First spinach, then beef, and now lettuce... wtf?

[Subdivisions]

This is getting riduculous. CNN just reported that there is a possible lettuce e-coli outbreak and "Foxy" lettuce is being recalled.

[Rex]

1. Bush/Cheney de-regulated the FDA

I'm surprised they even put Nutrition facts on products, I don't think they have to anymore or they can lie now. Oh yes, we are in trouble. They are doing what Reagan couldn't do.

[liberalmuse]

2. I heard it was carrots on Friday...

I wonder if the FDA is doing it's job?

[xchrom]

3. i have avoided salad since the spinach thingy --

and damn it -- i wanna eat a salad again!

enough already!

[Viva_La_Revolution]

4. make your own, just wash it well.

buy local if you can. It's all we can do.

[xchrom]

8. this e-coli was inside the plant as well as outside.

you could cook it good -- but not wash it off.

or as you say -- buy it local - not from any major grower or packager.

[Subdivisions]

9. You're right. The warnings for spinach specifically mention

that washing it is not an option and I don't think cooking it was either. They were saying to completely dispose of it.

[xchrom]

13. sigh -- yes -- you'e right you couldn't cook it either.

[pitohui]

10. you can't wash off e. coli

that's a silly and dangerous suggestion

there are countries where no sane person eats raw vegetables, i suppose we have become one of them, we can't import mexican standards for growing and handling food and then be surprised that we end up with food that is of mexican quality

you don't eat raw lettuce in mexico without soaking it for 20 minutes in chlorine first

and now it's come to california

[Viva_La_Revolution]

24. I was unaware. I guess it's safer for us that we just can't afford fresh

vegetables anyway.

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

5. kick

[Deja Q]

6. 'Foxy' brand - sold at walmarts and sams clubs nationwide!

[htuttle]

7. Well, what do you expect when WE not only crap into the pool...

...but get our livestock to do so -- en masse -- as well?

You would not believe how much crap this civilization generates. Megatons of it. If we're ever going to wean ourselves off oil, btw, we ought to be looking at crap. It seems like an infinitely renewable resource.

[ruiner4u]

11. Guess then crap-mobile would have a totally new meaning.. n/t

[randr]

12. Shit hits fan in Washington

Nations food sources in danger!
Run for yer lives!

[boston bean]

14. maybe someone's peeing in the water that washes the veggies.

I don't know, but the thought crossed my mind.

[elehhhhna]

18. the lettuce is processed and cut in the fileds BY THE PICKERS

who also shit in the fields. Ever see a port-a-potty in a farm field?

[RebelOne]

15. Looks like we vegetarians are in trouble.

Our food sources are shrinking.

[VeggieTart]

22. Well, meat always had shit in it

And tumors and growths and hormones and antibiotics. The USDA is run by the industries it's supposed to regulate, and the FDA is toothless. I can only hope that one of these antiregulatory mooks gets E. coli and almost dies.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

16. Remember the imported berries a few years back?

I think they were imported and were contaminated with E. Coli.

I heard one wingnut make the "point" that the FDA was pointless and anyone who still wanted it was delusional, since the outbreak happened even with that agency in existence.

No one called him on the obvious point that no one would KNOW about it without the FDA, and without SOME FDA inspections (they still aren't strict enough) hundreds and perhaps thousands would die every year. The claim that "the market would punish companies that had deadly products" doesn't work because we wouldn't be able to piece together what products might be at fault without a central agency keeping track of it all.

[dailykoff]

17. You know those pickers who are stealing our jobs?

They don't get bathroom breaks and they don't get bathrooms, either.

Guess where they go?

[Eurobabe]

20. Are you serious??

[Rex]

21. Actually, I can see produce prices getting a lot higher as gas goes down.

And the drought and the lost harvests all around the country will cause our money to go for less and less.

But hey, gas prices are low...so who cares? 800 billion derived from illegal immigrants, 200 billion to keep them out of the country. Now who knows how much will be lost as American currency becomes worth less and less.

[Oeditpus Rex]

28. I don't know about where you live

but I live in the area where the tainted greens are coming from (in fact, I knew one of the Nunes brothers), and in every produce field there are two portable toilets.

[Dragonbreathp9d]

19. TERRORIST ATTACK!!!!

[windbreeze]

27. Thank you....that was my first thought today

When I read about the lettuce and e-coli...I told myself...this seems exactly like that terra alert system we had...you know...green/yellow/orange/red....that was conveniently used, when we needed to be brought back into line? This is another damned terror alert system...only now they make us afraid to eat fresh vegetables...what's next??? or don't we want to know...cripes...fear, fear, fear...be afraid, be afraid...
wb

[Buchananfan]

23. SCREW THOSE WHO ARE PUSHING THIS FEAR!

AND THOSE WHO MAY BE FINANCIALLY BENEFITING. EAT WHAT YOU LIKE, ANY DAY AND EVERYDAY

[HeeBGBz]

26. I guess my salad prep will be light this week.

Run, rabbit, run.

I ain't got ptomaine in my Romaine...

[mb7588a]

25. errr...

9/11, 9/11, Anthrax, Democrats, 9/11, Spinach, Beef, 9/11, Democrats, Lettuce.... and.. 9/11. TERRA CABBAGE!