起初，我认真对待这些警报。当美国食品药品监督管理局宣布多州环孢子虫疫情与来自墨西哥的某批次冰山生菜有关时，我乖乖地扔掉了我的楔形沙拉。
At first, I took the alerts seriously. When the Food and Drug Administration announced that a multistate cyclospora outbreak was linked to a certain batch of iceberg lettuce from Mexico, I dutifully tossed my wedge salad.
随后，召回范围不断扩大，最终牵涉到我厨房里的更多物品——一个知名品牌的薯片、一些切块的哈密瓜，以及一罐开心果坚果酱（一位男性Instacart购物员自信地用它替代了一袋火辣味奇多）。我的顺从开始转变为恼怒。
Then the recalls grew more sweeping, eventually implicating more items in my kitchen—a popular brand of potato chips, some diced chunks of cantaloupe, and a jar of pistachio-nut butter that a male Instacart shopper had confidently substituted for a single bag of Flamin’ Hot Cheetos. My compliance began to curdle into exasperation.
不过，我是一个有公民意识的人，也不希望自己的消化道变成冥河。
Still, I’m a civic-minded person, and I have no desire for my gastrointestinal tract to be transformed into the River Styx.
我只能叹气，扔掉这些有问题的食品，并接受晚餐将是一小把直接从袋子里倒出来、在厨房水槽上方吃的碎奶酪这一事实。
All I could do was sigh, throw out the compromised goods, and accept that dinner would be a handful of shredded cheese, eaten directly from the bag over the kitchen sink.