Guest guest Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 For all you salad eaters...pass this along... Did you watch Dateline on Sunday evening? They did a documentary on cut-up lettuce and spinach in plastic bags. They took us through thewhole process and talked about Ecoli now that is showing up in the salad mix in bags. They don't know yet how the Ecoli got in, but they doknow deaths and serious sicknesses are occurring in many states. One woman told about how her child was near death from the lettuce and wassick for a long time. They warned us not to buy any until they find out from investigation what is causing this. The Dole Company has recalledtheir bags. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12536902/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 Well, that's not good! Thanks for letting us know Lynda! Nancy Parlette HEALTHY LIVING STRATEGIES Natural Health Counselor Nutrition Educator ENERGIZING YOU FOR LIVING! (410) 531-2410 http://www.healthylivingstrategies.net/ On Behalf Of Namaska7Sent: Monday, June 19, 2006 11:47 AM ; VegSoul ; 12StepstoRawFood@; BVSGA Subject: Do Not Eat This Salad For all you salad eaters...pass this along... Did you watch Dateline on Sunday evening? They did a documentary on cut-up lettuce and spinach in plastic bags. They took us through thewhole process and talked about Ecoli now that is showing up in the salad mix in bags. They don't know yet how the Ecoli got in, but they doknow deaths and serious sicknesses are occurring in many states. One woman told about how her child was near death from the lettuce and wassick for a long time. They warned us not to buy any until they find out from investigation what is causing this. The Dole Company has recalledtheir bags. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12536902/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted June 19, 2006 Report Share Posted June 19, 2006 Thanks, Lynda. Not surprisingly, the MSNBC author of your linked article, Lea Thompson and the people she interviewed for her report said nothing about the glaring distinction in quality between conventionally vs. organically grown salad greens. I have heard many times before of people contracting e. coli from eating greens in the past, including vegans, though I've never heard of it occurring in a vegan restaurant. The first vegan friend I ever met 12 years ago told me about another vegan friend of hers who went out to dinner with her parents one night at a standard carnivorous restaurant. She only ordered a salad and soon afterward developed e. coli, becoming horribly sick to her stomach, later learning that the vegetables in her salad were cut on the same cutting board as the flesh. This is purely an invitation for infectious microbes that generally only come from slaughtered animals' body parts. I've never heard of any instance in which someone eating organically grown vegetables (as a vegan) or eating a meal in a vegan restaurant ever contracted any of these deadly microbes that we know as laypeople only come from dead animals. Despite John Stossel's report a few years ago on "20/20" that laboratory tests of alfalfa sprouts were infected with salmonella, a wise skeptic wouldn't even take his report with a grain of salt, knowing that salmonella likewise only comes from animals. The alfalfa sprouts to which he referred must not have been organically grown, and must have been directly exposed to soil infected by confined animals' manure. Stossel later apologized on the air in a subsequent "20/20" broadcast for misleading his viewers, though the mental impact of such a disorted and fabricated report would be nearly irreparable for anyone conditioned to believe they may as well continue eating dead animals since sprouts supposedly expose them to the same microbes anyway. Lastly, Walmart's plan to sell allegedly organic produce will only add to this problem, knowing much of it will come from "organic feedlots," which mean essentially prisons where the bovines and other traditional hostages of factory farming will eat an unnatural diet of "organically grown" grains but still be confined to the same maximum-security prisons nonetheless. This will minimize Walmart's input cost to make organic farming the modern equivalent of an assembly line. The 3 lessons to be learned here to the best of one's ability: Buy only organically grown vegetables, particularly greens, known to have the heaviest pesticide residues among any vegetables. Avoid eating in any restaurant that's not certifiably vegan. Buy produce (as much as possible) only from respectable businesses that traditionally sell mostly or entirely organically grown produce (and as little if any flesh as possible). This clearly excludes businesses such as Giant, Whole Foods, Walmart, Superfresh, Dan's, Shoprite, Pathmark, Key Food, Safeway and the like. Instead, businesses such as My Organic Market, Roots and like-minded local companies that go out of their way to sell organic produce and cater to their customers' needs deserve our collective support. Namaste, David The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than blacks were made for whites or women for men." --Alice Walker, Forward to "The Dreaded Comparison" by Marjorie Spiegel"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country."--Pres. Theodore Roosevelt, 1908 Namaska7To: ; VegSoul ; 12StepstoRawFood@; BVSGA Sent: Mon, 19 Jun 2006 11:46:58 EDT Do Not Eat This Salad For all you salad eaters...pass this along... [image removed] Did you watch Dateline on Sunday evening? They did a documentary on cut-up lettuce and spinach in plastic bags. They took us through thewhole process and talked about Ecoli now that is showing up in the salad mix in bags. They don't know yet how the Ecoli got in, but they doknow deaths and serious sicknesses are occurring in many states. One woman told about how her child was near death from the lettuce and wassick for a long time. They warned us not to buy any until they find out from investigation what is causing this. The Dole Company has recalledtheir bags. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/12536902/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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