You can always ask your grocery store...
However, Arizona is missing as well and other Western states are missing (Oregon, New Mexico, and others).
Most likely source would be Mexico or Central America.
There have been 145 reported Salmonella cases in US since mid-April...
The tomatoes in question are from m-e-x-i-c-o, but we didn’t want to say so and have La Raza not like us.
So where did the bad ones come from? China? Mexico?
This has a 3rd world type of ring.
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“You can always ask your grocery store...”
Because they’re really good about not re-grinding old meat into disease-laced hamburger? *SMIRK*
I never buy fresh tomatoes unless from a local farm stand; I grow most of my own. When it’s October and there are few tomatoes to be found in the garden, I tell Husband and the kids, “Last Call For Tomatoes!” and it’s a mad dash to get the last few because they know it’ll be a YEAR before they get another fresh one.
They’ve been known to nurse a green tomato into ripening on the windowsill well into December, LOL! :)
They didn’t really need to tell me that my home grown tomatoes were safe to eat. I ate 2 of them today.
Notice they don’t say where the sources of these bad tomatoes are from, only the “good” sources.
I’d bet the list is short on the bad side, but not politically correct to print...
Some obvious missing sources are China and Mexico.
Something like illustrates how safe our food supply is if you stop and think about it.
Outbreaks like this probably happened all the time in the past, but people didn’t know it or were just immune.
In today’s ultra sterile world and rapid information flow; an outbreak this is communicated quickly and affects immune systems that are not exposed to a lot.
This outbreak will be traced back to the source, and someone (or company) will be out of business and new regulations probably put in place.
My friends have more tomatoes than they can pick...I got a dozen more today. They are delicious and home grown!
McDonald's, others pull tomatoes over salmonella By CARLA K. JOHNSON, Associated Press Writer
That news article (which is one hour old) only has:
Arkansas, California, Georgia, Hawaii, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Belgium, Canada, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Israel, Netherlands and Puerto Rico.
That was the list from this morning...
The LAXY, Politically Correct AP reporters at work...
That goes for all those other grocery store veggies... I think most of them are imported too. Good to ask your produce person where they were grown. Local is good. Support our own growers.
Funny why hasn't the media hasn't mentioned where they were grown? Hmmm?
"...California Tomato Farmers President Ed Beckman said that at this time of year almost all tomatoes sold in the United States come from either Mexico or Florida."
We are all gonna die die I tell ya !!!
Now please pass me some of those fresh tomatoes I need to put them next to my undercooked steak and eat them with my unwashed hands.
Sufferin sassafras the nation is run by the professional handwringers lately.
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I use canned diced tomatoes for all my cooking, and fresh for salads and sandwiches. Canned tomatoes are surprisingly good and flavorful.