>
> PS  Last night, my hubby and a friend of ours was asking me how 
> spinach and
>
>> onions are getting the ecoli.  I read something about that a while 
>> back, but
>> forgot exactly what the deal was.  If it's appropriate subject matter 
>> for
>> this list, could someone re-inform me???  Seems to me that the 
>> farmers were
>> using some kind of animal matter (in chemical form??) for 
>> pest-control, or
>> something like that.  ????? 
>
In the case of the spinach, it was not even directly used on the fields; 
runoff
from a feedlot was getting into the fields unintentionally.  The bad e 
coli is
ubiquitous in feedlot cattle; if they would switch the cattle to hay for the
last two weeks, the bad e coli would die out. 

So there is a GOOD solution: no more feedlots.
And an easier solution: take cattle off grain/soy for the last two weeks.
But they would rather irradiate the meat, and let the vegetables be
contaminated.


    Lynnet