Taylor Fresh Foods, parent company of Taylor Farms, is voluntarily recalling some products that include jalapenos because of worries about a possible salmonella contamination.
Any veg that is harvested is done so by humans. One things human need to do is shit during the day. One thing farmers hate is installing any kind of plumbing in the fields so they bring portable toilets on trailers. Sometimes the toilets are broken or full and someone needs to shit real bad so they shit on the edge of the field where no one is looking. The poop is covered by dirt and tracked on shoes through the rows of veg.
This is how human waste gets on vegetables. Farmers don’t have the right facilities to handle humans and waste ends up on the food.
NASA puts a lot of effort into waste management. Surprisingly, even the people working for the space assholes like Elon Musk have better business management capability than Megafarm management.
It’s a common problem on farms which don’t provide adequate bathroom facilities for their laborers and/or don’t allow a reasonable amount of time to use those facilities. Or to put it a different way: if your boss screams at you for being lazy and threatens your job every time you leave the field to use the toilet, you tend to just start shitting in the field.
Salmonella being a common problem when harvesting jalapeños?
Any veg that is harvested is done so by humans. One things human need to do is shit during the day. One thing farmers hate is installing any kind of plumbing in the fields so they bring portable toilets on trailers. Sometimes the toilets are broken or full and someone needs to shit real bad so they shit on the edge of the field where no one is looking. The poop is covered by dirt and tracked on shoes through the rows of veg.
This is how human waste gets on vegetables. Farmers don’t have the right facilities to handle humans and waste ends up on the food.
Also spraying cow shit or having cow shit near the body of water used to water crops.
Oh but we humans are totally building a Mars colony, though. Just as soon as we figure out how to stop pooping on our food.
Hey now, pooping on the food was what saved Mark Watney’s life.
NASA puts a lot of effort into waste management. Surprisingly, even the people working for the space assholes like Elon Musk have better business management capability than Megafarm management.
Bleh.
We really hate ourselves as a species.
It’s a common problem on farms which don’t provide adequate bathroom facilities for their laborers and/or don’t allow a reasonable amount of time to use those facilities. Or to put it a different way: if your boss screams at you for being lazy and threatens your job every time you leave the field to use the toilet, you tend to just start shitting in the field.
probably not handwashing.