Just when you thought things couldn't get worse

Alright so there's this guy and he inhales a pea and it buries itself in his lung and then sprouts. So like there's not enough to worry about in this world already, now the vegetables are fighting back. My question is if the pea was cooked how did it sprout? I thought cooking killed the enzymes. Maybe it was an assassin pea in a boil proof pod sent to take out the vegetable eaters of the world. Or an alien pea that would slowly turn the people of the world into pod people. This really sucks for parents. I mean it was already hard to get the kids to eat vegetables but now they're liable to be scared to death that if they eat a pea then late one night their chest will itch and when they scratch... there will be a curly little green stalk poking out! Oh the humanity. I can hear it now- 'Mom! Help I think I swallowed a pea wrong call 911', 'Don't worry son, just drink a little Round-Up that ought to do the trick'. A pea? I've eaten bean sprouts before. What are they doing to my body? Am I slowly turning into a vegetable? There are some serious moral issues that need to be addressed before this goes further. If a person turns into a vegetable is it okay to eat them? Would they be meat or vegetable or some combination there of? Could a vegan eat a vegetable person? Would they be better steamed, fried or sauteed in a nice cream sauce? I don't believe the world is ready for this. But all bullshitting aside, well mostly anyway, if this happened to this guy isn't safe to say that it's happening to others? Look around you today as your out, look at the people beside you in line at the dmv, in the car behind you at the red light, the cashier at the adult book store and think that any one of them may be incubating a plant... in their lungs.