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CDC: Do Not Eat Any Romaine Lettuce Until Further Notice (wired.com)
Earlier this week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention put out an unusually strong statement telling Americans to toss any romaine lettuce in any form: whole, chopped, pre-bagged into Caesar salads, combined into spring mix, and so on. The warning covered not just homes but retailers and restaurants, and came with a recommendation to empty any fridge where romaine has been stored, and wash it out with soap and warm water. From a report: The CDC said it was making the recommendation to not eat, serve or sell any romaine lettuce because 32 people in 11 states, plus 18 people in Ontario and Quebec, have been made ill by E. coli O157:H7, which causes very serious illness because it produces a toxin that destroys cells lining the intestines and kidneys. The patients are all infected with the same strain, based on genetic fingerprinting, and the only thing they have in common is that they all ate romaine.
But, the CDC said, "no common grower, supplier, distributor, or brand of romaine lettuce has been identified." The agency isn't usually so sweeping in its statements, but with a holiday coming -- one that's centered around eating and that takes people offline into the real world of airports and cars and dinner tables -- it warned against all romaine until the threat can be better defined. The Food and Drug Administration, which does have the power to compel foods to be recalled, is investigating, along with health departments in the 11 states where people have gotten sick.
But, the CDC said, "no common grower, supplier, distributor, or brand of romaine lettuce has been identified." The agency isn't usually so sweeping in its statements, but with a holiday coming -- one that's centered around eating and that takes people offline into the real world of airports and cars and dinner tables -- it warned against all romaine until the threat can be better defined. The Food and Drug Administration, which does have the power to compel foods to be recalled, is investigating, along with health departments in the 11 states where people have gotten sick.
Because in developed countries the food is picked, packed and shipped by people who aren't paid enough to care about sanitation.
Wrong. Food safety in Europe is proactive, food safety in the US is reactive. That's why you see so much more food poising whether it's through lettuce, chicken, eggs etc in the US... than in Europe. We learned from the mad cow disease a couple of decades ago. Americans obviously haven't. I suppose it has to do with muhhhhhh big government bad, muuuuuuuh freedom loving rednecks. The usual american bullshit. Well sooner or later you do pay the price.
It's fake news. And to all those saying the CDC is the source, not CNN/MSNBC, can you say "Deep state"? When Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and Nancy Pelosi are all saying you shouldn't eat lettuce, then you know there has to be a reason. What's more likely? That lettuce has some kind of deadly bacteria on it that ONLY LIEBRALS care about, or that a Soros funded conspiracy is trying to prevent decent hardworking Real Americans from having lettuce because of some benefit ONLY THEY KNOW ABOUT? Is it a coincidence that HOLLYWOOD LIBERAL ELITE ACTRESSES are often PHOTOGRAPHED eating lettuce?
All decent God-fearing conservatives should be eating lettuce, and should be getting them from their supermarkets before the supermarkets can remove this secret source of liberal power from their shelves. If the LIEberalsm BLM, and Antifar are going to say we shouldn't do it, then we should own them by eating as much lettuce as possible.
It's the only way.
You are not alone. This is not normal. None of this is normal.