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> PS Last night, my hubby and a friend of ours was asking me how
> spinach and
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>> 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. ?????
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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
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