Re: Californian farmers committing agricultural suicide
- From: coonskin@xxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: 08 Dec 2006 18:10:39 GMT
"Smile? Hogs = red meat? Are you sure of that."
Sure, "pork, the other white meat", from the various pork packing
industry marketing groups.
"And I know what caused the contamination. That is what I meant by
cleaning up their operations. Keeping domesticated animals away from
their fields. Proper fencing and adequate distances between the animal
enclosures and the growing plants.
It was wild pigs, please read carefully. They were huge truck garden
farmers with no animal production. However some miles away are animal
yards which is suspected the ultimate source of the bacteria.
"And e. coli contaminated meat is not a problem because the meat I eat
has all its exposed surface cooked to a temperature that will kill any
e. coli contamination. Fresh produce, such as onions, and especially
green onions, are more often a concern because much of it is eaten raw
or minimally cooked."
Don't be so sure, for example most infections from meat are not from
consuming the flesh directly but from transfer of the bacteria to other
surfaces when uncooked. I haven't looked into it but think it
reasonable that as a public health issue the latter source is the cause
of most such infections. Health inspectors of restaurants look very
carefully at this source of infections and not the meat itself and much
time is given to educating staff how to avoid it. In any case, the
bacteria is found in nature in the gut of animals as the ultimate
source, including human guts.
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