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- reed77, on 07/06/2008, -0/+34Its like salmonella salsa.
- cygnus2112, on 07/06/2008, -2/+27Diarrhea ... cha cha cha!
- johnpaul191, on 07/06/2008, -0/+20buy local!
- Strooperman, on 07/06/2008, -0/+17Buy local or grow your own! Certainly most anyone can grow cilantro.
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -1/+17Spice weasels are still good, right? BAM!
- jotate, on 07/06/2008, -0/+11Seriously, this ***** is ruining my delicious Mexican food.
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -0/+11Huh? Even at the beginning the FDA suspected it was the Mexican tomatoes... Now they're just expanding the possibilities to include peppers and cilantro and other items from Mexico. How is that "protecting" them?
- londubh, on 07/06/2008, -2/+13Either the FDA is incompetent or some people are being protected. The FDA has been gutted so they are woefully understaffed and then packed with Bush appointees who are less than qualified. Most likely it's incompetence and protection.
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -0/+9Salsa might just be the key -
Tomatoes, Cilantro and peppers - make up the basis for most salsa - add onions and maybe we have a thread to follow? - PBurnsOneDown, on 07/06/2008, -1/+10thank you globalization
- aresef, on 07/06/2008, -0/+8So is Chipotle just going to close with all this?
Ah, damnit. - Venkatsubramane, on 07/06/2008, -1/+9I hope to live through this ordeal, and one day, tell my grandchildren the story about the Great Tomato Scare of 2008.
- inactive, on 07/06/2008, -0/+8*facepalm* Yes, fecal matter comes in contact with vegetables. It's called fertilizer.
- ackack, on 07/06/2008, -1/+9So basically they still don't have a freakin' clue.
Heck of a job, FDA! Mission Accomplished! - dizturbd2, on 07/06/2008, -0/+8they will be adding water and air to the list soon, at the rate they're going
- ho0ber, on 07/06/2008, -0/+7yes, because they know what day they contracted it...
- dontstaylong, on 07/06/2008, -0/+7hey FDA, quit ***** up my summer.
- gamabunta, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6When you're walking to the mail and you see a brown trail....
- loki440, on 07/06/2008, -1/+7When you're trying to go legit but realize you're full of sh*t...
- aserer511, on 07/06/2008, -1/+7LOOK AT THESE ***** PEPPERS
THEY'LL ***** KILL YOU - superkendall, on 07/06/2008, -1/+7Of course we do, but some people are simply weak and have a lot of complications from a pretty strong illness like this.
- endgame, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6When I read this article I could not believe that they dont do any testing on the products before they get to the U.S.. That's just simply ridicules, support your local farms STOP buying ***** fruits & vegetables from Mexico. Look at ALL the labels when you buy fruits & vegetables. I think many of you would be shocked to know that most of the garlic you buy at Ralphs & Albertsons is from China. Yet just a couple hundred miles up the coast in Gilroy we have some of the best garlic fields in the world, yet somehow its STILL cheaper to get the garlic from China.
- Egoist, on 07/06/2008, -0/+6Perhaps because your reading comprehension level is so poor. Every article I've read regarding this outbreak mentions that they're looking at several states and Mexico to find the outbreak.
- rald84, on 07/06/2008, -1/+6When you're sliding into home and your pants are full of foam
- rumblestrut, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5Well crap. That's one half of the diet of my Guinea pigs.
- fr3ddie, on 07/06/2008, -2/+7its all part of a plot by mexicans to take over america!
- seanmc303, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5All vegetables are trying to kill us with their salamander diseases. Let face it. It's either us or them. Lets kill all the vegetables before they kill us.
- JohnnySoftware, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5Well, actually, that has happened before in the USA - intentionally, as a matter of fact.
There was a deliberate case of food tampering back in the 1980s. It affected a score of restaurants across a town in Oregon. The cult had targeted the town's food in an attempt to directly subvert the democratic process and essentially take over control of it.
Their idea was to sicken many hundreds of people, keeping them home on election day and bring in vagrant out of town shills from other cities to outvote the real residents, who would be home sickened by severe stomach cramps and other things.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1984_Rajneeshee_biote ...
They mostly got away with it. Took a year for government researchers to stumble upon the fact that what had happened was not merely a case of some accidental food contamination. By that time, they could not seem to bring a case together. Some of the birds had already flown the coop, going back overseas again.
Interestingly, the attack which sickened nearly a thousand people who had eaten out in that town was just a test. It was simply an attempt to see how effective the contagion [Salmonella enterica Typhimurium] they had bought and cultured was when applied directly to salad bar ingredients and the contents of coffee creamer pitchers.
The immigrant medical worker who obtained and cultured the pathogen as a bioweapon nicknamed the culture she handed out to fellow cult members to distribute "salsa".
In 2006, an outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium - the same bacteria as the Rajaneesh cult used in the 1980s, affected tomatoes served in restaurants. See Wikipedia link above for details.
FDA's November 3, 2006 announcement, URL from official web site and quote about the restaurant-vectored salmonella:
"The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today announced the results of an investigation by state and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) investigators, which found consuming tomatoes in restaurants as the cause of illnesses in the Salmonella Typhimurium outbreak. To date, 21 states have reported 183 cases of illnesses to the CDC."
http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2006/NEW01504.h ...
Salmonella salsa, indeed! - Flummoxer, on 07/06/2008, -2/+7You've never heard of salmonella?
I guess you're the type that doesn't wash your hands after cooking with raw chicken. - atact88, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5This obviously means we have to legalize marijuana.
- Amadeus2490, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5Pepto-Bismol.
- facelesscoward, on 07/06/2008, -0/+5Not if we all stop eating.
- Amadeus2490, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4I think they're doing this just to raise the costs of all the produce.
"Well, It's tomatoes!! No. . .It's peppers!! No. . .It's cilantro!! No. . ."
They shouldn't cancel entire shipments just because they THINK that it MAY be a FEW of those vegetables of rtuis that got people sick. - SuperJimmyJimbo, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4NOOO, i need my sweet pepper on my subway club!
- ZenPirate, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4 I started a nice small garden this year. I figure by the time fall hits "clean" veggies will be worth more than gold...
- Typhoon2009, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4ffffuuccckkk
And I thought we had a cure for salmonella? Or at the very least a strong treatment for it? - inactive, on 07/06/2008, -1/+5Haha eat that vegetarians im eating a salmonella free steak.
- smoothmann, on 07/06/2008, -2/+6Salmonella is going to end the entire human population
- andregriffin, on 07/06/2008, -0/+4*****! I was gonna make salsa!
- Heywoodj, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3Attack...of the killer...tomaaatosss.......
Not yet referenced?
Yup got nothen - malaak, on 07/06/2008, -2/+5Pepto Bismal
- trshtehdsh, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3goddamit, pico de gallo is one of my most favorite things in life.
but now i'm 99.99999999% sure that it was eating at chipotle that gave me food poisoning 5 days before the big salmonella story broke. - Egoist, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3Because we still don't know where the outbreak is. Unlike Chinese toys that have the manufacturers' names on every item, tomatoes get mixed in with every other producer's tomatoes and tracking them back is very difficult.
- LaughingMan11, on 07/06/2008, -2/+5Awesome. I hate cilantro anyway!
- winston840, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3And that's why I have a garden . no salmonella on my food.:O
- HappyNihilist, on 07/06/2008, -0/+3Some people think it's funny but it's really brown and runny...
/Inner sever-year-old. - Arcticulates, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2When all is said and done and many business dealing with tomatos are put out of business, they will say oops it wasn't the tomatos after all it was because someone didn't wash their hands before handling in the warehouse!
- snowboarder7, on 07/13/2008, -0/+2Nice! I hate both of these anyway
- prahareturns, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2A few notes:
FDA: The history of the FDA goes back to 1906 and the "Wiley Act" which was focused on goods transfered interstate which would apply to imported food sources.
NAFTA: NAFTA has had positive and negative impacts for all countries involved. US produce exports to Mexico have increased since the inception of NAFTA. Many of Mexico's farmers have been hurt by NAFTA. This is normal for any cross country trade agreement. Finding a 100% win-win pact is virtually impossible.
Salmonella: The Salmonella bacteria has been documented for over 100 years. Just because you are not aware of a bacteria does not build a tie between NAFTA and the bacteria. - VitaminH, on 07/06/2008, -0/+2All you technically need is antibiotics but generally as stated above by the time you realize you need them you're well into it and it anyone with a decent immune system will be killing it off at that time anyway. So honestly, antibiotic use for the otherwise healthy in salmonella is a waste and only furthering antibiotic resistance.
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