our food supply is seriously compromised. three times in the last two weeks I’ve been slammed with the SPLS*, one instance bad enough to seriously compromise my father’s day visit with dear old dad. in each case I’d eaten salad the evening before in a decent restaurant.
(*Screaming Projectile Liquid Shits)
in a recent article on alternet, allison kilkenny writes:
In 2007, a California produce company recalled bagged fresh spinach after a sample tested positive for salmonella. Nearly a year before, an outbreak of E. coli in fresh spinach killed three people and sickened 200. The recent tomato salmonella outbreak has affected at least 145 people, resulting in 23 hospitalizations, and many believe water contamination is the cause of the affected tomatoes.
It’s not the veggies that are to blame. The problem is the meat. Salmonella is an animal pathogen, so it doesn’t originate from tomatoes. Most experts agree that the bacteria probably come from groundwater contaminated with animal feces.
You read that right: Cow shit is in your tomatoes.
and it’s getting there via the aquifer, at the exact same moment that many large US cities are signing a pledge against buying bottled water.
these days my apocalyptic daymares are a combination of hurricanes, earthquakes, lightning
storms (such as several hundred this week that set half of california on fire), and an exodus of terrified pedestrians fleeing the cities in a world that’s run out of gas.
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I think it may be the chickenshit(yet another bad pun) in the water as well. I seem to remember always being told that raw chicken carries salmonella and to sanitize thoroughly any hands, countertops, cutting boards and other porous surfaces.
Cows contaminate the rivers here all the time; I am, after all, in cowboy country. They literally lie down in the river and crap. Giardia is the devil on that score.
Next up–breatharians.
Poo is everywhere!
Poo is everywhere!
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