Todays news seems to be full of salmonella in tomato stories.Mcdonalds and other fast food restaurants have pulled the tomato off of the menu although most supermarkets do not seem to be doing the same.
The problem with tomato salmonella seems to have been occurring for about two months now and seems to be found in about half of the US state.
I have questioned in the past why we have all of these outbreaks over the last couple of years and apparently the cause is government cutbacks at the FDA. The FDA is supposed to be watching the food supply by checking and testing farms and produce but through cutbacks this testing has been reduced over the last 20 years by up to 80%. With cuts that deep to testing it is no wonder that we are seeing so many problems with our food sources.
Actually one of the ladies on the news was just saying that a meat farm where salmonella is thriving has cows that poop and this can move through the to the neighbors tomato farm and then these tomatoes could have salmonella. this can not be washed off as it can leach into the tomato itself, that description was worth watching as was the reaction from her co-host.
We have moved so far from our traditional farming lifestyles that most people have no idea what it takes to create the foods that are on the store shelves so food issues can be a real problem to everyone but only a few people have control over these issues such as pesticides, growth hormones, steroids, and fertilizers that farmers use and no one knows about.
Grape Cherry and ‘On the Vine” Tomatoes are apparently fine. while Red, Round and Roma tomatoes are possibly infected with salmonella.
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