Posted on 11/20/2018 12:14:28 PM PST by caww
You know there’s something to be said about praying before one eats....I’ve always thought when we ask God to bless our food that includes making it safe to eat.
I’ve long suspected that salad dressings containing so many antimicrobial ingredients for use on raw greens was no accident. They may not have understood why it was better and it may have just been the flavor, but the people who liked and used that survived, lol.
No matter to me... I only eat Bulgariane lettuce...
Hey, I just bought last night a $2.99 head of romaine that I’m chucking tonight...
I’ve not been back to Whataburger since watching the burger flipper stick the spatula waaay down the backside of his pants to scratch his butt. That was about 10 years ago. About the same time, a gal at Sonic handed my order to me with black dirt under her nails. There’s more than one reason I don’t like eating out.
If you search for this in a good search engine then it comes up with may results.
“Romaine lettuce is not safe to eat, CDC warns U.S. consumers...”
Exactly. May be some GMO f**kery.
I’d prefer coleslaw anyway...good choice!
This covers all Romaine. Even the local greenhouse stuff.
All of it. Everywhere. No matter what. The only thing I can think if is that someone is not labeling it correctly
It’s rare I eat out for those reasons......far too many behind those counters we’d be surprised about. And never send your food back in a busy place...ever!
Well I like lettuce with a crunch so there’s that.
Could the contamination be deliberate? Shades of the Rajneeshee bioterror attack in Oregon in 1984? But on a larger scale?
Most likely California’s huge Imperial Valley which borders Mexico.
Treating ground beef as an industrial commodity processed by an illegal alien workforce gave us the first E.coli outbreaks of years ago. That’s largely in the past but it left me with zero faith in America’s food processing industry.
This lettuce borne E.coli is just one more example what can happen when “economic efficiency” is given more priority than food safety. I suppose your best bet is only buying lettuce that is grown by hydroponics.
Don’t know...but doubt it..there’s a lot better ways to create fear and chaos than tainted lettuce.
Maybe in your state.
Prohibited processes
The USDA NOP allows — applicable to organic and allowed non-organic materials — for organic products to use only approved methods and follow all restrictions for a material. Prohibitions include:
Use of all unallowed non-organic, non-agricultural substances (per the National List)
Use of genetic modification and/or genetic engineering
Use of ionizing radiation
Use of sewage sludge
https://tilth.org/help-center/allowed-prohibited-processes/
Produce recalls usually hurt all the growers regardless of who caused it. Consumers generally will not buy the commodity. Most stores will have pulled all of this off the shelf too. Most of the product in the supply chain will be destroyed. Nobody wants to inherit the liability.
With produce, the shelf life is extremely limited. You can not put it to the side and wait for the results.
It’s ridiculously-broad.
I defer to my prior comments.
Thank you.
WHY hasn’t the e-coli gotten onto other vegetables grown on the ground???
Old slang terms for money: lettuce, kale, dough-re-mi, greens, long green, greenbacks, etc.
Anyway, guess it’s nothing but vegetables steamed to a fare-thee-well now. Must look into Paleo diet but that’s like Atkins sort of.
Geez...just turning 70 & never had food poisoning. Nobody lives forever but eating while paranoid...not much enjoyment there. Oh, well.
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