Thread: Don't Drink The Water: Illegals defecating on American food

I just watched it. The spinach outbreak was NOTHING to JOKE ABOUT!

104 Hospitalized and 3 deaths. 2 elderly women and a 2 YEAR OLD!





http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~dms/spinacqa.html
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How many confirmed illnesses and deaths have been reported related to the E. coli O157:H7 in spinach outbreak?
To date, 204 cases of illness due to E. coli O157:H7 infection have been reported to the CDC including 31 cases involving a type of kidney failure called Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome (HUS), 104 hospitalizations, and three deaths. The first death was an elderly woman in Wisconsin; the second death, a two-year-old in Idaho; and the third death, an elderly woman in Nebraska.
In what states have confirmed illnesses been reported and how many?
The 26 affected states are: Arizona (, California (2), Colorado (1), Connecticut (3), Idaho (, Illinois (2), Indiana (10), Kentucky (, Maine (3), Maryland (5), Michigan (4), Minnesota (2), Nebraska (11), Nevada (2), New Mexico (5), New York (11), Ohio (26), Oregon (6), Pennsylvania (10), Tennessee (1), Utah (19), Virginia (2), Washington (3), West Virginia (1), Wisconsin (50), and Wyoming (1). In addition, Canada has one confirmed case in the Province of Ontario

Here another video in the article below from Dateline NBC. The video is on the link.

Gross-ceries at the 7th Street Market
An undercover KNBC report finds filthy conditions at an L.A. produce market
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• Investigation into dirty L.A. produce market
March 25: Between the fields and your table, a lot of fruits and vegetables make a stop at a wholesale produce market. Los Angeles is lucky as one of the best consumer reporters, KNBC's Joel Grover, took hidden cameras inside one market. What he found may turn your stomach.
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Caroline Smith De Waal, consumer advocate for Science in the public interest: I think produce markets are one of the hidden hazards.

Caroline Smith De Waal, a consumer advocate from the center for science in the public interest, says wholesale produce markets might be a weak link in the food chain.

Smith De Waal: Consumers aren’t really aware of all the people who might be touching produce on its way to their table.

Starting last fall, we went undercover with hidden cameras, at the 7th Street Market, where week after week, we found filthy conditions—like workers dumping trash wherever they pleased or picking up cucumbers off the sludgy ground, and selling them like they’re clean.

We found produce stored right next to the porta-potties and next to garbage dumpsters which are crawling with rats—rats that feast on the markets fruits and vegetables.

NBC (on hidden camera): Are there rats?

Worker: Oh big ones. Boy, they love it in here.

Jeff Nelken, a forensic food safety expert, found these conditions inexcusable.

Jeffrey Nelken, food safety expert: Rats carry disease. As they walk on top of the food or they take a bite out of it, they are leaving their bacteria and virus behind.


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And at the bathrooms for the market’s workers, we found no hot water and no soap.

Every day, we saw workers like one woman, using the toilets, and then touching food, without washing their hands with soap and hot water.

And this is an image we saw multiple times—produce vendors urinating right out in the open, around boxes of vegetables.

Joel Grover, KNBC reporter: Why did you do that?

Vendor: Uhhh, I have no idea.

Vendor: I’m very stupid. I’m very stupid.

Grover: You shouldn’t have done that?

Vendor: Correct.

But this was perhaps the biggest health hazard we saw, water spilling out of pipes that smelled like raw sewage. The water was splashing right onto boxes of produce.

De Waal: The conditions in that market really look like turn of the century.

We took water samples from the market and had them analyzed at a lab. What did they find in that water touching fruits and vegetables? Extremely high levels of E. coli, fecal coliform, and listeria, which can all cause food poisoning—and can’t always be washed off.

So where does this possibly contaminated produce end up?

In Los Angeles, we tracked it to local outlets of national chains like Johnny Rockets and IHop, as well as to smaller restaurants and markets. These restaurants now tell us they’ve stopped buying produce at the 7th Street Market because of the conditions we found.

The conditions were so dirty, they surprise even some of the workers.

Worker (on hidden camera): I’m surprised the health department hasn’t said something about this market the way it is.

In fact, the L.A. County Health Department has been well aware of the problems at the 7th Street Market. We found stacks of health code violations in their own files, going back for years.

But as this inspector admitted on hidden camera, they’ve never done much to force the market to correct those violations.

Inspector (on hidden camera): We’ve been kind of lenient, awfully lenient with you guys. We’ve been kind of lenient, awfully lenient with you guys.

We wondered why so we asked Terrence Powell, chief of L.A. County Department of Environmental Health.

Terrence Powell, chief of L.A. County Department of Environmental Health: Our actions have been very aggressive in area of sanitation.

Aggressive, it seems, only after NBC started asking questions.

Right after we requested an interview, our hidden cameras caught the chief health inspector, warning vendors at the market that NBC was investigating, and they better clean up.

Inspector (hidden camera): NBC might be out here in another week or so.

Undercover producer: The fact that NBC is coming kind of gave us a heads up, huh?

Grover: Seems like your people have not been doing their job in keeping that place clean.

Powell: I think it would appear so.

Grover: Would you want to eat the food from this place?

Powell: I would have a definite concern about the food emanating from this facility

Because of our investigation, the LA County Board of supervisors ordered health officials to clean up the 7th Street Market.

Today, it’s beginning to look like a different place and the bathrooms are now up to code.

But food safety experts say what we found here should be a wakeup call to produce markets across the country.

Smith De Waal: Wholesale produce markets need to be inspected regularly... this is vital to ensure that conditions like this don’t exist in other cities.

The owner and manager of the 7th Street Market are now facing criminal charges for multiple health and safety code violations. A spokesperson for the market tells us they're surprised by the charges because they've cleaned things up.





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I feel really lucky up here. When we have local produce sold at farmers markets by local farmers, it is all done from a very clean and good envoriment. Mainly out of convenience, we tend to get our produce from our own local grocery store and have never had a problem.

When we go to Hood River in the fall to get cull apples, they will always tell you to wash them good before eating them, but you can see who you are buying from and their orchards are nice.

Turthfully, though, you simply cannot be careful enough anymore. It would pay off to have a garden.

Responding to American Elizabeth...Well the reason I am coming onboard here on this forum, because I too care about MY country. I am an American who loves her country very much and happens to have Mexican ancestry. There are many of us of Mexican ancestry who are against Illegal Immigration. This migrations of Illegals will not just affect those of European Ancestry but ALL AMERICANS, including those of Mexican ancestry. Those American- Mexicans who are in support of this do not think of the consequences in the future. I do not want to be a second class citizen while a Illegal Foreignor gets more rights than me, since I was born under a beautiful document called the US Constittion & The Bill of Rights. For example: I had gotten sick, and had no insurance at that time. I went to the county clinic. As I was waiting, I saw this woman from Mexico dragging her kids to the front reception. The woman was stating that she and her children were from Mexico, but only 1 of her children were born in the US. They had no insurance. What did the receptionist do? gave her ideals how to apply under her child's name so she can get assistance. Yet, here I am, with no insurance, and still had to pay out of my own pocket, because I didn't meet their qualifications. Looking back I am proud that I did, because I don't want to rely on the government for everything. So that pissed me off, think why is this woman giving a free pass in getting assistance but when I needed assistance financially, I was refused. So when I went to another county clinic, I found nothing but spanish speaking folks. I realize the hospital and clinics are being filled to capacity. I don't want to surrender my first class citizenship so I can become a second class for a foreignor who is breaking our laws. Also I am blessed and thankful that my grandparents came here to US. I would never trade this country for some third world environment. If this country doesn't control the illegal situtation, we will become a third world in no time. So there is your answer American Elizabeth.

As for this topic, again Middle Class Mexican don't do that in public. Like I stated only those who come from provish small towns where their infrastruture doesn't exist. Also like I said my aunt burns it and what is interesting the bathroom doesn't smell like my cousin's lol. The reason I believe is a little air freshener and they empty it at the end of the day to burn it in the morning. The smell doesn't linger. However, with my cousin here in the US they just toss in the basket and leave there until it is time to take the trash out lol. So you see the difference.

I agree Elizabeth, I hope and pray one day I can purchase a large lot to plant my own garden. I think that is the way to go now. My family used to raise chickens, so I hope I can do that again in the future. I want to be self reliant and grow my own vegies and raise chickens because I don't trust our food supply anymore. People are now coming down with all sorts of cancer I wonder if there is a link to our food products. I don't think back prior to the 80's, so many people are coming down with cancer.

Also another reason I do not like to eat in restaurants too lol. I notice that hygiene in restaurant are not good. I rather buy my own food and make it myself. I have been finding hairs, and flys lol. Sorry, I didn't add on extra to my food order lol.

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Berfie, we are all SO GLAD you are here. I asked this question because there are so many people who are American of Mexican descent who are virulent in being loyal to their own race, although the people they are supporting are lawbreakers, and yes, it hurts ALL Americans.

Many people here at ALIPAC are from all sorts of backgrounds, not just white, and we all recognize it is hurting us all.

What all of us, Americans, see in our own communities, as you have Berfie, is the blatant handing over of what our own parents, grandparents, etc.. have worked so hard to build up, and it is being handed out to criminals.

We also need to stand up to the anti-American groups like the ACLU, and others who would love to give our country away and erase our borders. They also are a real threat to all we love here and we need to be on guard for that as well.

Berfie, I too have seen what you have seen, illegal aliens being fast-tracked into getting help they did not qualify for, while hard-working, tax-paying citizens were in need. It is maddening to see this.

I have family in Klamath Falls, Malin, Tule Lake, and Merril. What city are you in?

Well Elizabeth, for a fact, my father was a farm worker. Eventhough he was born in the US, he was raised in Mexico. You see my father knew the who's who's of Mexico thru my grandfather. My grandfather grew up in a neighborhood where many became very influtiential people in the entertainment, business, and yes Politics world. My father knew them. Due to situation at home, my father came back to the US not because he needed to, because he wanted to. Why? he had 2 choices, either stay in Mexico and live a very comfortable life, and become corrupt due to the political environment OR come to the US and struggle and staying humble. Yes, my father gave it up but he was warned once he entered back to the US, he is on his own thanks to one of his connection of helping him over here. My father did just that I am very proud of him doing that. In order to survive here in the US he had to work as a farm worker, eventhough he had an enginering degree. My father and I disagree on the illegals but now I understand why. Due to the fact, he worked on the farms, and he understood the hard work that goes into it, but he was not supportive of a the Mexican Government, as he always stated it was corrupt. So in a way my father was support of his race but he was not supportive of the government.

I cannot comprehend how Illegals can be happy about the Mexican government intervening into our laws. If the government didn't give a hoot about them when they were over there, what makes them that the government gives them a hoot about them over here in the US. They are being used just so the elitist can have their socialistic / Communistic Utopia which one of that happens to be the North America Merger. So that is why it is important to stop this evil merger. I don't want Mexico budding into my life and government.

Originally Posted by CCUSA

They sell Avadcados in NJ all year long too.

They sell Avocados in Northern VA all year long too, but they are shipped in from CA or Mexico. Our goal is to try to buy locally (within a 100 mile radius) whenever possible.

Sadly, there are no avocados grown in VA.

It may be paranoia playing through but I am losing faith in our Goverment's regulation of our food supply.

JuneS_Reston wrote:

It may be paranoia playing through but I am losing faith in our Goverment's regulation of our food supply.

It is not paranoia, it is reality coming through!

Junes_Reston Wrote:

Sadly, there are no avocados grown in VA.

That`s because they cannot withstand frozen ground.
Someone could grow them in a green house in crates above the ground. As long as they receive their share of sunshine.