It's not just tomatoes that are dangerous

[Cyrano]

The latest outbreak of salmonella in tomatoes is just the tip of the iceberg. The Food and Drug Administration, (the FDA), cannot be trusted. Nor can any other government agency run by a George W. Bush appointee -- which is all of them.

The foxes are in charge of all the hen houses. Industry CEOs or lobbyists have been appointed to run departments which are (supposedly) responsible for watching out for the American people. In truth, they are looking out for the interests of the industries they are supposed to oversee. And what that means is that we can't trust the drugs we take, the food we eat, or the air we breathe.

Is there anyone left who really believes that we're not playing in a game rigged in favor of insurance companies, banks and Wall Street insiders? Does anyone really believe the oil companies aren't sucking every last drop of blood from us that they can before BushCheney leave the White House?

"The magic of the marketplace," is and always was a myth perpetrated by and for the haves and have mores for the sole purpose of screwing all the rest of us. Unregulated capitalism is the equivalent of Al Capone's Chicago.

Over the past eight years we have witnessed, and been the victims of, the biggest heist in history. Kucinich came up with 35 articles of impeachment. The reality is that BushCheney could probably be brought up on a few thousand articles of impeachment.

And for anyone who thinks we should do nothing about this, enjoy your tomatoes.

[Warpy]

1. In the short term, cook your food

unless you grow it yourself.

[SpiralHawk]

2. Another pathetic chapter in republicon rule

Why do republicons hate good farming and careful preparation of food?

[mnhtnbb]

3. Who needs tomatoes? Eat ketchup--that's Republican veggies!

[Lifetimedem]

4. Do you remember ??

When he said Americans could not bring in drugs from Canada because we had no way to know if they are "pure"

Well now OUR drugs are produced in China with no oversight. We have no way of knowing what we are putting in our body (Think of the recent heparin scare)


Who was it that said Capitalists would sell them the rope with which to hang them? .... Bush has proved the truth of this ...

[defendandprotect]

5. Why is animal-fecal matter called "fertilizer" . . . . and why are field workers

run like slaves without bathroom facilities and bathroom breaks???

Why do we see so many TV cooking shows where they never wash the food?????

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

8. Answers.

1. Because it makes soil fertile. Beats the hell out of dumping it in the ocean.

2. I don't know. I guess those porta-potties set up at the side of fields must be for somebody else.

3. Because the need to wash food should be obvious to everybody over the age of six or seven.

[Oeditpus Rex]

6. Depends on how hard you throw 'em

[gravity]

7. We shouldn't jump to conclusions on the tomatoes

until the source of the outbreak is determined.

Regulation can never make anything 100% safe, and stuff like this could slip through unless you are willing to test every single tomato before you eat it. The FDA did the right thing of warning consumers so that no one else can get sick from this.

If they find that this could have been easily preventable, then you have the right to take up arms, but wait until all the facts get in first.

[zulchzulu]

9. OK...how's this...

There was a tomato family walking down the road. Suddenly Daddy Tomato noticed that Junior Tomato was way behind the group. So he ran to the Junior Tomato and stomped and squished him all over the road and yelled "Ketchup!"

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