or have botulism or whatever. And people are really bad, as it turns out, at this grey area of 'this thing has a one in a hundred chance of happening' or one in a million. We want safe/not safe. Bad neighborhood, good neighborhood. Could win the lottery/will never get hit by lightning.