I haven't seen much upside from going vegetarian, but at least I don't have to worry about accidentally eating food from a place like the above.
Vegetables can also be contaminated with bad bacteria and they do get contaminated in practice.
There are plenty outbreaks caused by contaminated salads and other vegetables.
But at least, when I'm slumped over porcelain, and praying for death, I don't have the horror film image of "heavy meat buildup" on the walls.
I'm not excusing the horrible sanitary practices some businesses have, and the complicity of their employees, but being vegetarian is not a recipe to become free of dangerous diseases caused by microbes.
Your horror is an artifact of the industrialization of food production not the fact of meat at a food
These insane practices aren’t happening with pastoral nomadic herders or even pasture raised farms in the US
I would rather eat a piece of meat (cooked) than a piece of lettuce that is grown in an area that is affected by this parasite.
What is the quantitative definition of "dangerous?"
Lettuce is usually eaten raw and uncooked, and it can't really be washed thoroughly. It's also a leafy green that grows directly out of the ground, so it has the greatest chance to be contaminated by ...erm... organic fertilizers, rodent poop, and other sources of bacteria.
You need to wash things at least with soap to make an impact on bacteria, but who does that?
Like cheap wine? Things haven't gotten much better from Chavez's days especially if you look at the cheaper brands like Charles Shaw. Plenty of young, dead, farm workers because safety standards are barely enforced.
Are you just worried about pathogens? Cantaloupes were the main vector in the 2011 listeria outbreak in the US and 2018 listeria outbreak in Australia, and a salmonella outbreak this year in the US. The 2008 salmonella outbreak in the US was the largest since the 80s, and that was spread by cilantro and peppers.
2009 saw a big salmonella outbreak in the US spread by peanut products. If you're worried about unsanitary factory conditions, you probably don't want to read up on that.
Big ag is gross whether it's plant or animal.