E-coli in prepackaged salads!

[MotherOfGizmo]

Re: E-coli in prepackaged salads!

Sorry, they're called Breathatarians

Be kind to vegetables.
Don't eat them.
Boulder Vegetable Rights Association


Postings from boulder.general




BE KIND TO VEGETABLES!!! DON'T EAT THEM!!!

On Tuesday December 20th 1994 the Boulder Vegetable
Rights Association held its organizational meeting. Topics
of discussion included the need to increase public awareness
that vegetables are living beings and that hurting them
is cruel. One member noted that those who kill vegetables
for food often take the flowers or seeds, as in the case
of broccoli, so that thousands of young vegetable beings
perish at the hand of an uncaring diner.

Here in Boulder, of all places, where people are opening
their minds to new ways to live in harmony with the Earth
and all of her forms of life, people should stand up for
the rights of our friends in the vegetable garden.

Millions of acres of land are converted from natural
lands to farmlands, killing the native plants, adding carcinogenic
pesticides and chemical fertilizers to the environment,
and then used to grow plants to be slaughtered for grocery
stores.

Few people have witnessed the tomatoes being pulled
off of their vines, or the lettuce getting their heads chopped
off.

The Boulder Vegetable Rights Association plans to
educate the public with videos showing the inhumane practices
of the vegetable industry. We plan to do public speaking
and distribute information to make as many people as possible
aware of the companies and businesses that promote the killing
of defenseless plants.

Do your part today! Tell people at your workplace,
school or public place that they should be aware of the
lives of vegetables, that they should help prevent the pain
and suffering caused to vegetables by big businesses trying
to reap big profits, that they should examine their own
lifestyle to try to reduce the use of products that require
the killing of vegetables.

THANK YOU!!!
The Vegetable Rights Association of Boulder

BE KIND TO VEGETABLES!!! DON'T EAT THEM!!!

http://www.bvra.org/vegall.txt

[boonie stomper]

Re: E-coli in prepackaged salads!

Back up here... let's try to understand what has happened, that bad E. Coli ever ended up in the bagged salad in the first place. Snopes discusses the whole subject here: http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/salad.asp

Apparently there are so many opportunities for fresh produce to get contaminated with the E. Coli, all one can do is guess how it got in the Dole Salad. The best thing is to assume it is on all fresh produce and take steps to eliminate or minimize the contamination. More details on that here: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12536902/ (if you make it to page 2 the field workers come into the story...)

I'll bet it just floated onto the lettuce out of the air, MOG!