Comments on: Nothing To See, Move Along

By: Bryan

Bryan — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:21:00 +0000

I don’t know about other parts of Mexico, but there isn’t any real evidence of spreading anything on the fields in Baja. They tend to go with whatever gets deposited naturally or, as the result of septic tank drain fields.

Now the irrigation water in the areas where some sewage systems exist would almost assuredly contain human waste, as most sewage plants dump into the same water sources used for irrigation.

They are making most of the same mistakes we made in this country, but not quite as quickly.

By: Anntichrist S. Coulter

Anntichrist S. Coulter — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 23:21:03 +0000

Yeah, but I’m still wondering if the rumor is true that they use human waste as “fertilizer.”

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 08:08:44 +0000

Human waste doesn’t contain the type of E. Coli that contaminate the spinach. That variety is found in grain fed beef cattle. It was run-off from an upstream beef factory farm that polluted the irrigation water. We all have E. Coli in our digestive systems, it helps to break down the food. If you take strong antibiotics it gets wiped out and you have stomach problems until it re-appears.

All that was necessary was to allow the cattle to graze, and the dangerous variety of E. Coli is destroyed in the stomachs of the cattle. In the factory farm environment there is no grazing, so the problem crops up repeatedly.

By: Anntichrist S. Coulter

Anntichrist S. Coulter — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 04:47:13 +0000

So, somebody debunk this for me, ’cause I’ve heard it for many a moon, from multiple sources: Much like the e-coli outbreak with the bagged fresh spinach, I’ve always heard that Mexican farmers use water/fertilizer that features human feces as part of the “nutrients”.

Is there a Snopes category for this?

And if they weren’t “purposefully” fertilizing the spinach with human waste, then how in the hell did it get to the spinach?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 16:31:09 +0000

I never had a problem with anything from Mexico when I was living in San Diego. We used to have informal gatherings at one of the computer wholesalers that amounted to potlucks with half the food coming from Mexico. Either you can deal with chilis or you can’t. If you can’t, your digestive tract is going to react. The Mexicans can’t afford to use all of the industrial garbage that the big operations use, so they are not apt to be as chemically toxic.

I couldn’t even begin to guess how you would check on the Chinese products. Food recalls shouldn’t be secret, they should be broadcast.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:08:04 +0000

Shades of Cat's in the Kitchen! Now the question for me is this: do I throw out the cans of Chinese wheat gluten I just bought (two of seitan bits; one of veggie "Peking Duck"), or do I throw 'em in the stir-fry and eat 'em? You know, I eat a whole lot of products made in Mexico. They make the best cheap salsa (of a dozen varieties at least, and I don't just mean different brands), tortilla chips, pickled jalapeños and red hot sauce in the world, and those are staples in my household. And whatever the popular "wisdom" may be, Mexico is a civilized country with respectable standards for the food it exports to the U.S. Why do Mexican products have the undeserved reputation for inducing intestinal illnesses, while China gets away with sending us all this stuff?

By: Bryan

Bryan — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 05:15:41 +0000

That crap went into Hill’s Science Diet which is not available at Mal-Wart. I worked in a canning factory – the major difference between store brands and “national” brands is the label.

The stuff for Neiman Marcus is made next door to the stuff made for K-Mart.

They are paying a lot of money for the same crap unless they are buying fresh and local.

By: Anntichrist S. Coulter

Anntichrist S. Coulter — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 04:17:15 +0000

And to think… we thought that Soylent Green was something to worry about… Who knows, the way that things are going and those secret Halliburton “prisons” being built all over the country, we could wind-up in the chow line… on the plates.

Okay, I kid. A bit.

But face it, we don’t count. We’re not billionaires, we don’t own oil companies, we don’t run this shit.

We die, we disappear, we don’t matter.

We trust the FDA to protect our food, and they in turn take their kickbacks to look the other way while we are poisoned. After all, THEY don’t have to buy the cheap shit at Wally World, now do they.