Drive by a field where workers harvesting crops. Do you see any restrooms with running water? NO!
Bacteria in loose stool of infected persons can be passed from one person to another if hygiene or hand washing habits are inadequate. www.cdc.gov
Food obtained from Mexican homes showed generally higher counts of coliforms and fecal coliforms than those obtained from commercial sources in Mexico and Houston. The foods in Mexico, both from homes and commercial sources, commonly contained Escherichia coli and occasionally enterotoxigenic E. coli. Foods in Houston were not contaminated with E. coli or enterotoxigenic E. coli. Salmonella (17 isolates), Shigella (4 isolates), and Aeromonas hydrophila (1 isolate) were found only in the foods obtained from Mexican homes. http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=239381
The health of the citizens of the USA should not be endangered due to political correctness!
2006-12-26 14:33:08 · 33 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
E. coli O157:H7 is being found in lettuce, spinach, green onions, etc. What is the common denominator amoung all these products and the distribution?
According to DHS, all the industries involved (growers, havesters, packagers, fast food stores) are all Tier I industries for hiring illegal aliens.
What other factor is present in all the outbreaks around the country? NONE!
E Coli is clearly present in Mexican homes and businesses. Maybe the illegals all get treatment before sneaking into the USA. And maybe they wait all day (up to 10 hours) before going to the bathroom.
What is the most likely cause of E Coli?
2006-12-26 14:52:40 · update #1
I'm with you. That was my very first position on the matter. And I still believe it. BTW, when I was a young girl, I myself worked in the fields. The unsanitary conditions are appalling.
Edit: I might also add that yes, sometimes people didn't want to stop their work to find a "potty".
2006-12-26 14:36:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 4⤋
NO! because of the fact the E-coli outbreak got here from BOVINE FECAL remember. It became leaking into irrigation water... They related the two the spinnach and lettuce to the Salinas Valley. Thats a ludicrous accusation to place forth... as though anybody who isnt unlawful washes thier palms in the 1st place. as properly youre dumb in case you do no longer wash your vegatables till now you consume them in any case because of the fact of insecticides on my own! basically because of the fact nutrients is prepackaged would not advise you do no longer could wash IT! they have been urging anybody to bathe thier nutrients because of the fact the 60s!! E-coli isn't very resiliant. a splash chorine will shelter it, its everywhere! i don't be attentive to very many people who can cope with to pay for to pay $10 money a head for lettuce "no longer picked via illegals" Oh yeah and one greater element! E-COLI isn't A ailment! I CANT BELEIVE how thoroughly IGNORANT some human beings are!! E-COLI is a micro organism present day in EVERYONES physique!!! Its surely chanced on in the bodies of ALL MAMALS!!!!!!!!! rascist PIGS.
2016-10-28 10:46:40 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes you can blame the field workers legal and illegal but the blame go's along way the farmer( Rancher) that grow the food and the Contractor that hires the people, and the Government for not enforcing the laws. For them to have porta potties with water and soap for them to wash their hands. They have to eat too. Sometimes we would hit a crew out in the fields and they would not have a porta pottie. I'm not por illegal or pro amnesty. I would see this when I was working in the Border Patrol. There is a lot of blame to go around.
2006-12-26 15:05:25 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Since when is the employer's failure to provide adequate sanitation facilities the fault of the underpaid illegal workers?
How can you make the assumption that the personal hygiene of the workers now is below standards, based on an article released in August of 1983?
Find an article that addresses overall sanitary conditions on any farm in the world. By default, one is likely to find some bacteria because of the work performed on the farm.
Add to that the lack of electricity and hot water in Mexico.
The perception that other races are "dirty" or "unhealthy" is usually called racism or bigotry.
If you truly believe you have discovered the problem with the US food processing/delivery system in the US, then you should be calling for the companies that hire these workers to provide for the proper sanitation of their work force.
Otherwise this article is meaningless, as are your assumptions.
2006-12-26 14:54:48 · answer #4 · answered by Jack C 3 · 5⤊ 1⤋
I'm not gonna say you're wrong but don't try to make everybody believe that Americans are clean. Just pick up a store and go check the bathroom.
According to the first part of your question, every field should have a restroom with running water, right? And what else? A McDonalds? Grow up!
Blame the processing plants instead. They cut down costs in order to make more money and as a result they end up infecting people.
2006-12-26 14:46:25 · answer #5 · answered by Mr Bean 5 · 7⤊ 2⤋
They may also be investigating the possibility that the contamination was a practice run by mid-east terrorists. Imagine that a big gaping hole in the nation's border security allowing the food supply to be hit. Who would have thought.
It is possible. Remember the anthrax in Washington DC?
2006-12-26 15:02:38 · answer #6 · answered by vaughndhume 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Two factors--lack of proper sanitary standards and the feces left behind from the wild animal (google wild pigs) population. As long as our produce is manufactured within the country--our newest legislators can bring forth the most practical resolutions. Maintaining the integrity of the EPA should also be on the agenda.
2006-12-26 15:20:32 · answer #7 · answered by scottyurb 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
In the recent spinach case, the E. coli was INSIDE the plant. E. coli is a faculatative anaerobe, meaning it requires little oxygen to grow. Therefore, it can infiltrate the root system and grow inside the network of the plant were oxygen availablity is poor. Handwashing, and washing the plant for that matter, would have no reductive effect on the amount of E. coli IN the plant. Now you could argue that the workers were shittin' in the field. That's plausible.
2006-12-26 14:40:33 · answer #8 · answered by poorsias 4 · 7⤊ 3⤋
We drove out to a squash field (OK......yep we were pumpkin lookin)_a few weekends ago. I wanted to get some great winter produce and let my daughter enjoy Nature.
When we arrived we, were not allowed to pick any produce. Apparently unruly teenagers had knocked over several "porta potties" and they were going to BURN the field it happened in.
Why ask a question like this? It begs haters to answer.
2006-12-26 14:46:01 · answer #9 · answered by sqwirlsgirl 5 · 5⤊ 2⤋
Never thought of it that way. I know they have porta potties or are supposed to in the fields but I doubt enough. Greed by the large corps. I suppose. I am totally against illegal immigrants but these latest Taco Bell incidents and others should be a wake up call.
2006-12-26 14:36:52 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 7⤊ 4⤋