Fresh Spinach From California Recalled

Fox news ^ | Wednesday, August 29, 2007

[Kellis91789]

And you believe that, why ? What were they going to say ? That their policy of not enforcing immigration had created a national health hazard ? Riiiiight.

You must not realize to what extent political correctness has taken over.

Did you see the part in the investigation where all the field workers had their blood, urine, and feces tested and were given clean bills of health ? And that all workers were accounted for with no illegals gone “missing” since the E. Coli was discovered ? What’s that you say ? That wasn’t part of the investigation ?

[1rudeboy]

No, but it allows the inference that you were not joking. And even if you are, that doesn't explain all the other FReepers who were on those interminable E.Coli threads saying the same thing (presumably because they slept through their high school science classes).

[nicmarlo]

Here we go again!!

[Kellis91789]

I weep for your gullibility.

[1rudeboy]

Ok, stop typing and slowly back away from the keyboard.

[SkyDancer]

Been fighting with my mom regarding fresh vs frozen and regular vs organic ... I won’t eat organic and am very careful on the fresh stuff .... anything from S. America I won’t touch off season ... last scare from there were salad onions and green peppers ....

[countess]

We all have E. coli in our feces. In general, E. coli O157:H7 only shows up in tests during the first 4 days of infection. So saying every field worker got a clean bill just won’t cut the musta...spinach.

[Rb ver. 2.0]

“Illegal aliens - pooping on the spinach crop that Americans won’t.”

When the farmer puts the outhouse at the other end of a mile long field, It doesn’t matter what nationality the worker is, if he’s got to crap he’s gonna do it right there, not walk a mile with bomb in his pants.

[Kellis91789]

I especially like these parts:

[Investigators said they could not make a “definitive determination” ]

and

[Otto Kramm, the head of Mission Organics, told The Californian newspaper in Salinas that no pig tracks had been found near spinach fields,]

Yep. That’s a pretty solid investigation, alrighty. They give a “maybe” and another negative on how it got into the spinach, but that’s good enough for you. It was “in the area”. Maybe you should actually *read* an article you want to cite as “proof” instead of just swallowing the headline like a gullible sheeple.

[Plutarch]

Once again, the wild pigs must be trotted out for blame (so that attention can be directed away from the farmworker squatting in the field).

[1rudeboy]

Kinda’ blows a hole in “’statistically so likely that denial would be ridiculous,’” now doesn’t it? Have you already forgotten your comments on this thread?

[elli1]

The Seed Spider Roller Seeder is our established top end planter, designed for sowing high density crops such as baby leaf salad, spinach and baby carrots.

This side load spinach harvester also has a capacity of about 10,000lbs of spinach per hour. It has the operating advantage of being able to continue harvest operations when the field conditions get wet and muddy. Like the wheeled Spinach Harvester, options include a sort belt, and a density sort system to remove heavy debris from the cut leaves.

[Kellis91789]

So it is basically impossible to eliminate the field workers as the source of contagion ? Imagine that.

And rather than even suggest it might have been the field workers, let’s go a mile away and find E. Coli in another pasture, even though there are no animal tracks leading back to the spinach fields, and let’s just assume it somehow crossed that distance.

Yep, that would be the politically correct thing to tell the sheeple.

[djf]

Salmonella is pretty mild.
It can be avoided by cooking the spinach, one of my favorites is to sautee up a bunch of spinach, onions, maybe half a bell pepper, then toss in about 3 eggs and scramble the mess.

A bit of hot peanut sauce and maybe a touch of horseradish.
Couple slices of garlic bread.
Pretty quick and very satisfying.

[Kellis91789]

I haven’t forgotten my comments, but you don’t seem to have read them at all.

You have two posibilities: unsanitary workers, or pigs crossing from a field a mile away even when there are no pig tracks found.

I know which one I would consider more statistically likely. And it ain’t the pigs.

[1rudeboy]

. . . and let’s just assume it somehow crossed that distance.

You're the one assuming that the only method of transmission is human. What about contaminated groundwater?

[1rudeboy]

There are certain dangers in starting with your conclusion and working your way backward. I’ll just leave it at that.

[Revolting cat!]

Great news!

Ban Spinach Forever!

[RoadKingSE]

Amazing! Only four posts before some xenophobe brings up illegals pooping on the crops.

HEY! There's no xena phobes in here. We admire the Warrior Princess.

[Kellis91789]

Limiting the possible answers to only those that are politically correct is very unscientific.

There are many areas of Latin America, Asia, and Africa where human waste is still used today as fertilizer. There is no *logical* reason to rule out the workers as the source of contagion. In the face of negative evidence of pig tracks, only political correctness would keep you blind to the possibility of the workers.