is it safe to eat the vegetables grown in our backyard
2006-09-16 13:47:18 · 11 answers · asked by . 3 in Food & Drink ➔ Vegetarian & Vegan
no..it happened at a holding facility or something that had to do with thte transportation to the stores...your garden is fine.
2006-09-16 13:48:33 · answer #1 · answered by Skipper1974 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Not unless someone is using your vegetable garden as a shitter.
Seriously though, anything you grow is 100% safer for you than anything you buy at the store. Either buy from a local farmer market or grow your own and you can be pretty assured that this won't affect you. It's when we mass harvest and process foods that these sorts of bugs get a foot in the door. This could have been from contaminated water used in the process or some other cross contamination that happened during sorting or packaging. I am sure they will find this to have been a contamination at a single processing plant or a single farm/producer.
Simple and sound advice is to be sure and wash all produce you buy, remember that it sits there and grows in large fields. If a bug is spotted on one edge of the field, the whole thing gets sprayed for that bug. If one invasive weed shows up on another edge.. the whole field gets sprayed again. Of course you also have fertilizer and other *cides introduced to these plants/veggies/fruit.
The money to be made is in the quantity of the harvest. How these big agribusinesses get a nice *looking* and abundant product to market is largely unregulated.
2006-09-16 20:56:39 · answer #2 · answered by hgheartland 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
yes,it is safe to eat your vegetables. but wash them thoroughly first. one of the worst ecoli outbreaks was at a golden corral from the watermelon...due to workers not practicing proper food sanitation. wash the veggies, wash your hands, munch out.
2006-09-17 01:39:01 · answer #3 · answered by rainydaydreamr 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You don't need to worry unless you are using manure as fertilizer. The E-Coli gets into the veggies through contaminated animal manure.
2006-09-16 20:49:56 · answer #4 · answered by wizibuff 4 · 4⤊ 1⤋
You really have nothing to worry about. However, be careful when handling your vegetables. Take special care to clean them and make sure your hands are clean whenever you prepare fresh vegetables.
2006-09-16 20:52:50 · answer #5 · answered by tau.reanb 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Yes, your garden stuff is safe as long as you don't use manure as a fertilizer.
2006-09-16 23:03:47 · answer #6 · answered by Nightlight 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Not unless you are putting infected cow manure on them as a fertilizer.
2006-09-16 20:55:05 · answer #7 · answered by **KELLEY** 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I'm eating mine, the bacteria has to come in contact with the food, is there a way your garden can get contaminated by tainted food? I doubt it.
2006-09-16 20:50:18 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
i highly highly doubt there's any ecoli in your home-grown spinach :) don't worry!!
2006-09-16 20:55:16 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
are you kidding me? if it wasn't safe, the human population would not have made it very long, don't you think?
2006-09-16 20:55:40 · answer #10 · answered by Gabrielle 6 · 0⤊ 2⤋