Vegetables As Weaponry

We're not sure if there's any backstory correlation between these two items, but the prudent citizen must be suspicious:

Man Charged After Hitting Wife in Eye with Carrot

Vegetables to Get Olympic Identity Codes

BEIJING (Reuters) - As if China didn't have its hands full keeping tabs on its 1.3 billion people, the country will now begin tracking its vegetables.

In an attempt to ensure food safety during the 2008 Olympics, Beijing is to give every cabbage, carrot and pea pod its own identity number and file, the Beijing News reported on Wednesday.

If there is a "safety incident" the vegetable's file can be immediately checked and its origins traced, the newspaper said, in a report accompanied by graphics showing personnel at computers tracking each vegetable's path from farm to plate.

Apparently the Chinese know something about the rising levels of vegetable violence that we don't know. Shouldn't our government be initiating a buffet of new homeland security initiatives so that we are as protected as the Chinese?