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Tainted spinach.
65gto389
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Tainted spinach.
I was watching the news and 'surfing' the internet about this tainted spinach thing. Do any of you know how it all got started and how it did not spread to other leafy vegetables?
I may be WAY out of line here; however I think the spinach is grown only by itself (I believe in CA) and the illegals literally defecated (pooed) and forgot to wash their hands and handeled the vegetable. That could be where the e-coli got started. They (the workers) probably thought the more I harvest, the more payment, so they might have pooed right on the field, and went back to work.
I'm thinking it could also be the cow manure/ fertilizer; however all the vegie farmers use it, and is sterilized (I think) before being packaged. Which makes me think a group of people have started it.
I'm probably wrong in this, and hope I am, but the news and or internet said they kind of know the source, but did not really tell how it got started. How do you guys think it got started?
I was watching the news and 'surfing' the internet about this tainted spinach thing. Do any of you know how it all got started and how it did not spread to other leafy vegetables?
I may be WAY out of line here; however I think the spinach is grown only by itself (I believe in CA) and the illegals literally defecated (pooed) and forgot to wash their hands and handeled the vegetable. That could be where the e-coli got started. They (the workers) probably thought the more I harvest, the more payment, so they might have pooed right on the field, and went back to work.
I'm thinking it could also be the cow manure/ fertilizer; however all the vegie farmers use it, and is sterilized (I think) before being packaged. Which makes me think a group of people have started it.
I'm probably wrong in this, and hope I am, but the news and or internet said they kind of know the source, but did not really tell how it got started. How do you guys think it got started?
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If that is the case, it probliy comes at the prossesing places. I used to load this stuff at Fresh Express in Salinas California who bags salad mixes under a few different names. And I can tell you that thier plants where they bag this stuff is filthy, and the packaging prosses is very rushed.
I used to call to see if my load was ready to be loaded, they would allways say yes. I would show up and they wouldn't have even started to bag it yet. They do this to every truck that is loading there. They don't start even makeing that order untill the truck shows up to load. There for the washing and all suffers because they have to rush to get the load out.
I'm sure my words in the way I'm describeing it are not as bad as it really is. But I can tell you that it is so bad that I will not buy there products and haven't since my first time at thier plant.
Lettuce may not be affected because the growers usually send it to a cooler before it goes to this company and it goes through a type of gas cooling right after it comes out of the field.
And it still could come down to the washing habits of the illegals. I am pretty sure most of the employees at these facilities are illegals. I would go as far as guessing 80% of the mexicans in the Salinas California area are illegals.