I haven’t checked my AP Style Guide, but this seems to ascribe an unusual level of agency to food:
a community Thanksgiving meal they suspect killed three people
I picture the green beans tying themselves into a rope and strangling a woman, while the sharpened wishbone of the turkey stabs a man in the eye.
I’ll bet $100 it was the yams. I made myself sick as a dog two months ago eating yams I had left out too long.