Comments on: Why We’ve Got Salmonella In Our Tomatoes

By: Lane

Lane — Tue, 17 Mar 2009 06:08:35 +0000

Hi Ingrid,
It is amazing what we are doing to ourselves, all in the name of profit (and ignorance).

By: Ingrid @ the Grandma's Cooking Blog

Ingrid @ the Grandma's Cooking Blog — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:30:32 +0000

Wow…It’s amazing how we, as humans, are killing ourselves off…

Unbelievable the things we are finding in our food and the reasons why…

Can be downright scary!

Ingrid

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Tomatoes, Salmonella, and Water Pollution — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:58:43 +0000

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By: Bea Elliott

Bea Elliott — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 11:32:52 +0000

In general I have a great dis-trust of the FDA and the news it does (or doesn’t) let the media report.

Obviously flood waters are filled with icky stuff on it’s own….. add volumes of animal waste and it’s a real mess. The Veterinary Disaster Preparedness and Response Animal Care and Handling TAB F SECTION 5
DISASTER PREPAREDNESS FOR LARGE HOOFSTOCK: Health Risks for Large Hoofstock
“Unsanitary conditions may develop. Enteropathogens, especially Salmonella, can be a problem.”
http://www.avma.org/disaster/responseguide/responseguide_toc.asp

I also wonder – (suspiciously) – that perhaps it is in the meat….. and the industry just can’t take another negative hit? There has been some e-coli illnesses prompting a recent ground-beef recall: http://news.google.com/news?hl=en&rls=com.microsoft:en-us:IE-Address&rlz=1I7GGIH&pwst=1&revid=1684643671&resnum=0&ie=UTF-8&resnum=11&ncl=1224101580

Aren’t the symptoms of e-coli and salmonella similar? And if so….. is it possible for such a switcheroo cover-up to occur?

By: Lane

Lane — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 07:25:28 +0000

Hi Elaine,
That is almost unbelievable. The fact that the state department of natural resources is allowing the cafo’s to spray waste onto the fields to help preserve the waste lagoons is frightening. I understand the need to preserve the integrity of the lagoons (it would be far worse for them to collapse). But this doesn’t seem like the best answer either. Thanks for pointing out the story.

By: Elaine Vigneault

Elaine Vigneault — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 18:12:46 +0000

This is all just getting worse and worse. Take a look at what’s happening to pig farm waste lagoons during the floods:
http://www.kansascity.com/105/story/682889-p2.html
http://www.vegan.com/blog/2008/06/28/midwest-pig-lagoons-overflowing/

By: Lane

Lane — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 05:48:15 +0000

Hi Teri,
It may never end. A large part of the problem is we often act in an unthinking manner. We’re all about free trade, sometimes forgetting that the corporations are motivated by the bottom line, not the best interests of the world…

By: Teri

Teri — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 21:27:55 +0000

This is why the FDA will not release the information of where the tainted tomatos are coming from, we learn later that they are grown in Florida and Mexico. Polluted water, polluted land, where does it end?

By: Lane

Lane — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 06:30:23 +0000

Hi Kim,
Yes, we are so careless. I just read something about how much waste were creating by upgrading our computers ever few years…