You're seeing the results of the numbers of people that don't pay attention to news and apparently don't have friends that pay attention to it either.

I could insert some terribly insensitive comments here about how it's mother nature's payback for eating raw veggies, but hey...

Seriously though, it's a sad situation and one which shouldn't be continuing, but you've seen the same news I have and apparently a bunch of people haven't been paying attention.

Personally I'm glad I'm not a vegetarian and that I over-cook just about all vegetables that I'm going to eat. I never much cared for raw veggies, especially raw greens (other than lettuce occassionally), and what few veggies I do eat I want *done* before eating them.

Yeah, maybe the whole ignorance is bliss thing isn't all it's cracked up to be.

It makes me sad that all my blessed leafy greens are off-limits. I miss my fresh baby spinach salad . . . thank goodness my spinach starts need about another week and they'll be ready to eat . . . yum.

On topic: negligent homicide sounds like a nice charge to be brought against these people . . .

Once again Mr. Frank Zappa said it best... ;~D

- It Can't Happen Here Lyrics

It can't happen here
It can't happen here
I'm telling you, my dear
That it can't happen here
Because I been checkin' it out, baby
I checked it out a couple a times, hmmmmmmmm

And I'm telling you
It can't happen here
Oh darling, it's important that you believe me
(bop bop bop bop)
That it can't happen here

Who could imagine that they would freak out somewhere in kansas...
Kansas kansas tototototodo
Kansas kansas tototototodo
Kansas kansas
Who could imagine that they would freak out in minnesota...
Mimimimimimimi minnesota, minnesota, minnesota
Who could imagine...

Who could imagine
That they would freak out in washington, d.c.
D.c. d.c. d.c. d.c. d.c.
It can't happen here
Ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba
It can't happen here
It can't happen here
Everybody's safe and it can't happen here
No freaks for us
It can't happen here
Everybody's clean and it can't happen here
No, no, it won't happen here
I'm telling you it can't
It won't happen here
(bop bop didi bop didi bop bop bop)
Plastic folks, you know
It won't happen here
You're safe, mama
You're safe, baby
You just cook a tv dinner
And you make it
(bop bop bop)
No no no no
Oh, we're gonna get a tv dinner and cook it up
Go get a tv dinner and cook it up
Cook it up
Oh, and it won't happen here
(no no no no no no no no no no no
Man you guys are really safe
Everything's cool).
Who could imagine
Who could imagine
That they would freak out in the suburbs
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool
I remember (tu-tu)
I remember (tu-tu)
They had a swimming pool.

And they thought it couldn't happen here
(duh duh duh duh duh)
They knew it couldn't happen here
They were so sure it couldn't happen here
But...

Suzie...
Yes yes yes--I've always felt that
Yes I agree man, it really makes it...yeah...
It's a real thing, man
And it really makes it
(makes it)

Suzie, you just got to town,
And we've been, we've been very interested
In your development,
Since you first took the shots.
Forget it!
Hmmmmmmmmm
(it can't happen here)
(can't happen here)
(can't happen here)

Does anyone know how the E. coli got in the spinach anyway? I thought E. coli was an intestinal bacteria. Which I now shudder to think how all that spinach became contaminated.

~Zoo

Does anyone know how the E. coli got in the spinach anyway? I thought E. coli was an intestinal bacteria. Which I now shudder to think how all that spinach became contaminated.

I don't know, but I do know that in Europe "human fertilizer" isn't a rare thing. I wonder if someone here in the states was sticking to the ways of "the old country" ;~D

You're seeing the results of the numbers of people that don't pay attention to news and apparently don't have friends that pay attention to it either.

Damn Conservatives and their ongoing war on the media! Now look at what they've done! Conservatives killed this baby!!!!!!

(Ahhh, so easy to spin the news and grind the axe.)

Does anyone know how the E. coli got in the spinach anyway? I thought E. coli was an intestinal bacteria. Which I now shudder to think how all that spinach became contaminated.

Fertilizer (the bovine variety will suffice) or tainted ground water, most likely.

I don't know, but I do know that in Europe "human fertilizer" isn't a rare thing. I wonder if someone here in the states was sticking to the ways of "the old country" ;~D

Treated human waste has actually been approved by the FDA for certain crops. (I don't think that includes crops for human consumption, but who knows what those wacky feds will do next.) We had a big controversy about it out here in Mohave County, AZ a while back.

Reply #4 Once again Mr. Frank Zappa said it best... ;~D

Could be.

Reply #5 Does anyone know how the E. coli got in the spinach anyway? I thought E. coli was an intestinal bacteria. Which I now shudder to think how all that spinach became contaminated. ~Zoo

They're still investigating that. I suspect someone was probably using liquified pig excrement for fertilizer which is not uncommon but not supposed to be used of this type of crop. But that's just a guess on my part and probably not the case.

Reply #6 Does anyone know how the E. coli got in the spinach anyway? I thought E. coli was an intestinal bacteria. Which I now shudder to think how all that spinach became contaminated. I don't know, but I do know that in Europe "human fertilizer" isn't a rare thing. I wonder if someone here in the states was sticking to the ways of "the old country" ;~D

Possibly, but somehow I doubt that one. Then again, at this point who knows?

Treated human waste has actually been approved by the FDA for certain crops.

Yes, but as you indicated not for human consumption, Even animal waste is not allowed for leafy, direct contact type crops such as spinach due to the risk of exactly this sort of contamination.

On the other side. Maybe the child was sick before it was publicized. The horrible thing is they wait until they see what is going to cost more and how many people get sick before it is brought to the attention.

Reply #12 On the other side. Maybe the child was sick before it was publicized. The horrible thing is they wait until they see what is going to cost more and how many people get sick before it is brought to the attention.

I honestly hadn't thought of that. Perhaps he had eaten the spinach prior to all of this hitting the news and it just took this long for it to get that bad. Very good point.

There have been no reported cases here in Va, but stores are pulling it and most people (there are exceptions) are tossing it. I love spinach, but not that much!

There have been no reported cases here in Va

Actually, there have been two reported cases in Virginia.

I was hoping that it was something along the lines of what Kelly was saying--that the child ate the contaminated spinach before anyone was made aware of it.

Regardless, my heart goes out to the parents.