It was wild pigs, says the MSM. Do you reckon the investigators and media were more comfortable blaming pigs than farmworker hygenic deficiencies?
It was wild pigs, says the MSM.
Here's a combination of pigs and humans! From the article:
Carriers tend to be people from rural developing countries with poor hygiene, where pigs are allowed to roam freely and eat human feces. Mr. Tsang said the condition is rife in Mexico and other parts of Latin America and Central America and "in a large part of China and Africa."
And it's only the wild pigs in CALIFORNIA that contaminate spinach fields and no other state. We train em right!
Some of the investigators did blame worker hygiene, but the media let that go by without comment. When the contaminated carrot juice story of a few years ago waas traced back directly to a worker, the story disappeared from the media.
Pigs were not a possible "source" but a possible link in the chain of victims. Of course pigs don't have good habits of hygiene either.
As for cattle, the ones that the media show (from file footage) are grazing pasture on the hillsides and they are generally pathogen free. But there are hundres of dirty muddy backyard corrals near the spinach and lettuce fields where Mexicans feed their sorry looking animals garbage and concentrates--micro feed lots, if you will, without the staff veterinarians that the big feed lots have.