Californians Keep Killing People With Organic Mushrooms

In a state where hippies and organic food lovers outnumber most everyone else, Californians have a real propensity to poison each other because they pick wild mushrooms in the fields and eat them. 1,700 Californians have been poisoned in the past two years and now they have killed two elderly idiots in a nursing home.

From the AP here:

The deaths of two residents of a Northern California assisted living facility and the hospitalization of four others come despite warnings from health officials not to eat mushrooms picked in the wild.

As far back as October 2009, the California Department of Public Health issued a statement warning that eating wild mushrooms can cause serious illness or death.

According to state data, there were more than 1,700 reported cases of mushroom ingestion in California in 2009 and 2010. They included 10 cases of serious poisoning and two deaths, including an 82-year-old Santa Barbara man who died after cooking wild mushrooms with his steak and a Lodi woman who died after eating mushrooms she had picked in a local park.

In the most recent incident, Barbara Lopes, 86, and Teresa Olesniewicz, 73, died after eating soup that had been prepared by a caregiver at the Gold Age Villa in Loomis.

The caregiver “just didn’t know” the mushrooms were poisonous, Reed told the Sacramento Bee.

But at least the poisonous food was grown local and 100% organic, right? Northern Californians all think they are experts on organic menus and also think they can cook. As anyone who has tried to get buffalo wings or ribs in the region could tell you, these hippies really don’t know how to cook.