Are rotten tomatoes the future?
Discuss round one of this week's Dust-Up.
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Quick way to help fix this...lets stop the waste of farm subsidies and take that money to do more inspections...it's interesting how capitalist love free markets only when it benefits them but cry foul when they lose money because of that same free market...then they ask for subsidies and tariffs to help keep them proped up...lets subsidiez the FDA so they can inspect everything and let the free market take it's course...I'm sure the billions given to agribusiness if given to the FDA would be more than enough to do the job of inspecting...
curtisthecurtis @ 9:32 AM PDT, Jun 18, 2008
Part of the present problem is that it is very likely that this was a single contamination event and checking batches of tomatoes, even from the responsible farm, aren't going to show anything. The only chance to identify the source would be if some of the original tomatoes just happened to be checked.
daniel miller @ 7:49 PM PDT, Jun 17, 2008
What this and the spinach episode illustrated is the conflict between using manure as an organic fertilizer vs. "chemical" fertilizers. Theoretically organic food is more likely to be contaminated than conventional food, especially if it is also processed in large batches as the spinach was. It makes little sense to fence some fields to exclude animals while using manure as a soil builder and fertilizer.
daniel miller @ 7:49 PM PDT, Jun 17, 2008
As of 2003 the average American consumed 17 pounds of fresh tomatoes per year, which works out roughly to one per week per person, give or take. With a population of 300,000,000 (est), that would be roughly 1,500,000,000 opportunities to ingest a bad tomato (population multiplied by 5 weeks from first case to announcement) take that number and divide by reported instances (150) and the odds of being ill is about one in a million. Is this something to worry about? Life is not risk free.
Jon @ 7:05 PM PDT, Jun 17, 2008
Providing food, performing work, raising the young, and producing products and services give rise to cultures, languages, political, and economic systems that are tightly integrated with their territory, environment and its ecosystems. A country is an integrated system that should be optimized to their peoples needs. According to systems theory, an overemphasis on one element like the economy (globalization) could create a problem. Because of NAFTA, instead of growing tomatoes, those Mexican farmers should have been be growing their staple, corn. Now what happens to those tomato farmers when they cant sell tomatoes, they migrate?
Ransome @ 8:25 AM PDT, Jun 17, 2008
while food maybe safer today, it evidently isn't save enough. A better inspection program needs to be implemented. After, this is a matter of life and death.
dw @ 6:57 AM PDT, Jun 17, 2008
This is just a game people, wake up.
greg m @ 5:06 PM PDT, Jun 16, 2008
We should be producing our own food and beverages in this country. We should be importing everything else from other countries but not Food.
Wake up people @ 2:59 PM PDT, Jun 16, 2008