Florida tomato industry in 'complete collapse'

[acptulsa]

Has the possibility of Mexican crops come up?
Over the past few years several salmonella outbreaks have been traced to Mexico.
http://www.google.com/search?[/QUOT...we can just expand the FDA to cover Mexico...

 

[acptulsa]

That said, alcohol kills salmonella, just drink a big swig of vodka with your salad.

Well, if we just take care of ourselves, what will be government's excuse to exist? We won't pay to take good care of them if they can't fool us into thinking they're taking good care of us.

 

[Kludge]

Maybe I'm helplessly ignorant, but couldn't they just label the damned things every facility they go through?

 

[asgardshill]

Meh. I'm allergic to raw tomatoes anyway so the rest of the country is now finding out what its like to walk in my shoes.

 

[Kludge]

Meh. I'm allergic to raw tomatoes anyway so the rest of the country is now finding out what its like to walk in my shoes.

We grow our own

 

[asgardshill]

We grow our own

Touche'

 

[LibertyOfOne]

Do you think that the FDA should stop trying to make sure our food supply is safe? The contamination could occur at any point along the production chain- from fertilizer (if they are using organic like manure instead of chemical ones) to a farm worker relieving himself in the field because there was no toilet nearby to the processing plant that washes and slices the tomatos (it appears to be only sliced tomatos) reusing contaminated water. WIth modern mass production techniques, it is much easier to spread contaminants than before when smaller amounts were handled at a time. Last year it was spinach.

Contaminations have been around for a very long time- testing and information is much higher now so more is found, identified, and announced.

As a consumer, just wash your vegetables before you use them and you should be fine.

Yes, because I'm sure food suppliers don't have market forces that push them to make safe food. This hole thing is blown out of proportion. Of the hundreds of millions of tomatoes produced in Florida only 134 cases? Cases that I bet involved idiots who didn't properly wash their food in the first place.

 

[dsentell]

Then there is also the spreading of raw manure on fields.

Since the beginning of mankind this has always been used for fertilizer . . .

 

[HOLLYWOOD]

Yes, because I'm sure food suppliers don't have market forces that push them to make safe food. This hole thing is blown out of proportion. Of the hundreds of millions of tomatoes produced in Florida only 134 cases? Cases that I bet involved idiots who didn't properly wash their food in the first place.

It's the usual SCHEME for GOVERNMENT AGENCIES to increase their budgets and get the funding they want.

look for FDA increases in the near future and this will be another excuse for the FDA to grow and get funding well above the average government agency.

 

[LibertyOfOne]

On the local news it has been reported that the FDA has cleared Florida as the source of the contamination. Way to go...... Millions in sales lost due to the FDA's incompetence.

 

[acptulsa]

Floods in Indiana, fires in California, and tomatoes top the news. Is this because:

a. They don't want us looking at how badly FEMA screws up the response to the other two?

b. The other two don't give the FDA a chance to grow?

c. Those killer tomatoes may be in YOUR REFRIGERATOR! BE AFRAID! BE TERRIFIED!

I would accuse the press of being the "real terrists" but they'd just say they don't make the terror, they just report it...

 

[constituent]

my hypothesis:

genetic engineering is to blame.

the reason being that genetic modification of organisms is not so straightforward as say, i mix a tomato with a squash and get a tomatosquash.

when genes are mixed what happens is different processes get switched on and off... then there is a cascading effect throughout the organism that can result in all sorts of things.

would the production of live salmonella within the tomato by accident or otherwise be beyond the scope of possibility? i don't think so.

not to suggest i have proof that would say it is (genetic engineering), but i don't know that anyone can authoritatively say that it isn't, yet.

 

[voytechs]

Buy local. We lost control over our food long ago, but there is nothing stopping any one from purchasing from local farmers. Yet.

 

[asgardshill]

Of the hundreds of millions of tomatoes produced in Florida only 134 cases? Cases that I bet involved idiots who didn't properly wash their food in the first place.

Yep. Isn't it yummy to think about eating a nugget of some migrant worker's Hershey squirts every time you wrap your mouth around a succulent but unwashed tomato from the grocery store? Wash your food people - you don't know where its been.

 

[CurtisLow]

Yep. Isn't it yummy to think about eating a nugget of some migrant worker's Hershey squirts every time you wrap your mouth around a succulent but unwashed tomato from the grocery store? Wash your food people - you don't know where its been.

Funny but very true! plus all the chemicals they spray on it all



I ran across this video some time ago and found it in my bookmarks. Very scary what this company did and was allowed to do even tho the FDA knew about it..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS3mhjt7TrY

 

[FindLiberty]

Now we have killer Tomatoes? OMG, what is this world coming to?

A "100 year" zombie is running for POTUS on the GOP ticket, we have conviction and prison time for victimless pre-crimes of thought or intent, the federal war on SOME drugs, a regional war based on lies and greed kills hundreds of thousands of innocents, wire taps, homeland security informants, waterboarding, US $ hit the fan, and now there's even sh#! on the food...

And this list is growing faster than those killer tomatoes.

I know I'm awake (from the Matrix) 'cause I took the red pill. But, all this makes the blue (butterfly?) pill seem oh so very attractive

 

[torchbearer]

Nothing wrong with the tomatoes in louisiana.
Been serving them all week. No deaths or illness to report.
Of course, we sell locally grown tomatoes.

 

[electronicmaji]

I Read this as "Florida Tornado Industry"

I'm glad their in collapse...fucking tornadoes...

 

[SeanEdwards]

One significant contributor is the mass integrated distribution system that means people can find themselves eating food products from halfway around the world. This can make it difficult to identify the source of an outbreak, and any outbreak of disease can quickly impact consumers all over the place.

Just another reason why borders and compartmentalization is not such a bad idea. This is another downside of globalism.

 

[Working Poor]

There goes the FDA again pissing on the lively hood of farmers.

Agreed. I don't trust the FDA one little bit. I think they may have found something that is actually nutritious so they have to shut that down....

I don't trust them....