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Spinach Company Faces Unwelcom Scrunity
AP ^ | 9/16/2006 | Jordan Robertson

Posted on 09/16/2006 9:07:17 PM PDT by Aussiebabe

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More details on Earhbound Farm --sounds like they are the giant of the organic industry. Hopefully they will find the root cause. In the article it says:

"Earthbound sells more than 70 percent of the country's bagged organic salad and processes about 30 million salad servings each week, according to the company. Its produce can be found in nearly three-quarters of U.S. supermarkets and in all 50 states and Canada."

1 posted on 09/16/2006 9:07:18 PM PDT by Aussiebabe
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So much for the Popeye - I yam streng on speenach" jokes!

"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." -Manuel II Paleologus

2 posted on 09/16/2006 9:08:35 PM PDT by goldstategop (In Memory Of A Dearly Beloved Friend Who Lives On In My Heart Forever)
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Some of their farms.






3 posted on 09/16/2006 9:11:25 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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It's amazing that this company packs under so many brands.

And people are loyal to brands. Stop the line and change it to the next brand and begin filling again.

4 posted on 09/16/2006 9:11:26 PM PDT by joesbucks
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Try looking in your fields where your illegal workers are relieving themselves where your products grow. Try looking under their fingernails. Try taking a culture from their hands after they defecate with nowhere to wash.

Homer Simpson could figure out the problem here. It's corporate greed unwilling to pay Americans to do the job, and instead importing ignorami to save money on wages, and refusal to provide proper sanitation and supervision in their production operations.


5 posted on 09/16/2006 9:11:32 PM PDT by 308MBR (When you call islam "medieval", muslims get mad and act even more "medieval".)
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I was somewhat irked tonight. Every Saturday night I have my Salmon Gorgonzola which has Spinach. Tonight the young lady waiting my table said that the Salmon Gorgonzola was being served without spinach. What's the point of eating Salmon Gongonzola if it doesn't have spinach?? I ordered the tilefish with a creamy shrimp sauce instead. And enjoy a nice glass of pighen with it.


6 posted on 09/16/2006 9:15:05 PM PDT by Perdogg (If you stay home in November, you will elect Pelosi speaker)
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If only people knew how easy spinach was to grow.....and how after you taste your own crunchy sweet homegrown spinach you'll realize how grossbuckets grocery store spinach is. The brand grown for markets is bred for how it withstands shipping, meaning it's tough and leathery. There are many better tasting types of spinach but you'll never see them in stores because they couldn't take the abuse of being shipped.

Build a raised bed in your backyard and grow your own - it's so simple and delish -

7 posted on 09/16/2006 9:17:04 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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More details on Earhbound Farm --sounds like they are the giant of the organic industry.

Well, e.coli is organic, ain't it?

8 posted on 09/16/2006 9:19:52 PM PDT by kittycatonline.com
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Late night gardening bump...

Good job on keeping these spinach threads coming! Perhaps we need a Free Republic gardening ping list??


9 posted on 09/16/2006 9:25:54 PM PDT by dandelion
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Perhaps using some pesticides to kill off the growing bacteria in poo grown spinach would be a start ... .


10 posted on 09/16/2006 9:25:59 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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"The company began selling bags of pre-washed salads in 1986. Since then, the market for ready-to-eat bagged greens has grown to nearly $3 billion."

I truly doubt it's "prewashed" otherwise you wouldn't have this issue.
11 posted on 09/16/2006 9:27:36 PM PDT by nmh (Intelligent people recognize Intelligent Design (God) .)
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They think the E. coli this time found its way inside the spinach, so washing it isn't enough.


12 posted on 09/16/2006 9:28:51 PM PDT by NinoFan
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Huh! Was just noodling around in SJB today.

Had no idea they were based outta there.


13 posted on 09/16/2006 9:29:56 PM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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That is what happens when you hire "undocumented workers" to pick spinach and they shit all over the product...


14 posted on 09/16/2006 9:29:56 PM PDT by lndrvr1972
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Their facility is near Anzar high school and very near the San Andreas faultline. If you go the back way into SJB, you drive by it.


15 posted on 09/16/2006 9:32:03 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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Try looking in your fields where your illegal workers are relieving themselves where your products grow.

Bingo! I recall another case where Mexican-imported veggies were causing illness, but cannot remember enough about the article to find it on a search.

16 posted on 09/16/2006 9:33:38 PM PDT by ikka
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To: Lizavetta; Aussiebabe; dandelion
Grow your own with one of these...


17 posted on 09/16/2006 9:34:09 PM PDT by hedgetrimmer
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Restaurants here in Florida can't even get it from their veg suppliers because they won't take the liability, and I don't blame them.

They might as well just take spinach salad off their menus for now and just wait for customer demand to return.

18 posted on 09/16/2006 9:42:05 PM PDT by perfect stranger (Senator Ted Kennedy (D-Mass). "Getting bombed has always struck me as the better option.")
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ha ha...

you know folks are gonna ask you what that thing is you just posted a picture of!


It is called a AeroGarden
http://www.theaerogarden.com/


19 posted on 09/16/2006 9:48:50 PM PDT by stlnative
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No spinach at all at Il Fornaio today.

And, oh yeah, I will be voting in November

20 posted on 09/16/2006 9:50:17 PM PDT by norge
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