Salmonella Outbreak Traced to Irrigation System, Pepper at Mexican Farm

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[am452]

The more accurate question would be, did your mother teach you how to prepare vegetables?

Are you saying that all you need to do is wash off the veggies and everything will by hunky dory?

Per the US spinach contmination. (I would presume Human feces watered mehico veggis are the same)

Even if you wash the spinach, you still could be at risk. Sober warnings for salad lovers came from federal health officials Friday as they focused on a possible source of a multistate E. coli outbreak that killed one person and sickened nearly 100 more. Twenty-nine people have been hospitalized, 14 of them with kidney failure.

[1rudeboy]

That's the point: if you think the contamination is from human feces (people pooping in the pasture), then properly-preparing the produce should do the trick. If the problem is groundwater contamination, then washing the produce won't work, but also blows the "pooping" theory out of the water.

[am452]

That's the point: if you think the contamination is from human feces (people pooping in the pasture), then properly-preparing the produce should do the trick. If the problem is groundwater contamination, then washing the produce won't work, but also blows the "pooping" theory out of the water.

It's not pooping in the fields rude. It's the farmers trucking in liquified human waste and spraying on the growing crops as a fertilizer. It cannot be washed off-it's inside the crops.

Several local farmers have used TREATED liquified human waste to fertilize their depleted fields. However, they cannot use those fields for any prupose for so many years. That means no cattle grazing, no hay producing and definetly no crops. And trust me the local county agriculture dept keeps a strict eye on him.

I doubt if the mehico human waste goes through the strict treating procedure as in the uS.

[am452]

Several local farmers have used TREATED liquified human waste to fertilize their depleted fields.

I'm refering to the county where I live not mehico.

[am452]

If you saw how human waste makes stuff grow you would know why the mehico’s use it. Stuff is super potent-it would turn the gobi desert into a rain forest. Not actually but you get my point.

Plus it’s free.