Lettuce Recalled Over E. Coli Concerns

BREITBART/AP ^ | Oct 08 5:31 PM US/Eastern | By RACHEL KONRAD

[US Navy guy]

Less than a week after the Food and Drug Administration lifted its warning on fresh spinach grown in California's Salinas Valley, a popular brand of lettuce grown there has been recalled over concerns about E. coli contamination.

[NaughtiusMaximus]

I find that hard to believe. Even hippies aren't that stupid.

Oh yeah? You should meet my nephew. After a $200,000, 5 year stint collecting a useless liberal arts major at a "prestigious" private college in the Northwest, he's learning all about growing organic apple trees at some "learning center" in New England. (Shaking head.)

[paulat]

Cue ball means James Carvell.

...mmm...you must have meant to direct this at somebody else...I never mentioned anything like this.

BTW...it's "serpent head" not "cue ball."

[PissAndVinegar]

For those who didn't read the article, the last line was interesting:

"Epidemiologists also warned consumers this week to stay away from some bottled carrot juice after a Florida woman was paralyzed and three people in Georgia experienced respiratory failure, apparently due to botulism poisoning."

[Killborn]

You underestimate them.

[billhilly]

My fingers are entirely out of control. This time of night my flame goes out, but no, my fingers never sleep.

[Duke Phelan]

"Instead of using composted animal manure, they spray fresh human manure in large concentrations on to the crops."

"I find that hard to believe. Even hippies aren't that stupid."

Farmers can get really good deals on fresh fertilizer from local waste treatment plants. If you just spray your lettuce with some "ASAP Solution", a patented colloidal silver solution, after washing it off then it will kill 99.99% of the germs that may be left.

[randog]

I know what you mean--I've got a cousin that bought a lib-arts degree from UC Berzerkley and promptly started raising rats in her apartment (snake food for the local pet stores).

[NaughtiusMaximus]

Both of my nephew's parents are hopelessly self-deluded liberals.

Grumpy old Uncle Naughtius sits at family confabs and broods that Nephew Treebeard is going to end up living in his parents' basement and becoming a city wide expert on Startreck: The Next Generation.

[hedgetrimmer]

The outbreaks have sparked demands to create a new federal agency in charge of food safety. Sens. Charles Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton, both New York Democrats, are sponsoring legislation authored by Sen. Richard Durbin (news, bio, voting record), D-Ill., to create the unified Food Safety Agency

--Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., and other lawmakers seek a hearing on legislation that would consolidate all federal food safety agencies and establish the Food Safety Administration---

NGOs must be lobbying the government to create another unconstitutional body, so they can make a financial killing on it, like the Rand corporation and CSIS did with the department of homeland security. Bigger government, HERE WE COME!

Our food safety standards were relaxed during the Clinton Administration, they had to be lowered because having high standards is considered a barrier to trade by the "free traitors". So he signed an EO saying we had to conform our food safety rules with the Codex Alimentarius, a UN agency, which effectively lowered them. Now, the federal government is creating a crisis to the public. Thats why they issued an order banning ALL spincach. even after they identified the processor and the lots that were supposed to be contaminated.

The big government agency they are talking about now, is another nail in the coffin of individual rights, because they will be handing authority over to unelected, unconstitutional bodies to control our food supply. If you think the way you are treated if you try to bring chapstick on a plane is wrong, you're gonna love this new government.

[hedgetrimmer]

I smell a rat.

The whole west side of the Salinas valley uses recycled water for farming. Someone wants to put these guys out of business-- is it our own government, or someone else using the power of the government to do it?

Someone is trying to get rights to the recycled water project.. there was a rumor floating around that Monterey wants it because the environmentalists won't let them build a dam on the Carmel river to supply water to the peninsula.

Proposed legislation to ban the use of water reclaimed from sewage for irrigating vegetable fields is premature and could deal a serious blow to the state's agricultural industry and its water supply, according to Monterey County officials.

[texastoo]

This link goes to my forum page. It is a bad link.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Got poop on hands then into veggie washers.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Not even colloidal silver will kill germs it can not touch when the germs are in the plant tissues.

[Pete-R-Bilt]

I smell a rat.

Probably just bad beef.

MMMM E-coli burgers

http://www.kcci.com/health/10025212/detail.html

[Gaffer]

I swear, I'm gonna stop buying stuff from Callie......

[Larousse2]

Thanks for the ping:-)

Interestingly, I read the last few months that the "greatest threat to Communism is the farmer."

Hmmmm....

[1rudeboy]

riiiight

[bwteim]

Rest assured, there is an answer to our ills (:


http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061009/ap_on_re_us/lettuce_recall

The [spinach lettus beef] outbreaks have sparked demands to create a new federal agency in charge of food safety. ... Schumer and Hillary Rodham Clinton... are sponsoring legislation authored by Sen. Richard Durbin... to create the unified Food Safety Agency.

[Just another Joe]

Grumpy old Uncle Naughtius sits at family confabs and broods that Nephew Treebeard is going to end up living in his parents' basement and becoming a city wide expert on Startreck: The Next Generation.

The least he could do is become the city wide expert on the original. ;^)

[hedgetrimmer]

Right. Like the department of homeland security, it will be a sweetheart deal between the government and selected nonprofits to run it. It will deny American citizens the right to elected representation and will enrich some hand selected groups, pretty much like the environmental laws have given the Nature Conservancy a multibillion dollar portfolio of some of the choicest formerly privately own lands in the nation.

Americans need to stop this behemoth government now!