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rjs
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it's time we do a better job in food inspections in and outside this country by goverment inspections not by the induistry makeing the money
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hesingswithfrogs
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Problems like these are what happens when businesses are allowed to "get government regulation of their back." Businesses will always kick and scream for less regulation, and to the extent that regulation can be streamlined, that's a good thing, but when businesses try to defeat the very regulations that are put in place to protect our citizens, that's when I have a problem. The next time you hear businesspersons moaning about getting "government regulation off their backs" remember this outbreak and question their motives before sympathizing. This is the safety of our food supply, the safety of the drugs we take, the safety of our transportation systems, our our energy stores, our children's toys. Greed is a corrupting force in this country. It needs to be tempered with responsibility.
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city resident
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eat and buy local. it's that simple.
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Wags
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Great, we closed down an industry and it wasn't even the right one! I blame the lack of common sense for 1) Not thoroughly washing all vegetable when you get them home. 2)The desire to eat raw products, especially those imported from Mexico. No one wants to admit what everyone who has travelled to Mexico knows, Don't Eat The Raw Vegetables. The sanitary conditions in much of Mexico is deplorable.
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John
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It looks like I was correct from the beginning. The government has known all along that the tomato problem is from Mexico, but due to political correctness, did not want to say so.
The government is afraid of offending our neighbor to the South.
IMHO, public safety is more important than being PC.
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Jubal
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Haven't seen any information to show if the strain (or strains) of bacteria are unique to a geographic area, or are "common." If the first, then it is a processing problem. If the second, it's a cultural problem: wash hands and produce before using.
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Ghost Dancer
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This is just what jalepenos do, sit back and enjoy the cheap cleansing.
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lihansen
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Very sad that Rep. Diana DeGette's only solution is to throw more money at it. Money fixes everything, right? Except that it YOUR money and YOU should have the right to decide how you spend it and how much.
We in this fix because of this DO NOTHING Congress. Show us a PLAN, SOMETHING other than more money.
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Ghost Dancer
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This is just what jalapenos do,sit back and enjoy the cheap cleansing.
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Yeow
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Ghost Dancer wrote: This is just what jalepenos do, sit back and enjoy the cheap cleansing. Yikes!!!
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wmwassom
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im sure they knew where the probem was but like here in texas you have to look out for mexico first so try to shift it elsewhere it they can
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Vox
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Jalpenos peppers have been causing all this chaos? Are you kidding me? As a person intimately familiar with this issue I am at once hopeful that the answers are at hand and dissapointed that the FDA took so long to figure it out. It is now safe to assume that the next time such an event occurs a hundred million+ North Americans will avoid produce alltogether. If the offending souce proves to be Mexican or Central American wholsalers and large chain stores will prudently avoid products from anywhere south of the border. And honestly who could blame them>
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Jack
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It is so amazing that they go to get a quote from the wacko facists at Center for Science in the Public Interest. Everytime I see these wackos quoted in a news article it just reminds me of how biased the news is... I am sure there are 100 less politicized and more believable groups who could say something intelligent about the need for food tracking and labeling. And why don't they get a quote from somebody who is against more labeling and tracking of food? I am sure it will further increase the costs of food. If this outbreak has less than 1000 reported cases, is it really worth passing new laws???
I don't believe much of what I read anymore.
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Dave
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I have two comments:
1) See what happens when gov't is in charge, they can't even figure out what the problem is, and all you people want THIS same government to take over your health care needs.
2) The reason people aren't buying tomatoes is because the produce industry has insisted on keeping the price outrageous (3.00/pound) as opposed to dropping the price to a more reasonble level to induce consumption.
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Tragedy TV
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In a nation of 300 million, is an outbreak affecting a few hundred people even statistically significant? The food supply is as safe as ever. Unfortunately, we now have 24-hour cable TV news channels who need to fill air time by manufacturing a new "crisis" every day.
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david
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if it's not jalapenos, could be cantaloupe, watermelon, red peppers, romaine lettuce, bananas, turnips, yellow onions, parsley, asparagus, spinach,...
or perhaps the source is some idiot inspector's dirty hands.
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Check Your Six
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Grow your own and keep the neighbor's dog out of the vegetable garden.
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Betty
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mousey wrote: <quoted text>
I completely and wholeheartedly agree. We don't need Mexicans peeing on our food and making us all sick. Better to grow domestically where production and distribution is easier to monitor, than to import who knows what? Buying local is a great idea, but try getting "local" seasonal employees to work on farms. Is there ANY wage at which Americans would consider doing the temporary, hot and dirty, back-breaking work? Does this story point to the need for a realistic, efficient, AGRICULTURAL GUEST WORKER program? Agricultural, seasonal workers do NOT want to stay year round - Make it easy for them to come and go, and they will.
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Jaenus
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One question for all those that believe anything the US tells you. Why are Mexicans not getting sick from salmonella from this outbreak? So I can imagine two possible counterarguments:
a) Mexico knows where the salmonella is and sends the infected veggies to the US so that they get sick.
b) Mexicans are immune to salmonella
I don't have a response to a). I find it highly unlikely. For b), I only have to say that there are salmonella outbreaks in Mexico every so often (perhaps more often than in the US) and everybody finds out about them. They haven't found any outbreaks recently.
I propose another explanation to the recent news. Perhaps the US is feeling the pressure and feels they have to find a culprit. Isn't it always easiest to just blame Mexico, since as we see in the comments in this page, everybody will believe it was Mexico's fault?
Did you know 50% of Americans still believe Sadam Hussein had something to do with 9/11. There's something about American biases that makes me want to puke...
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Sam Houston
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As soon as this problem is linked to Mexico or Mexican immigrant labor, it will promptly disappear from the media, never to be mentioned again.
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