At least 68 people, including 18 that needed to be treated at hospitals, have fallen ill across 19 states in a salmonella outbreak that may be linked to cucumbers, the CDC said on Friday.
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Ever wondered why so many fresh vegetables are dangerous to eat? It is because the US mostly imports these vegetables. Our government had made the decision decades ago to mostly support corn and soybean farmers at the expense of smaller farms who grow fruits and vegetables.
theres a lot of it now. both parties are under the thumb of big business and until we can change that we're doomed to face this no matter what party is in charge.
“The agency advised consumers to look for a sticker that shows ’SunFed Mexico’ as the place where the cucumbers were grown and […] any cucumbers bought between Oct. 12 and Nov. 26 if they do not know where they were grown.”
Don't worry, when Musk gets in & dismantles all regulations then no regulations can be broken & so everything will be perfectly ok. It's the Trumpian version of not testing for COVID which means there's no COVID infection
Can’t wait for the trailer park crowd of white folks to get thier jobs back in the vegetable fields so we won’t have these problems any more. And the black folks can get thier jobs back too - I need 100 acres of trees planted. Glad to know I’ll have some young unemployed urban “blacks” available.
Thank you for sharing. My daughter eats Cucumbers every day. I'm gonna go check which brand is in my fridge right now. I just bought them at the store.
Not to be an annoying vegetarian, but these outbreaks are almost always due to our national addiction to cheap meat. Feels like they don't mention that prominently in these articles ever, they're just like, "don't eat spinach it's poison."
Thank you for highlighting this. We think of CDC and their crucial work during the pandemic, which became controversial only via Trump's lies. This is the kind of linkage between food safety and public health they do everyday; it needs to continue despite the lies by RFK jr
Oh, I love it. The 1% is trying to kill us after stealing the election and American dream because money has made them so fulfilled. Bless their hearts, if they actually had one.
Clearly the ‘organic fertilizer’ idea is a very bad one. Salmonella does not occur naturally in cukes - the rush to use manure to make food ‘organic’ is blowing up in some faces.
Great idea, but in this case it's not just on the surface. it's *in* the cucumbers because they were grown in contaminated soil/watered with contaminated water. Toss them. And wash anything they came into contact with. But to be safe, TOSS THEM.
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