Summary
An E. coli outbreak linked to bagged organic carrots from Grimmway Farms has infected 39 people across 18 states, with 15 hospitalized and one death reported.
The recalled carrots, sold under brands like Trader Joe’s, Wegmans, and 365, are no longer in stores, but the CDC urges consumers to check for and discard any remaining stock.
E. coli infections, which cause severe stomach cramps, bloody diarrhea, and vomiting, can be life-threatening for vulnerable groups.
Recent outbreaks have also been tied to onions, lettuce, and walnuts.
This type of stuff is only going to get worse in the next four years.
Absolutely. These companies need oversight.
States could create their own FDA when the federal government stop doing their job.
Could they though? From the looks of things the next Trump term is going to be Calvinball where only oligarchs get to make rules. If it cuts into the bottom line of some Trump crony, would it really be allowed?
The federal government isn’t omnipotent, they’d have to send federal agent to physically stop the state from enforcing their own laws. With all the mass deportation trumps planning, I doubt they have enough manpower.
Imagine if MAGAts are in control of the regulatory agencies.
Oh wait… don’t have to imagine
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Dang I just bought some onions.
It’s ok to eat them if you cook them. Maybe make yourself some delicious caramelized onions!
This is not entirely true. E. coli can produce heat-stable enterotoxins that will still make you sick even after cooking/killing the microbe. Probably best to toss or at least wash them before using.
Edit: assuming they’re from one of the listed brands and match the recall window.
Nope, try this one - https://www.greatbritishchefs.com/recipes/french-onion-soup-recipe
It’s divine
So the people who died from the carrots didn’t cook them?
Yes or at least they didn’t cook them well enough. E. Coli dies at temperatures over 70°C/160°F. .
So despite having heavy restrictions regarding taking foodstuffs on flights causing mass inconvenience, they don’t really do the simple work of sending random samples of packed stuff for lab testing? Meaning that buying stuff in a packet, while more expensive than buying from a street peddler in an unregulated country, is really not safer?
OkWait, you mean there are non-organic carrots out there? 🤔
The backing on writable CDs is considered organic, so are those edible?
No shit? That’s exactly what I referred to in another comment in this thread, organic foods are fertilized with literal shit.
Wonder why we get diseases in our organic foods?
Check out big brain over here
Motor oil is organic.
How is there even such a thing as ‘organic’ carrots if there isn’t also ‘non-organic’ carrots?
What the F is a non-organic fruit or vegetable?
Please explain…
Tell me more
No no, I asked you people. Where the hell are there non-organic plant foods? They’re all organic, by literal definition.
Or did anyone forget, ‘organic’ fruits and vegetables are fertilized with manure rather than synthetic chemicals…
Where the hell are there non-organic plant foods?
If you ask that in the supermarket, you’ll get a very different answer than in a chemistry classroom.
Organic (marketing) and organic (chemistry) are different concepts, so the answer to your question would depend on the context in which it is being asked. 🤷♂️
And organic food is fertilized with organic feces.
Wonder where the E. Coli comes from? 🤔
I’m going to take a minute to respond to the argument I think you’re trying to imply here, that organic food leads to e-coli outbreaks in humans.
While there is some validity to this, it’s an oversimplification. The vast majority of e-coli is not problematic. The stuff that’s actually a threat comes from sick animals. So when you have AFOs with tons of animals in close proximity, the manure tends to be more likely to be contaminated. And when that contaminated manure gets used as fertiliser, it makes contaminated vegetables.
This doesn’t necessarily only affect organic vegetables, btw, as the runoff from AFOs can also be a contaminant, so it can affect neighbouring farms as well, organic or otherwise. This is how you can get e-coli contaminated lettuce because it was washed with contaminated water.
Personally, the reason I’d buy organic produce would be a) generally better quality produce and b) avoiding glyphosate and PFAS in pesticides. I think that Monsanto has played out billions in settlements related to roundup speaks volumes.
That said, I’m not nearly crunchy enough to think that artificial fertilisers are problematic. Heck, I use them in my own garden. Stuff that kills stuff tends to be more dangerous than stuff that makes stuff grow, but ofc dosage is everything.
All that is to say, I’d posit that the real problem here is intensified animal agriculture, and corner cutting (both in fertiliser production and sourcing), not organic farming per se.
No shit.
And his real name was Samuel Clemens!
Yes, I’ve read some of the works of Mark Twain.
I’ve also helped on farms before, they literally use shit as fertilizer.
