[kellynla]

At $4/LB who buys fresh tomatoes anymore... time to grow your own!

[Atlas Sneezed]

Maybe they should can them.

[the invisib1e hand]

America Tomato Industry Reeling: Growers

Very surprising.

Had the headline read, America Fishing Industry Reeling: Tuna, it wouldn't have been such a shocker.

[BOBTHENAILER]

At $4/LB who buys fresh tomatoes anymore

With this "fishy" salmonella scare, the greedy capitalists of "BIG TOMATO" are falsely jacking the price up to more than $6/LB.

We need a WINDFALL PROFITS" tax on BIG TOMATO !!!!!

[Mamzelle]

What do you want to bet that the bad tomatoes will turn out to be from Mexico?

[NormsRevenge]

the best are the homegrown fresh picked..

ai yi yiiii

[TomGuy]

[Tomatoes here are still in the $0.69-1.98/lb range. They did hit $3+ a couple of years ago for a short period.]

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When the spinach contamination hit, it took several months to get that sorted out.

Ironically, the shelf-life of such products are closer to days, not weeks, and certainly not months. One would think that the problem would cycle out in a couple of weeks. Yet, these contamination events seem to take several months.

Something is rotten, and it isn’t the spinach or the tomatoes.

[ripley]

question:

can the roots of tomato plants take in salmonella and distribute it to the plant making it part of the fruit?

[Veto!]

My market had very good tomatoes, the kind with three or four attached by a stem, on sale for 78 cents/pound yesterday. My news shows say tomatoes with stems are OK. I eat a tomato every day and will continue. I use a spray-on veggie cleaner that removes a ton of greenish stuff from the skins, then rinse with warm water, dry and put them in fridge.

All of which our local health department recommends.

[cripplecreek]

I grow my own along with various peppers and turn them into my winter supply of salsa.

[LiberConservative]

Does salmonella live under the skin of a tomato for cryin’ out loud? Shut down the entire tomato industry because we are too stupid to wash them before we eat them? This entire story smells funny.

[elpadre]

“At $4/LB who buys fresh tomatoes anymore... time to grow your own!”

with the price of food, we have planted our first veggie garden since we were young trying to eke out a living.

we call it our “Victory” garden as they did in WWII when huge amounts of food were shipped overseas and everyone at home encouraged to grow a “Victory” garden to help the war effort, to some degree.

[B Knotts]

The stuff we have in storage is getting riper every minute

Indeed, that would be a marked change from the usual state of tomatoes offered for sale.

[Arrowhead1952]

Garden ping list may like this.

[neverdem]

thanks, bfl

[Arrowhead1952]

Just heard about this, but the first article says 15 hours ago.

State: Florida tomatoes clear in salmonella scare

Florida tomatoes deemed safe by USDA