Posted on 06/09/2008 7:46:40 PM PDT by topher
Tomatoes are my favorite too, but they’re a fruit! :O
Which is why 'outbreaks' such as this; leave me as curious; as I am suspicious.
As did the 'lead paint' scare; bird flu; mad cow et al. Seems a whole lot of manipulation and creation of 'fear' going on; all to which damage our economy and impact the next reported bad-news stats.
Not to say there are not some genuine concerns here; but question the MO; and if there is not a bigger agenda, that is driving 'consumer warnings'.
[It is so typical of the 'demonization' tactics of the Left. One of the newer 'demons' are the plastic water bottles; and now 'tap' is best. These folks get to the heart of the matter quickly, by creating 'fear' - if only one of vanity. So, best campaign efforts have us hearing how plastic bottles make 'lip wrinkles'! (Can only imagine how 'kissing' might impact one's face as well! But they do not explain. . .)]
Anyway; bottom line, should may well be; Buyer 'Beware' - particularly as to what the intent may be behind the 'warning message'. . .
We pick our still green tomatoes just before frost, wash them in a very weak solution of bleach and water, let them dry and store in a dark place. Have had ripe tomatoes from the garden as late as December.
About half of our green tomatoes, that are not going to ripen before frost, end up slice and fried.
You had ripe homegrown tomatoes today? I’m jealous! Won’t have any homegrown tomatoes for at least another month here.
We are all gonna die die I tell ya !!!
Now please pass me some of those fresh tomatoes I need to put them next to my undercooked steak and eat them with my unwashed hands.
Sufferin sassafras the nation is run by the professional handwringers lately.
They were cherry tomatoes, which are usually the first I get.
Two - not even a mouth full.
I would bet on the outside. Contamination comes from illegals locked in with the produce for days at a time. The ‘maters can be whistle clean as they pass border inspection only to be shat upon a few miles down the road.
"You've seen those half mile to a mile long rows they grow in California, haven't you?"
"Yeah, what about them?"
"Did you also notice the privies at the ends of the rows?"
"Yeah, what about them?"
"If you're in the middle of the row, and you have a sudden attack of gastro-enteritis, do you think you'd make it to the end of the row?"
He never ate uncooked or unpeeled vegetables, except ones grown by small, local farmers, after that.
This has a 3rd world type of ring.
Well since no news media is announcing where it was grown I would bet my house it was Mexico. This is sick that we live in a society where the media purposely covers up the source of a deadly outbreak in order to be PC. If the tomatos were grown in Illinois or Virginia the states would be plastered all over the headlines.
All this thread is missing is Dane defending the rights of Mexican tomato farmers pooping in the fields therefore contaminating the tomatos...
Oh thank God the FReeper Gods have banned Dane!!! The world will be safe from illegal alien backers once more!!!
This has a 3rd world type of ring.
Hmmm
New Mexico and in Texas that I know of.
Uh, it's being reported that it was grown in Texas and New Mexico.
Twenty-three have been hospitalized. The majority of the infections have occurred in New Mexico and Texas, but cases also have been reported in Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Utah, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.
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Nothing about being connected as possible sources according to this MSM report. The Texas/New Mexico cases were connected by similarities of the problem.
The article goes on to say
Among safe tomatoes are "tomatoes grown in Arkansas, California, Georgia, Hawaii, North and South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Puerto Rico. The FDA also cleared tomatoes from Belgium, Canada, Dominican Republic, Guatemala, Israel and Netherlands."
Florida and Mexico are both omitted from that list. The article did not explain why except to say that Florida has had problems in the past and there was no mention of Mexico in the article at all. I say that proves that the source is known to be Mexico -- that of course is IMHO.
Goodness Grows in NC!
Statewide project to educate people about how much food NC farmers produce. Course, “farmers” includes commercial fishermen, and my guys hunt and we garden. Miss the dairy stuff. Just no good here.
I'm pretty sure that it's on the inside, drawn up into the tomato as it grows in salmonella infected soil. It gets inside the plant through the root hairs and once inside it just keeps multiplying. You should always wash your vegetables, but in this case it won't solve the problem.
I don’t know why EVERY state doesn’t toot their own horn this way. You can’t swing a dead cat around here without hitting a Farm Stand in the summer months...they even have indoor Farmer’s Markets during the winter months now for baked goods, jams & jellies, preserves of all kinds, wine, cheese, etc.
Life is Good. :)
You dried out yet Diana? Been watching the news and it’s tragic, I saw where there were some deaths in Indiana.
I have some good sized tomatoes on one of my plants, and 25 tomatoe plants in all.
I bought a big red one at the local grocery store this week (because mine are still green) but it will probably be my last one, and it was grown near here. We have “Grainger County” tomatoes now at the stores, they are the next best thing to ones you grow.
LOL. Like you, at the end of the growing season I have my windows full of green ones. I think today I’ll pick the few big green ones I have and stick them in the window.
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