re: So Mexican poop lettuce is ravaging the country with diarrhea?

Lettuce is nothing more than water in solid form. I’ll have no problem avoiding it for a while.

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That’s the part I’m curious about too. These get traceback investigations. Until they identify a common farm, processor, or supplier it’s hard to know whether the contamination happened in the field, irrigation water, packaging, or somewhere else in the chain. I’m interested to see where they eventually trace it.

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I seriously doubt this is happening in the field. This is happening at a processing plant and that’s why you’re seeing it hit specific states and Taco Bell. Out here in Cali there hasn’t been an uptick in cyclosporia. We’re growing the overwhelming majority of product right now. It’s being harvested here and sent to regional facilities for processing to service local markets. At these facilities you’ll have blades that are used to slice and dice the greens and those can come in contact with a piece that has cyclosporia on it and it then it starts to spread from that blade. The surface area that the greens are laid upon could become a problem, the water used to rinse and so on. Now all of those are routinely changed out and or tested for various pathogens, I don’t recall if cyclosporia is one of them. But this isn’t happening at the field level. We’d be seeing it here if it was. There are a lot of measures taken from the field level on up to ensure the produce… but shite happens and well this is one of those times we’re dealing with it. One other thing, most cases aren’t officially solved. So don’t get your hopes up.

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Leafy greens cause stomach problems regardless.

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I have a 24 x 16 vegetable garden. For whatever reason, my tomatoes did not start to ripen in bulk until last week, and now I am inundated with them.

I've been eating tomatoes and peppers with every meal, and taking some of the best shits ever. It is like a cleanse.

Mexican Poop Lettuce.

Can't find the exact one but found more info about them and this one


In the 1940s, the Walt Disney Studios produced a series of educational films on sanitation and hygiene promotion for developing countries. The films, in the Health for the Americas series, were aimed at Latin America. They were commissioned by the now defunct Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (CIAA), which was later renamed Office of Inter-American Affairs (OIAA).


The U.S. State Department had sent Walt Disney and a group of animators to South America in 1941 as part of its Good Neighbor policy, and guaranteed financing for the resulting movie, Saludos Amigos. Disney’s popularity was seen to bolster US communication efforts to counter the influence of Nazi Germany, which had established close ties with several Latin American governments.

Several of the films in the Health for the Americas series feature Careless Charlie and his family to portray poor hygienic behaviour as in Cleanliness Brings Health







More of the films here

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heads of lettuce that should be rinsed thoroughly. Outer layers should be discarded,

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This is what I’ve always done along with pulling the stem/center out. Because I always stick my fingers in around it slowly while chanting Kali Ma! and hold it up when I rip it out. My wife looks at me like I’m retarded but I find it funny