Toss Your Bagged Spinach

[jenscats5]

I went into a Kroger's last night looking for spinach - NONE. Ended up w/ romaine hearts.

They've been pulling it from the shelves according to the news.....

And E.Coli doesn't depend on storage as MM said......

Ooops! Didn't see this thread B4 I made one.....

 

[musclemom]

I suppose the best way to look at it is - if a kid can eat a mouthful of mud and survive we can eat a spot of bacteria.

Oh hell yeah!!! Absolutely!

The best thing a parent can do is LET a kid get dirty, seriously. It's a fact that the kids whose parents are obsessed with germicidal soaps and keeping their kids uber clean and ultra safe grow up to have a lot of allergies later in life. It seems that it's better if your immune system learns what to look out for when you're young.

Generally speaking, the grubbier kids, the ones who play outside, get down in the mud, wrestle with the dog and share their ice cream with him, chew the gum they find under tables and eat food that hit the floor grow up to be healthier people.

 

[jenscats5]

Oh hell yeah!!! Absolutely!

The best thing a parent can do is LET a kid get dirty, seriously. It's a fact that the kids whose parents are obsessed with germicidal soaps and keeping their kids uber clean and ultra safe grow up to have a lot of allergies later in life. It seems that it's better if your immune system learns what to look out for when you're young.

Generally speaking, the grubbier kids, the ones who play outside, get down in the mud, wrestle with the dog and share their ice cream with him, chew the gum they find under tables and eat food that hit the floor grow up to be healthier people.

A healthy immune system is nothing to sneeze at!! Get it??

 

[H_T_]

it's because of filthy workers urinating & defecating in the products. nasty ass pickers.

 

[musclemom]

it's because of filthy workers urinating & defecating in the products. nasty ass pickers.

I was trying to avoid saying that Toilet facilities are not provided or so far from the harvest location that there is no other place to go, or no time to go. When you're paid by the pound for what you harvest, 10 minutes to run across a field (have you ever tried to cross a field on foot? Trust me, not easy) to go to the latrine represents several pounds of lost picking time, which means less money for your family.

Additionally, I wonder if manufacturers actually use 1000s of gallons of pure, fresh water that they would need to wash vegetables. I imagine that they recycle a LOT of water used for "washing" without using basic decontamination/purification.

 

[Daisy_Girl]

I heard this was possibly due to a well that overflowed and contaminated the field. Washing would do nothing because once it was in the soil, it went into the roots to of the plants and INTO the leaves. Not on the OUTSIDE, rather the INSIDE of the plants.

 

[musclemom]

I heard this was possibly due to a well that overflowed and contaminated the field. Washing would do nothing because once it was in the soil, it went into the roots to of the plants and INTO the leaves. Not on the OUTSIDE, rather the INSIDE of the plants.

That does not sound logical ... plants do not absorb E. Coli, it's an aerobic bacteria, it cannot live inside a plant. Flatulence is one of the byproducts of the digestive process of the bacteria, ergo, the spinach would blow up.

Sounds to me like propagando, because frankly e. coli is related bacteria that are in the soil already. Soil is NOT a sterile medium, it's loaded with all sorts of critters bacteria and microbes (if it weren't, it would be dead matter and nothing would grow in it). Just like WE're loaded with bacteria, viruses and microbes that make up the microcosm of our bodies. Bacteria are what digest our food, without them we would absorb no nutrients.

 

[scorpiogirl]

That does not sound logical ... plants do not absorb E. Coli, it's an aerobic bacteria, it cannot live inside a plant. Flatulence is one of the byproducts of the digestive process of the bacteria, ergo, the spinach would blow up.

Sounds to me like propagando, because frankly e. coli is related bacteria that are in the soil already. Soil is NOT a sterile medium, it's loaded with all sorts of critters bacteria and microbes (if it weren't, it would be dead matter and nothing would grow in it). Just like WE're loaded with bacteria, viruses and microbes that make up the microcosm of our bodies. Bacteria are what digest our food, without them we would absorb no nutrients.

Lady - you ROCK! lol Always a wealth of great info. I think I learn something from every post you put up! lol

 

[musclemom]

Lady - you ROCK! lol Always a wealth of great info. I think I learn something from every post you put up! lol

Oh, you are too sweet ... you know, this is weird, this is the second international board, that I belong to, that I've seen that information on.

Obviously there is some sort of active campaign going to ... ummm, plant ideas in people's minds ...

 

[scorpiogirl]

Oh, you are too sweet ... you know, this is weird, this is the second international board, that I belong to, that I've seen that information on.

Obviously there is some sort of active campaign going to ... ummm, plant ideas in people's minds ...

What info are you refering to....the flooded field?