Another Spinach Recall

[Matterhorn Fan]

Click here for more. (http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_wires/2007Aug29/0,4675,TaintedSpinach,00.html)

[Tref]

Celebrate deregulation!

[Gemini Cricket]

That's why you shouldn't eat veggies. Long live meat!

[RStar]

"The veggies are for decoration only. Do not eat the veggies."

Quoted from the Gallery of Unfortunate Food.

[Matterhorn Fan]

I would grow my own veggies on my balcony if I got any sun.

[Tref]

I would grow my own veggies on my balcony if I got any sun.

What about your roof?

[Matterhorn Fan]

That's funny.

[RStar]

I try to grow my own. I use organic farming practices. Unfortunatly, that doesn't work well in our tight packed landscaped housing tracts. So most of my spinach and leafy greens got chewed up by little green catipillars and grass hoppers. I tried the organic vegitable spray (perenthians), but it didn't do a bit of good.

And I've had samenella. Got it from a salad bar at Sizzler. Comes from the feces of farm workers that take a dump and don't wash. Nearly killed my little daugter (This was about 15 years ago). I think I'd rather eat the catipillar infested leaves, thank you very much.:rolleyes:

[CoasterMatt]

I thought this thread was gonna be about Popeye getting stomach flu...

[Gn2Dlnd]

I'm sorry your daughter got ill, but, cows on grain diets are the likely cause of e. coli getting into your salad. One would think that cow manure would be a benefit to your local organic farmer. This would be true if cows, which are grass eaters, were only fed hay. Cows digest hay easily without creating acid-resistant e. coli. The human digestive system dispatches this form of e. coli handily. Cows do not digest grain easily, creating acid-resistant e.coli in the process. Run-off from grain-fed cattle farms into your salad grower's land is the likely culprit.

Source: Science Daily (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/1998/09/980911075347.htm) from a news release by Cornell University

[RStar]

Yes, that's true. That is where the source came from on the last recall. But we had saminella poisoning, not e.coli. (this recall is saminella bacteria). And 15 years ago, that's what the CDC told us when they questioned us in the hospital. What they said was- how many sinks do you see in those portable toilets in the fields? None, generally the workers don't wash afterwards! :eek: But, unlike e.coli, saminella can be washed off. All Sizzler had to do is wash the fruits and vegitables, and we wouldn't have gotten sick.

And, that's one reason why I don't use cow manure in my yard. The other is due to all the salts from the urine that can be found in the manure. We already have alkaline soil here. I use plant compost.

[Gn2Dlnd]

You're right, I confused salmonella with e. coli. Didi the CDC have some pattern with other restaurants that led them to the field workers? Seems kind of presumptuous. My very first job was as a dishwasher/busboy/salad bar attendant at a Sizzler in Riverside. I can assure you, 16 year olds with their first job aren't all that educated on the food borne illness thing.