Originally Posted by
donna13350
Beans never killed anyone! There is a difference between a bean that has a toxin when raw, and a bean that has none when cooked! There is also some type of illness that you can get from eating too many fava beans..it's called favism..but you need to have a genetic issue with them and it's rare. We need to worry about the real dangers..like the pesticides, herbicides and antibiotics in out food...now that's scary!
Dick Francis wrote a novel in which the killer added ground up raw beans to a dinner dish. Yep, many people at the dinner became seriously ill, and some did die. yeah that's fiction, but I wondered...?