[US Navy guy]

O BOY! here we go again.

[steveo]

Dumping on Cali again. (In the fields that is)

[1rudeboy]

Yup. Queue the "it's the fault of the illegals" comments.

[duckman]

It has to be their irrigation system spraying the lettuce. The irrigation pumps are probably pumping septic on to the crops.

[umgud]

Lettuce all pray over our food.

[Killborn]

Stossel pointed out thst most of the orgo freaks don't know a thing about agriculture. Instead of using composted animal manure, they spray fresh human manure in large concentrations on to the crops.

Stupid hippies.

[oceanview]

wow, the "Foxy" brand is very popular.

[kinoxi]

The mystery man S*** on my food again. f***ing great!

[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."

[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.

[hedgetrimmer]

FYI

Codex Alimentarius Commission acts as the world's food standards setting body by creating standards and guidelines to govern international trade through ratifications of standards and guidelines ("texts"). Trade disputes between nations are settled by the World Trade Organization (WTO) which can impose substantial trade sanctions on non compliant countries unless they have protected their rights to enforce their own health standards domestically and through international trade by using the "Codex 2 Step" (http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/resources/books.shtml).

Although Codex texts are voluntary and advisory (ftp://ftp.fao.org/codex/Alinorm06/al29_41e.pdf),(paragraph 24, p. 4) lack of compliance with Codex texts can result in punishing WTO sanctions.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/10/prweb444957.htm