re: Here we go again: Don&#39;t eat romaine lettuce

Posted by htran90

Member since Dec 2012

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Posted on 11/20/18 at 3:14 pm to Wayne Kenoff

Green = poison

I rest my case.

Posted by fishfighter

RIP

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Posted on 11/20/18 at 3:21 pm to OysterPoBoy

quote:
At least they have handy tips for handling diarrhea.

I see what you did there.

Posted by LSUBoo

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Posted on 11/20/18 at 3:29 pm to Wayne Kenoff

I had a salad with romaine lettuce for lunch yesterday. I had the shits this morning. I had another salad with romaine lettuce for lunch today. It has been a pleasure knowing most of you.

Posted by Steadyhands

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Posted on 11/20/18 at 3:40 pm to LSUBoo

I had some lettuce on a burger, probably iceburg though, and I've still been shitting all day. Wtf gives

Posted by MrLSU

Yellowstone, Val d'isere

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Posted on 11/20/18 at 3:43 pm to Steadyhands

Lettuce all think about this for a minute before we romaine eating salad.

Posted by Harry Caray

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Posted on 11/20/18 at 3:50 pm to Bourre

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I guess this romaines an issue

not proud of this laugh

Posted by MrLSU

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Posted on 11/20/18 at 3:56 pm to MrLSU

45,000 laborers work 6 days a week in the Yuma Valley on the California/Arizona border. Most of the workers are legal guest workers. This is going to devastate the lettuce industry and I'm sure the Arizona & California politiicans will scream the CDC put out this alert for political reasons.

Yuma only gets an average of three inches of rain a year -- and lettuce requires a lot more water than that to grow. So Yuma's farmers get almost all their water from the Colorado River, LINK

Posted by MrLSU

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Posted on 11/20/18 at 4:04 pm to MrLSU

This spring's large E. coli outbreak caused by tainted romaine lettuce may have been caused by a large industrial farm.

That's according to a new Food and Drug Administration hypothesis.

A concentrated animal feeding operation, or CAFO, is near a canal whose water came in contact with the affected romaine lettuce from the Yuma, Arizona, growing region, the FDA said. The water may have been used for irrigation, and sample testing revealed in June that it was tainted with E. coli O157:H7 that had the same genetic fingerprint as the outbreak strain.

This was the largest multi-state E. coli outbreak in the U.S. in a dozen years. The contaminated lettuce sickened 210 people in 36 states and killed five. Ninety-six victims landed in the hospital, 27 of whom developed kidney failure.

The CAFO can hold in excess of 100,000 head of cattle at any one time, and the FDA traceback information showed a clustering of romaine lettuce farms nearby," the federal government said Monday. "Our experts continue to work on examining potential links between the CAFO, adjacent water and geologic and other factors that may explain the contamination and its relationship to the outbreak."

Posted by jbgleason

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Posted on 11/20/18 at 4:11 pm to MrLSU

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The CAFO can hold in excess of 100,000 head of cattle at any one time, and the FDA traceback information showed a clustering of romaine lettuce farms nearby," the federal government said Monday. "Our experts continue to work on examining potential links between the CAFO, adjacent water and geologic and other factors that may explain the contamination and its relationship to the outbreak."

Let me save the government a couple of million dollars that they are about to spend on studies.

Cows poop. Lots of cows poop a lot. Lots of cows near a river equals poop in the water.

Lettuce farms use lots of water. Rivers have lots of water. Lettuce farms use river water on their lettuce.

Poop water upstream of a lettuce farm equals poop water on lettuce.

People who eat lettuce covered in poop water get sick.

CASE SOLVED!!!