Salmonella in Tomatoes
I haven't written in a while, but, I am back.
This lastest FDA scare boggles the mind. We are supposed to believe that salmonella somehow got to the inside of tomatoes all over the place all at once. A few problems with this:
First, a tomato is a hard skinned fruit. Salmonella cannot get to the inside unless the skin is cut. Plants do not pick up bacteria from the roots and carry them up into the plant. Don't happen.
Second: We gotta put a lockdown on all the tomatoes because we have no idea where the offending tomatoes came from. Poppycock. Balderdash. How about: pure bullshit. The restaurant or grocery store knows damned well where they bought their produce. The market that sold it has bills of lading showing the origin of every load that they sold. Each box of produce has bar codes and numbers showing the farm it came from, how, who, where and when it was shipped et cetera.
Third: We don't know how the salmonella got into humans: Bullshit. Period. Salmonella is primarily associated with raw poultry. The old man that died supposedly got the tomato from a mexican restaurant. Let us think about this and use a little reasoning. I am willing to bet that an illegal alien or possibly just an untrained and unmotivated as well as unsupervised "food worker" messed around with some raw chicken and then, without washing his or her hands, or without changing his or her little gloves, put together a dish using raw tomatoes. Voilla'. Salmonella has been transferred to an unsuspecting customer.
This whole thing is a government test. One. to see if the sheeple will buy the story, and two, to see what happens when supply chains are interrupted. We once again have failed the test.
If you want to remain healthy, do not cross-contaminate raw poultry and foods that are not going to be cooked afterward. Don't eat fast food. Don't trust government to take care of you. Grow a garden.
Keep your powder dry and remember: If government is the answer, it is a stupid question.
This lastest FDA scare boggles the mind. We are supposed to believe that salmonella somehow got to the inside of tomatoes all over the place all at once. A few problems with this:
First, a tomato is a hard skinned fruit. Salmonella cannot get to the inside unless the skin is cut. Plants do not pick up bacteria from the roots and carry them up into the plant. Don't happen.
Second: We gotta put a lockdown on all the tomatoes because we have no idea where the offending tomatoes came from. Poppycock. Balderdash. How about: pure bullshit. The restaurant or grocery store knows damned well where they bought their produce. The market that sold it has bills of lading showing the origin of every load that they sold. Each box of produce has bar codes and numbers showing the farm it came from, how, who, where and when it was shipped et cetera.
Third: We don't know how the salmonella got into humans: Bullshit. Period. Salmonella is primarily associated with raw poultry. The old man that died supposedly got the tomato from a mexican restaurant. Let us think about this and use a little reasoning. I am willing to bet that an illegal alien or possibly just an untrained and unmotivated as well as unsupervised "food worker" messed around with some raw chicken and then, without washing his or her hands, or without changing his or her little gloves, put together a dish using raw tomatoes. Voilla'. Salmonella has been transferred to an unsuspecting customer.
This whole thing is a government test. One. to see if the sheeple will buy the story, and two, to see what happens when supply chains are interrupted. We once again have failed the test.
If you want to remain healthy, do not cross-contaminate raw poultry and foods that are not going to be cooked afterward. Don't eat fast food. Don't trust government to take care of you. Grow a garden.
Keep your powder dry and remember: If government is the answer, it is a stupid question.
Labels: common sense, government, health, salmonella
posted by nappy at 6:45 AM
1 Comments:
What the heck are these poor guys supposed to do with a million pounds of packed crates sitting in their refrigerated distribution sites? They have to pay to refrigerate taboo items which are now garbage? I didn't get the argument about the vines. "Tomatoes on the vine" are supposed to be okay. Do they mean tomatoes you buy with the vine on (which are mostly imported from Holland, hello), or that are still sitting in the field on the vine? You are right that it doesn't make sense. The tomatoes that ARE NO LONGER on the vine were RECENTLY ON the vine, yes? And if the ones that came off the vine aren't safe, why are the ones still on the vine safe??? I think it must be some form of clandestine boycotting, as you'll notice only certain types are targeted. Believe me, if we had any sun not shade, I'd grow my own. Homegrown are the only REAL tomatoes.
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