Posted on 07/21/2008 4:31:02 PM PDT by Scythian
A fresh jalapeño pepper grown in Mexico and processed in Texas has tested positive for the strain of salmonella that has sickened more than 1,200 people in recent months, food safety and health officials said today.
Wow, couldn’t see THAT one coming.
Me, too. Boy, am I surprised.
I think we all knew this...
Sorta like not reporting the name Mohammed or that a corrupt pol is a D.
It’s like the old Soviet Union where what’s not said in the press is more important than what is.
I’d provide a source but my other thread got pulled, we cannot post the AP stories. Though Drudge seems to be able too? But ya, go figure, now the press will try to make excuses for our Mexican friends who have no vaccinations, go to the bathrooms in the fields and have no hand washing facilities ....
Actually, it's the FDA reporting the possibility that Mexican jalapenos may be responsible. It's been on the news all day. Where you been?
Isn’t that the truth. Nevermind hundreds if not thousands of our fellow citizens got sick because our government played footsie with this.
Trade! The almighty god of our leaders. What do a few citizens matter when there’s a buck to be made by big contributors?
Oh, well, I’ve been around? This just ticks me off. Why do we import food from China and Mexico? Do we long to die or what?
So in your mind should we not trade with any countries for food? I’m sure that would do wonders for our economy.
Exactly, they could have banned Mexican produce, like Hello? But instead we search old ladies in airports rather than than target the usual suspects (bad analogy?)
I’m SHOCKED I tell ya.
Wild boars? The 2006 outbreak of E. coli in spinach, for example, was caused by such animals getting into the fields.
LOL, that’s what they said, ya, if you buy into that kind of thing.
this is beyond lame. you need to get a life.
You are also aware that the UK has had to import most of its food for well over one hundred years, yet they're doing just fine
Only doing the jobs that sleazy American growers won’t do.....
We used to grow a sizable crop of cold weather crops here in Michigan but they’ve all been altered to grow in the southwest closer to the cheap labor.
So..like where to we go to file damages?
When do you think the Perfumed Princes on Capitol Hill will get it? /s
Proof that poop grows more than food.
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