Salmonella

[Frets]

For those of you who have been watching the news there is a nationwide outbreak of salmonella poisoning.

Salmonella comes from one place only.. fecal matter.

Regardless of what the media tells the public. American produce have stamps on the boxes. Just by looking at the stamp on a flat of tomatoes will tell you not only where it was grown but on what day it was harvested hell it will even indicate which field.
If the product was grown in the U.S. they can and should be able to isolate it quickly.

On the other hand Mexico does not use the same barcode stamping on crates/flats and Mexico uses raw sewage water for farming.

This doesn't rule out products sold in the U.S. entirely from being a source of salmonella. When I lived in Florida, I lived near Imokalee which is practically a third world country. Farm workers sleep and do there business in the fields.
No car, No roof. Hell even the houses had dirt floors.

All I have to say is God I hope Obama gets our nation back on the right path.
30 years ago the FDA did over 50,000 inspections a year. Today less then 10,000 inspection happen a year. And there is almost no inspection of food products that are imported.

[gerbick]

Obama won't do it. Seriously, if you know that you are watering your plants with **** water, you should fix that on your own.

[Frets]

Great... tell Mexican growers I'm sure they'll be fixing that sometime soon.
Especially when they know thier crops will show up in American stores with no trace back to them. (unlike american crops which are tracked)

[blazes816]

I don't know what I would do if the government wasn't telling me what I can and can not eat.

[FlashLackey]

I don't know what I would do if the government wasn't telling me what I can and can not eat.

Apparently, it's possible to better digest just about anything if it's delivered by a well-spoken politician.

[gerbick]

Great... tell Mexican growers I'm sure they'll be fixing that sometime soon.
Especially when they know thier crops will show up in American stores with no trace back to them. (unlike american crops which are tracked)

No. I think your vote will tell them what the growers should be fixing. Last I checked... NAFTA was a voted item. You want things to happen; guess what, the president is not always the first line of where things start.

It starts in your back (and front) yards first. And why not use the current situation to bring the fact that cheap food usually that originates outside of the US is not labeled up to specs, probably got sprinkled in **** water, and above all... made people sick.

I'm not cold and callous about this; I'm a bit on the outraged side myself. But let's face it... a tomato now costing as much as they have become in the last few years, I'm more glad that I grow my own.

[cancerinform]

Wash your vegetables and you won't have Salmonella.

[silverx2]

soon as i have a house ill be growing all my own veggies.

[Googooboyy]

Or like me, don't eat vegetables. ; )

[Frets]

CIF it's not enough
http://www.infectioncontroltoday.com...egetables.html

[cancerinform]

Frets, I see.

The thing which I don't like is that now Mexicans are blamed for that while there are crazy American Organic yuppies who think sprinkling feces over their vegetables may increase the value of their foods. That is most probably the source of Salmonella: home grown in your backyard.

From Google:

What is organic food
They all want a high standard for organic food and they are all willing to make ... Most people don't know that rodent feces is allowed in their flour. ...

May 18, 2007 ... In organic farming, animal feces might be used as a fertilizer but is ... There is no federal organic food inspector, however all food is ...

[WannaBe_80z]

I love going through the grocery store and seeing all the organic foods. In the fruit isle all the "bad" fruit was all out and stored like usual and then all the organic was all wrapped in plastic wrappers and some of them even individually wrapped. Obviously organic doesn't think green. There was such a waste of materials and it all cost 2x as much. **** organic.

[TallGuyLittleCar]

agriculture got started by growing things in our own poop.

[atRax]

guano aerial topdressing fertiliser is bad?

terrorized nation is more appropriate

[gerbick]

naw, only human feces is bad... to be at the top of the food chain, we're lousy at ****ting out anything worth a damn.

[TallGuyLittleCar]

I believe it is actually u.s. citizens have become over anti-spetic and sterilized that we can't handle anything. Why we get sick drinking other people's water that they can drink just fine.

[gerbick]

No arguments there. I think all of this hand sanitizer stuff is going to create a backlash like no other.

[WannaBe_80z]

We use normal soap at home but put it in a anti bacterial soap dispenser so no "complains". People whine too much.

[koolbabs2000]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salmonella

The prevention of Salmonella as a food illness involves effective sanitizing of food contact surfaces. Alcohol has proven to be an effective topical sanitizer against Salmonella.

CHEERS !!!

[Genesis F5]

naw, only human feces is bad... to be at the top of the food chain, we're lousy at ****ting out anything worth a damn.

I don't know, maybe not...