Posted on 11/20/2018 12:14:28 PM PST by caww
Romaine lettuce is unsafe to eat in any form, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Tuesday in a broad alert in response to a new outbreak of illnesses caused by a particularly dangerous type of E. coli contamination.
The CDC told consumers to throw away any romaine lettuce they may already have purchased. Restaurants should not serve it, stores should not sell it, and people should not buy it, no matter where or when the lettuce was grown. It doesn’t matter if it is chopped, whole head or part of a mix. All romaine should be avoided.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Looking at this logically, and without the lens of past ineptitude, or the fact the CDC was badly co-opted by the Usurper way back when:
If ALL Romaine is considered bad:
1. Could be there is no adequate way to trace it specifically, so it all has to go.
2. It was weaponized somehow, a vector for something dangerous.
Either way, whatever it is tainted with is bad enough that the CDC isn’t trying to cushion it for the growers, the good ones or the suspect ones.
I’ve never seen a food recall like this since the Tylenol scare. Tylenol handled that brilliantly, by the way.
Not even your own backyard?
That darn neighbor’s dog!..................
The same CDC that believes 25 year old are teenagers and that bringing Ebola victims to tun loose on America’s streets poses no threat...
Somebody doesn’t like California.
5.56mm
Bookmark.
Even organic, the cdc says. I guess only from your own garden would it be safe. Why romaine and not all the lettuces, I wonder?
I went to a rock concert with some of the most beautiful “potty trailers” I’ve ever seen, with multiple bathrooms that looked like in a house. Let’s put them in the lettuce fields so we can actually eat the food the farmworkers pick. I don’t like outhouses much either.
“I’ve never seen a food recall like this since the Tylenol scare. “
This is even more broad than the Tylenol recall. The CEDC did not recall ALL acetaminophen.
In this case they are issuing an emergency “destroy now” alert for ALL Romaine. Now.
I’ve not witnessed this before.
Maybe it's the monsanto seeds that are infected.
why not Brusells Sprouts & Okra?
Lavos los manos!
Actual CDC warning - https://www.cdc.gov/ecoli/2018/o157h7-11-18/index.html
i wonder if this is a snail parasite issue?
sometimes snails hang out in romaine lettuce
“In more recent years, after reforms in the livestock industry, the outbreaks have been most often associated with leafy greens.”
Gotta remember this excuse when people tell me I should eat more salad.
No they discovered migrants need a place to go while working and or the farmers irrigate the fields with cattle run off.
So, why did all the other lettuces dodge this bullet, not to mention other crops?
Do not eat it now.
Do not eat it then.
Do not eat it here.
Do not eat it there.
Do not eat it anywhere!
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