Too busy featuring the reporter at every opportunity they could. I thought the story was about fresh food pathogens, but after seeing the reporter from every angle possible...it just became distracting. I don't know why they didn't dress her in a Victoria Secrets bra and panties... How do pathogens get in fresh foods...people and animals shit in the fields...surprise surprise.
It does at ~ 5:40. Being a gardener with modern, ahem, facilities nearby I had often wondered if field workers would take the time to walk way over to the portapotty then take the time to wash their hands. When using public restrooms I have noticed that some people don't wash their hands even though there is a nice clean sink, with no touch operation, right there. So I guess I got my answer.
Where have you been all your life? California (not L.A.), Florida (not Miami), the South, Middle America. I used to joke that Iowa had a state law against planting grass: only corn is allowed there. In Kansas it's wheat. It is a seasonal thing. We want our veggies year round, not just in season.
Eat only cooked vegetables, properly cooked meat, and water that is free from plastic aka go to a spring and fill up stainless steel, BPA free, or glass containers.
Your reply was my comment also. Take responsibility for your own health. Even if you live in the pavement jungle you can grow something of your own to eat; be it a small cherry tomato plant or a box of mini romain. You CAN AND SHOULD do some of your own food production. Find out how. Don't make excuses. Just grow it!
#1: FARMS SHOULD NOT LET EMPLOYEES URINATE/DEFECATE IN THE FIELDS. Make sure bathrooms are in the fields aAND EMPLOYEES FORCED TO WASH HANDS WITH SOAP & WATER. and provide hydrogen peroxide solution to use as RINSE AFTER WASHING HANDS. Then shake off:/
Most would love to have these conditions. At home they keep everything clean even though the families are large. Having bathrooms and cleaning stations in the fields would be the best solution! All employees need to be allowed to do what you suggested. :)
I've seen it first hand when I lived in Fresno CA. There was a field of field greens being harvested near my house and I watched them squatting and shittling right in the field
Fat chance...35 gallons of water for perhaps 60 workers for washing. Rubber gloves but they treat the gloves just like flesh and rub hair and clothes etc. with the gloves...need much more educated workers but if you are educated you do not want this job...
ah american arrogance at it's best! Make the most of it, before you fade into complete irrelevance! You've already opted out of your biggest markets & the world is already reshuffling trade to permanently adjust to a US free trade world. Bad idea to pull out of the tpp & give China the ability to negotiate the new trade structure that excludes you
Made from potatoes or mostly from grains which can have ergot. Which apparently causing gangrene is being planted by people to sell it for some sort of Medicine...💩😵🤷😳🤬🤦
I had to laugh at the hair nets in the field. They're walking in mud and manure and they're worried a hair might drop. Diapers for the farm workers might be a better use of their money than hair nets.
Maybe if small organic LOCAL farmers weren’t blocked out of the market our food system wouldn’t be stressed. Because the mega farms all they do is destroy land. Real farmers don’t. They’ll switch crops areas which makes the soil healthier. And the healthier the soil the healthier the food. What we need is small local farmers teaming up to provide sustainable food for each community. And maybe have shipping within the same state. And have that system In each and every community. That’s THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE has a human race.
WASH ALL PRODUCE BEFORE YOU EAT IT! This was the rule on the farm 60 years ago and it has not changed. Do not expect the government to keep pathogens out of your food.
Wash your produce in warm water with baking soda and vinager. So many people just eat it without washing and you can't do that anymore. Don't get lettuce eating out either
Working in construction I have seen people shit piss on the floor it happens more than you think and always there's bathroom available. The part I see that can be fixed is making bathroom available for the workers how I don't know but in 2006 it cost them 300 million dollars I'm sure someone can figure something out. By the way after seeing what I have I'm assuming this is more of a problem than we think
Personally, I think the problem is that we as a society have become so antibacterial, it has destroyed our immune system. I say eat a handful of dirt daily like we did as children. We'll be just fine.
She was three when she ate lettuce? I think theres more to that story probably the burger that she ate with the lettuce. I just find that hard to believe she ate lettuce at 3. Most of the ecoli is from farmers planting to quickly after spreading shit then rain splashes the shit onto the lettuce and its not washed 100%. Thats why you fertilize in the fall and plant in spring. But they grow year round so they have no 90 days before planting new crops. I know this because im an organic farmer and these are the rules and reasons like this is why we have rules.
Tajeanhus Greens Herbs, Produce & Vegan Meals I didn’t hear them say she ate a hamburger with the lettuce. Did I just miss this or are you making an assumption? When my daughter was three she LOVED salads! She still does at 19. We have the cutest photos of her as a child making her Dad and I her little salad creations and proudly serving them to us.
@@TheMusachioedBrony I think it's assumption. Lets see what I can assume since I have a 2yr degree in Horticulture and farmed on a dairy farm. You spread manure on the field "before" plowing or planting because you want those nutrients and organics in the soil not on top. Some times farmers will spread liquid manure after a field of hay has been mowed or inject it in the ground. You don't spread manure on a crop because it "burns" and sticks to crop. And it's just plain nasty to do to food. So I will "assume" the contamination came from a field worker took a crap in the field and didn't wash their mess off their hands or birds and animals contaminated it. Oh, that's what the vid says. I sure don't want organic if they fling their poo on the crop for organic fertilization. No more organics for me.
@Thomas Jefferson Many are not illegal but hired by people that could not find workers to pick watermelons all summer. They do not have port-a-johns here in the fields. Working in the heat all day and having to go potty is hard. The heat makes bacteria grow faster. If farm owners had portable restrooms and a place to wash afterwards it would help. Even local workers have to endure the same conditions. Owners are busy overseeing everything to think of these details.
Finding a working toilet in non tourist areas of Mexico is like winning the lotto. Farm workers like normal Mexicans will stop where ever and eliminate , no I am not kidding. Now in the middle of a field, no toilet , toilet paper, soap or sink what do you suppose your odds are.
Textbook delusional case right here. Do you think these workers are shitting like elephants to be able to successfully contaminate thousands of pounds? 😂
Well I doubt it's the pickers, however, do you really think they give them regular breaks and easy access to restrooms with paper and water? Not likely.
spikefivefivefive what an ignorant statement. Supposing that is the cause, which it isn't Jesus Christ there are no toilets out there to be found, get real. Workers might be there for a twelve hour shift, try it sometime!
At least 1/3 of the material in the human gut is E-coli. source: MD by Ben Kean. Like it says, "There's not always a toilet around." If I was picking vegetables and had to go...I'd simply pull down my pants and let her fly!
Oh, how I miss my garden! Could grow enough veggies to give a lot of it away to others. And it was organic. And fresh. Or frozen. Or canned for winter use.
While I know it's not the same, may I suggest you visit a local hydroponics store? Tech has come a LONG way in recent years, there's huge varieties of lights & nutrient mixes available that may be able to allow you to return to growing most of your own produce in even a tiny indoor area. Lots of places you can buy from & hydroponic stores can be expensive, but they're the best option to go visit to learn what's available so you can decide if you want to pursue it further. My pick is the canna range of nutrients (they have an organic one if you want it) in kratky or deep water hydroponics & with a basic 26-52w t5 lighting set up (that's 1 or 2x2foot long tubes & plenty of light for a 2 foot long fish tank full of lettuce). I generally just grow lettuce in kratky in old vitamin jars when growing indoors, theoreticly at least the lack of aeration is meant to slow their growth, but I haven't noticed it much & it means best use of space, with the ability to spread plants apart as they grow. Fruiting stuff like tomatoes & no doubt whatever you were freezing & canning takes a lot more work & lighting, tomatoes generally need a full cannabis growing set up, which is likely not even close to economical for you! but any leafy stuff as opposed to fruity stuff is seriously easy to grow with limited indoor lights. I couldn't handle losing my garden, so I really feel for you! I hope the above gives you some sort of help to grow at least some stuff again! I HATE how old & rotted store bought stuff tastes & looks compared to garden fresh stuff! Not to mention the variety options & convenience & relaxation of gardening in the first place. Everyone in this world should have a garden! Should be a basic human right! & if you get it all working well, consider growing some kombucha or beer next to the grow area - and run a plastic tube from that into the grow area to transfer the carbon dioxide waste gas into the plants :) I haven't got mine set up & working yet, but I'm told it can reduce growing time to less than half the usual time!
The thing is, e-coli feeds on sugar, so if you cut out sugar and just eat meat and greens, you should be fine. The issue comes from high sugar diet that feeds the bad bacteria. We have been consuming leafy greens, salad veg, ecoli and salmonella since time began but only now is it becoming an issue.
That one girl blamed her Diabetes on the E-Coli infection that she had when she was a child, ... WRONG ! Her Diabetes is more than likely the result of her being Overweight, a High Carb diet and not enough exercise !!!
E-coli starts in the fields where the workers cut and gather the produce. Throughout the years different crops have been contaminated with E-coli and other bacterium. Spinach and cantaloupe were two most recently as were other green leafy vegetables. There is a window for cultivating certain crops in a specific time frame to ensure peak freshness. The workers must harvest the crops quickly not only for the produce but for maximum labor output thereby keeping their low paying jobs. Notice if you will the sanitary conditions available for the workers in the fields; are there enough nearby portable toilets, is there a water supply for them to wash up and disinfect their hands. It is an assumption that the workers in the fields cannot or will not take the time to walk a far distance to relieve themselves in the proper portable toilet and if they did is there water and soap available to clean up? Defecating in the field may be a quick and easy solution to their discomfort. Irrigation then washes the human fecal matter into the nearby water channels or ground water and extreme contamination occurs. A simple wash at the gathering machines contribute to tainted ground water and do not kill or wash away all the bacteria, subsequently the tainted produce makes it into fast food restaurants and into homes where sanitizing efforts are lacking. Produce imported from some countries that do not have strict health codes will use human waste as fertilizer. It has been documented that this type of crop fertilizing is prevalent in third world countries including China where the bottom line of profit takes precedence over working conditions and pay.
I see workers shit and piss on the floors and heating ducts at work in construction. Plenty of bathrooms available. I assume this is a big problem in the fields more so than they like to say
Don't have this issue where I live, but then I'm not in the US, I'm in a first world country where we pay decent wages & treat all workers with respect. If you want to scam workers, then this is the price you should expect to pay for it!
According to the FDA, it probably came from a large cattle feedlot at one end of a valley near Yuma, Ariz., which is one of the country's biggest lettuce-growing areas. CNN missing the mark daily a low resolution news network for the low resolution viewer.
This is CNN they have been lying to the US and the world for years They are nothign but propagandists .What they report is what they WANT YOU TO BELIEVE rather that what is really happening
That safe wash discussed by the CEO of the processing operation said something flatly wrong - he said the wash kills Gram-negative organisms. And, then he listed E. coli, Salmonella spp., and Listeria as Gram-negative organisms. Uh, Listeria is Gram-positive, not Gram-negative, so I doubt that that wash has any effect on Listeria monocytogenes. I'm a PhD with microbiology as one of my areas of expertise.
It's no surprise that this KEEPS happening. When you have big business they will find shortcuts. Cows will grow ecoli in their stomachs if fed CORN. GRASS fed cows will not. Finding it cheaper in the short run for big farming is a huge savings to use animal manure. But how do you determine if cow manure is GRASS or CORN fed. You DONT. So at the crap table sorry no pun You through the dice. And sometimes a 300 million dollar gamble happens. On a micro farm growing up we would get major piles of manure from our local cow horse auction house in the winter. I always found it interesting to watch the piles smoke and steam off. My dad told me it was cooking. It heats up killing off ALL bad bacteria. Leaving a good broke down product. Great for the garden. Sounds like your pushing GREEN manure on the fields. Inriched with possible ecoli. That's why SOMETIMES major meat houses when butcher they will cut through the waist bag of a cow and manure waiste will spill on the equipment, meat and production should stop. Be cleaned and that meat be disposed of. But that dosnt always happen. Meat industry has gotten much better.
As a teenager in the 70s I worked the lettuce fields in the Holland Marsh every summer . We packed thousands of cases of it everyday . If you had to use the washroom you were taken by tractor to the main barn ... But then again we're not 3rd world people.....
spcornick good eye! I'm studying for an exam and when I heard him say that I got jolted and had to go back to my notes. But yep, listeria monocytogenes is gram positive!
Maddie Playz And I love spinach smoothies. What would I ever do without it. I stopped taking supplements, to get the vitamins from my greens, and other foods.
Have you ever thought that it could be their water source is contaminated??? Taylor farms they have fields in yuma arizona and most of their water source is the colorado river, and runs several states and it could be dead animals all the way from the birth source of the river...
Contracting a food borne illness can be greatly reduced by some simple steps. 1 Keep your kitchen clean using antibacterial cleaning products. 2 Always wash your hands while preparing food 3 Never eat undercooked meats or eggs 4 Avoid organic produce.
#4 is really key. All the soy boys of the world scream for organic, but in reality chemical fertilizers won't cause these issues. They may cause other health issues though.
5. ignore everything idiots say on the internet! antibacterials do NOTHING to help situations like this, all they do is increase antibiotic resistance washing hands while preparing food shouldn't need to be said undercooked meats or eggs are not the foods causing food poisoning (in my country raw eggs are a common food/drink ingredient & we don't vaccinate or refrigerate washed eggs or make any other attempt to stop salmonella in them, but we don't die from it either! Try focusing on the lettuce, where most of the food poisonings are actually happening! organic produce is generally produced small scale & as such is easily tracked if contamination occurs, but it rarely does anyway, as one bit of contamination isn't spread to millions in machinery as has occurred here. Organic produce will also omit all the shit that will malfunction a human immune system & prevent it from killing off the nasties itself, not to mention it's high in vitamin C, which helps boost the body's own immune system so you don't get sick
@@dollyv7882 unfortunately a lot of those don't do much more than a placebo, I used to think they did & used them a lot, but when I started working with tissue culture, I wanted a natural alternative to bleach & tested them all in proper scientific conditions & was disappointingly surprised at how useless most actually were, the vinegar in particular, but just the act of washing alone is enough for the vast majority of stuff (I actually had trouble with my first rounds of testing because I didn't do controls & thought the vinegar, H2O2 etc were working, but then when I did controls, I found that just a water wash was removing most bacteria, fungus & mould from metal utensils without any extra treatments being needed. A little detergent or something with the ability to penetrate oil, along with water will clean nearly anything to cleaner than the air we breathe in a clean, outdoor environment :)
In reality, In the fields, there are no porta potty during harvest time. If there is one, it will be a quarter mile away or more and when pickers have to go number 2 then they have no choice but to take dump it in the field. That's how you get e-coli.
I am growing my own. Have been for years and starting up again as the taste is out of the world. Organic because I manually control bugs. Ry it folks, it's great!
3(?) years ago Salinas Valley lettuce scare. They blamed it on a dairy 5 miles away but it was lazy honey bucket service dumping the sewage at the edge of the field.
I already know how it gets there. I’ve contracted companies that ended up using Latino workers, whose language skills were always limited. They did a great job but I had to clean up HUMAN excrement every single time! I would always tell them PLEASE, use our bathroom, we don’t mind but they never did. Now that’s one story of attic workers, gutter workers and painting company and in each case, I had a disgusting job after they left. Nothing seemed to deter the behavior, and no toilet paper either! Imagine what happens in fields when someone isn’t cleaning up after them.
@@judywright4241 well I live in Australia, we pay $22 per hour upwards for all work in this country, including lettuce picking & we NEVER have anyone shitting in our lettuce! Our lettuce pickers walk off the job if they're not provided with high level toilets, with toiletpaper, soap etc & if the area isn't close to accommodation, they also expect to be provided with hotel level accommodation, with showers, toilets, high quality recreational facilities etc & anyone who fails to provide that will have to either pick the lettuce themself, or feed it to livestock that will pick it themselves. There's a few dodgy companies out there providing workers for farmers with substandard facilities, using illegal workers, but authorities are always onto them & keep records of farms using this dodgy, cheap labour & continually return there until they get the message & start doing the right thing. Put simply, you wouldn't last in Australia! You can blame others all you like, but you know full well that you are hiring slave labour & so the buck stops with you! Pay them properly & you wouldn't get lettuce shitters! And if you think you are paying them properly, then I suggest you hire an interpreter to have a conversation with some of the workers & ask them how much money THEY, not the company, are getting & what the conditions put on them are, because there's clearly no question that they are not being properly paid from what you describe & likely are being told by the company you hire & who have people that can actually communicate with them, that they are not permitted toilet breaks. Stop blaming others for the known problems that occur when you use slaves to do your work!
It is meant to feed the masses not to be a better product, but when your immune system is low that is when anything can happen in your health, 1 out of 5 people will have this problem and could mean death.
When you go to grocery stores the produce is handled by everyone that HASN'T washed their hands. They squeeze and handle your food that is not sealed. Washing your food no matter if it's sealed or not is important for your health. Read up in using Hydrogen peroxide in cleaning your food.
People worry about the food infecting them, so why do they give babies their keys to play with and the babies put them in their mouth. Please don't tell me the keys don't have bacteria on them. If this is true, then I am thankful for the babies' sake. However, I doubt that keys are free from germs.
If you spray and then rinse the greens with colloidial silver, it will kill all bacteria on your food. Or, combine 1/4 cup of colloidial silver with distilled water in a glass mixing bowl for 5 minutes. Then rinse.
I've seen working conditions so bad, that going to work was a theat to my life! And thats working in production as a welder/fabricator! After not being able to find a job, I was forced back to the fields I left at 17 years of age and in my 30's ! Boy was I in for a world of hurt.......After two weeks, I was still sore! And it brought back memories of working the fields as a youngster and witnessing hard working people, just walk off by noon! Even me and two vans full of Chicanos ( American born Mexican decent) And out of 20 of us only mysekf and my twin,worked the our whole shift and only stopped doing that cause I found another job. ( as a roofer ) I've worked in landscaping, construction, all terribly hard if the pace is crazy! But nothing ever compared to working in the fields! The forman kept yelling at me to hurry up ( and I was in the middle of the pack ) and glancing around I can see the forman telling the packleaders to "help the older ladies " who were in the rear......and all of a sudden all the disabled, elderly and old woman were full caught up!....It's when I realized, what was being done " this was a concerted effort to ( NOT GET BEAT BY THE" POCHO " the local born ) and I hung in there and worked my ass off until I could keep the pace. But I'll never forget! Having to tell the forman to simmer down, cause I had been absent from them fields since 17yrs of age, and he was surprisingly astonished by the way I worked and he even asked me how old I was and I said 36 and he was even more agaspted, almost choking cause I guess he was about my age, but looked like ten years older......I definitely don't miss the burning of my eyes from the pesticides and the smell of the chemicals! And the poor woman having to beg to use the toilet and with out a doubt, they crap and piss on the crops, cause those formans are like slave drivers.....this strong woman in her 40's finally stood up to the guy and said " if you want to, dock my pay,go ahead! But I shouldn't have to beg you for my right! " I was proud of that lady. Sometimes I feel that the American economy was so entrenched in free labor ( slavery through the usery of its black captives and later replaced by the brown man) she's a living breathing entity and still susceptible to fits of racist rage against her unwanted, but overtly used, colonized citizens...... everytime a gringo has the gumption to run his mouth about "how I need to go back to my country! I just chuckle! Man! How the devil can be so self convinced! AND TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS TO THE FACT THAT THERE'S A GOD OF JUSTICE!
And the real reason? Your food safety regs don't care a shit! Other countries have tracking systems in place & the ability to identify & isolate any farm responsible for an outbreak like this. Just look at Australia with egg salmonella at the moment, identified after just a couple of hospitalisations, farm identified, put into quarantine, all eggs entering the system prior to quarantine recalled, new eggs remain on shelves & no issue to continue to buy & eat (although short term advice to cook them fully before eating while making 100% sure all sources have been eliminated from the system). This is a system failure from a system designed to care more about protecting big industry than protecting people!
"How do you get so close to it"
"Because they don't jump"
Hands down the best statement in this video hahaha
Priceless!!!
SOOO, I'm guessing that coronavirus jumps?😅🤔🧐
After five minutes thirty seconds you may be asking why hasn't this video addressed its point.
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Too busy featuring the reporter at every opportunity they could. I thought the story was about fresh food pathogens, but after seeing the reporter from every angle possible...it just became distracting. I don't know why they didn't dress her in a Victoria Secrets bra and panties...
How do pathogens get in fresh foods...people and animals shit in the fields...surprise surprise.
I't's the Media. They only want to talk about themselves, not the subject at hand.
It does at ~ 5:40.
Being a gardener with modern, ahem, facilities nearby I had often wondered if field workers would take the time to walk way over to the portapotty then take the time to wash their hands. When using public restrooms I have noticed that some people don't wash their hands even though there is a nice clean sink, with no touch operation, right there. So I guess I got my answer.
Seriously...my thoughts made it as far as the 5 minutes. Comments are more informative.
We need to start growing our own food again. Things have gotten way out of hand
Way ahead of you, man.
Unless you provide proof of your statement, your statement is unless. Please provide proof
@@ms-tw4sj I think you just proved it.
Sounds like a simple solution but 1/3 of population would have to quit their current job and move to rural America.
Where have you been all your life? California (not L.A.), Florida (not Miami), the South, Middle America. I used to joke that Iowa had a state law against planting grass: only corn is allowed there. In Kansas it's wheat. It is a seasonal thing. We want our veggies year round, not just in season.
So basically don't eat meat don't eat vegetables don't drink water don't breathe air
You forgot one thing don't live
+IthatoneguyLOL agree
Life is death
Eat organic fruit (and wash it first) to live nourished, cleansed, and happy. Go fruit yourself :)
Eat only cooked vegetables, properly cooked meat, and water that is free from plastic aka go to a spring and fill up stainless steel, BPA free, or glass containers.
Grow your own.
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Your reply was my comment also. Take responsibility for your own health. Even if you live in the pavement jungle you can grow something of your own to eat; be it a small cherry tomato plant or a box of mini romain. You CAN AND SHOULD do some of your own food production. Find out how. Don't make excuses. Just grow it!
You can grow greens in a bucket, crate or pot plant. You can grow in an apartment or house. Just take responsibility and take charge of your life.
#1: FARMS SHOULD NOT LET EMPLOYEES URINATE/DEFECATE IN THE FIELDS. Make sure bathrooms are in the fields aAND EMPLOYEES FORCED TO WASH HANDS WITH SOAP & WATER. and provide hydrogen peroxide solution to use as RINSE AFTER WASHING HANDS. Then shake off:/
Most would love to have these conditions. At home they keep everything clean even though the families are large. Having bathrooms and cleaning stations in the fields would be the best solution! All employees need to be allowed to do what you suggested. :)
Friggen nasty I never eat produce from California or Mexico ...I only eat local and when In season it’s just not worth it to me
"Then shake off:/" ???!!!
I've seen it first hand when I lived in Fresno CA. There was a field of field greens being harvested near my house and I watched them squatting and shittling right in the field
Fat chance...35 gallons of water for perhaps 60 workers for washing. Rubber gloves but they treat the gloves just like flesh and rub hair and clothes etc. with the gloves...need much more educated workers but if you are educated you do not want this job...
“Because they don’t jump” 😂😂😂😂
You're cute.
1:11
Priceless!!!
The guy said. "The farmers are the backbone of this nation" Wrong dude.. The farmers are the backbone of the world.
ah american arrogance at it's best! Make the most of it, before you fade into complete irrelevance! You've already opted out of your biggest markets & the world is already reshuffling trade to permanently adjust to a US free trade world. Bad idea to pull out of the tpp & give China the ability to negotiate the new trade structure that excludes you
@@lilaclizard4504 This replay is for me or for the video owner? I do not understand what's your point? If is not for me.. then sorry.
This Video has about 30 Second worth of Real Info
So yeah now I'm not gonna eat anything. Ever. I'm just gonna live off Vodka.
Lexi James that’s unlikely and unhealthy
It's just Me she was just joking...
Lexi James I bet they could find something toxic in vodka too if they look hard enough 😂
if you drink soda you probably won't get sick.
Made from potatoes or mostly from grains which can have ergot.
Which apparently causing gangrene is being planted by people to sell it for some sort of Medicine...💩😵🤷😳🤬🤦
I had to laugh at the hair nets in the field. They're walking in mud and manure and they're worried a hair might drop. Diapers for the farm workers might be a better use of their money than hair nets.
What this report fails to tell you is about Biosluge from our cities water treatment plants put onto farm fields.
This is why we grow our own food
Maybe if small organic LOCAL farmers weren’t blocked out of the market our food system wouldn’t be stressed. Because the mega farms all they do is destroy land. Real farmers don’t. They’ll switch crops areas which makes the soil healthier. And the healthier the soil the healthier the food.
What we need is small local farmers teaming up to provide sustainable food for each community. And maybe have shipping within the same state. And have that system In each and every community.
That’s THE ONLY WAY TO SURVIVE has a human race.
You will still have the same problem if the people harvesting the crops are being paid piece work.
The consequences of organic is untreated soil, that's the point of organic. There's no GMO produce in Europe yet E coli amongst produce is rife
Solution? Affordable DIY greenhouses and teach ag work ethic
WASH ALL PRODUCE BEFORE YOU EAT IT! This was the rule on the farm 60 years ago and it has not changed. Do not expect the government to keep pathogens out of your food.
Wash your produce in warm water with baking soda and vinager. So many people just eat it without washing and you can't do that anymore. Don't get lettuce eating out either
you're absolutely right LZ...never ever eat salad anywhere except at home and especially if it's with Indian food.
Not bad advice, but washing lettuce in warm water wilts it. That would make a terrible salad.
This is what happens when growers use workers who come from societies where personal cleanliness is simply not part of the culture.
Working in construction I have seen people shit piss on the floor it happens more than you think and always there's bathroom available. The part I see that can be fixed is making bathroom available for the workers how I don't know but in 2006 it cost them 300 million dollars I'm sure someone can figure something out. By the way after seeing what I have I'm assuming this is more of a problem than we think
Why in the world are those Two wearing hair nets in an open field?
Interesting how they don't mention that some farmers receive solid waste from sewage treatment plants and spread it on their fields . . .
5:30 for the start
Personally, I think the problem is that we as a society have become so antibacterial, it has destroyed our immune system. I say eat a handful of dirt daily like we did as children. We'll be just fine.
And this is why you have more salad selection and quantities ever in your lifetime.
She was three when she ate lettuce? I think theres more to that story probably the burger that she ate with the lettuce. I just find that hard to believe she ate lettuce at 3. Most of the ecoli is from farmers planting to quickly after spreading shit then rain splashes the shit onto the lettuce and its not washed 100%. Thats why you fertilize in the fall and plant in spring. But they grow year round so they have no 90 days before planting new crops. I know this because im an organic farmer and these are the rules and reasons like this is why we have rules.
Tajeanhus Greens Herbs, Produce & Vegan Meals I didn’t hear them say she ate a hamburger with the lettuce. Did I just miss this or are you making an assumption? When my daughter was three she LOVED salads! She still does at 19. We have the cutest photos of her as a child making her Dad and I her little salad creations and proudly serving them to us.
@@TheMusachioedBrony I think it's assumption. Lets see what I can assume since I have a 2yr degree in Horticulture and farmed on a dairy farm. You spread manure on the field "before" plowing or planting because you want those nutrients and organics in the soil not on top. Some times farmers will spread liquid manure after a field of hay has been mowed or inject it in the ground. You don't spread manure on a crop because it "burns" and sticks to crop. And it's just plain nasty to do to food. So I will "assume" the contamination came from a field worker took a crap in the field and didn't wash their mess off their hands or birds and animals contaminated it. Oh, that's what the vid says. I sure don't want organic if they fling their poo on the crop for organic fertilization. No more organics for me.
@Thomas Jefferson Many are not illegal but hired by people that could not find workers to pick watermelons all summer. They do not have port-a-johns here in the fields. Working in the heat all day and having to go potty is hard. The heat makes bacteria grow faster. If farm owners had portable restrooms and a place to wash afterwards it would help. Even local workers have to endure the same conditions. Owners are busy overseeing everything to think of these details.
I've been eating raw vegetables and salads since I could eat solid food. Why on earth would a three year old not eat lettuce?
@Thomas Jefferson You're a pathetic cretin.
Workers are pissing and shitting on the vegetables when picking them.
I always had a glass of moonshine before and after a salad - for good health. After watching this.....I skip the veggies
Finding a working toilet in non tourist areas of Mexico is like winning the lotto.
Farm workers like normal Mexicans will stop where ever and eliminate , no I am not kidding. Now in the middle of a field, no toilet , toilet paper, soap or sink what do you suppose your odds are.
Migrant workers dropping their scat in the fields is how it get's in the food. Farmers don't control their workers enough.
Textbook delusional case right here. Do you think these workers are shitting like elephants to be able to successfully contaminate thousands of pounds? 😂
Well maybe you superbly perfect "hard working" whites should pick your own dam food...
Well I doubt it's the pickers, however, do you really think they give them regular breaks and easy access to restrooms with paper and water? Not likely.
charlesyRocio Baca totally agree
spikefivefivefive what an ignorant statement. Supposing that is the cause, which it isn't Jesus Christ there are no toilets out there to be found, get real. Workers might be there for a twelve hour shift, try it sometime!
had my stint with trying to eat healthy, cost me a fortune in the hospital, never been the same since...be careful; educate yourself to the risks
Hint: you already have e coli inside you.
Yes, it's normal. Someone said there's a huge variety of e coli, only 2 of which are a problem for humans.
Partial comment excluding the point of focus.
I am so glad i grow all the veggies and herbs i eat.
At least 1/3 of the material in the human gut is E-coli. source: MD by Ben Kean. Like it says, "There's not always a toilet around." If I was picking vegetables and had to go...I'd simply pull down my pants and let her fly!
And also enjoy the view and listen to the breeze.It sounds tempting!
Oh, how I miss my garden! Could grow enough veggies to give a lot of it away to others. And it was organic. And fresh. Or frozen. Or canned for winter use.
While I know it's not the same, may I suggest you visit a local hydroponics store? Tech has come a LONG way in recent years, there's huge varieties of lights & nutrient mixes available that may be able to allow you to return to growing most of your own produce in even a tiny indoor area. Lots of places you can buy from & hydroponic stores can be expensive, but they're the best option to go visit to learn what's available so you can decide if you want to pursue it further.
My pick is the canna range of nutrients (they have an organic one if you want it) in kratky or deep water hydroponics & with a basic 26-52w t5 lighting set up (that's 1 or 2x2foot long tubes & plenty of light for a 2 foot long fish tank full of lettuce). I generally just grow lettuce in kratky in old vitamin jars when growing indoors, theoreticly at least the lack of aeration is meant to slow their growth, but I haven't noticed it much & it means best use of space, with the ability to spread plants apart as they grow.
Fruiting stuff like tomatoes & no doubt whatever you were freezing & canning takes a lot more work & lighting, tomatoes generally need a full cannabis growing set up, which is likely not even close to economical for you! but any leafy stuff as opposed to fruity stuff is seriously easy to grow with limited indoor lights.
I couldn't handle losing my garden, so I really feel for you! I hope the above gives you some sort of help to grow at least some stuff again! I HATE how old & rotted store bought stuff tastes & looks compared to garden fresh stuff! Not to mention the variety options & convenience & relaxation of gardening in the first place. Everyone in this world should have a garden! Should be a basic human right!
& if you get it all working well, consider growing some kombucha or beer next to the grow area - and run a plastic tube from that into the grow area to transfer the carbon dioxide waste gas into the plants :) I haven't got mine set up & working yet, but I'm told it can reduce growing time to less than half the usual time!
The thing is, e-coli feeds on sugar, so if you cut out sugar and just eat meat and greens, you should be fine. The issue comes from high sugar diet that feeds the bad bacteria. We have been consuming leafy greens, salad veg, ecoli and salmonella since time began but only now is it becoming an issue.
You don't know that. People got sick and died at a way earlier age the further you go back in the past.
Dang! I never got sick from eating my own produce from my own backyard. I'm gonna stay with that .
Expensively produced video by Media presenters, producers and filmmakers operating at grade school level. Style over substance.
Quick answer,workers taking a dump in the fields 5:55.
There, saved you about eight minutes.
You're welcome.
When it comes to food safety, you are responsible for yourself.
That one girl blamed her Diabetes on the E-Coli infection that she had when she was a child, ... WRONG ! Her Diabetes is more than likely the result of her being Overweight, a High Carb diet and not enough exercise !!!
It can be hereditary, too.
@@humblysoftlygentlypaxprofu6997 ; WRONG ! You are some kinda of Special STUPID !!
@@humblysoftlygentlypaxprofu6997 ; I BLOCKED YOU because You're Stupid !!!
That reporter has the most annoying voice I have ever heard.
I guess you never heard of Gayle King...
She has cultivated the "vocal fry". It's scratchy. Mostly at the end of a phrase or sentence. I found myself mocking her out loud! Irritated myself.
you're one of those people that likes robots voices!
It’s not ON it.....it’s IN it!
E-coli starts in the fields where the workers cut and gather the produce. Throughout the years different crops have been contaminated with E-coli and other bacterium. Spinach and cantaloupe were two most recently as were other green leafy vegetables. There is a window for cultivating certain crops in a specific time frame to ensure peak freshness. The workers must harvest the crops quickly not only for the produce but for maximum labor output thereby keeping their low paying jobs. Notice if you will the sanitary conditions available for the workers in the fields; are there enough nearby portable toilets, is there a water supply for them to wash up and disinfect their hands. It is an assumption that the workers in the fields cannot or will not take the time to walk a far distance to relieve themselves in the proper portable toilet and if they did is there water and soap available to clean up? Defecating in the field may be a quick and easy solution to their discomfort. Irrigation then washes the human fecal matter into the nearby water channels or ground water and extreme contamination occurs. A simple wash at the gathering machines contribute to tainted ground water and do not kill or wash away all the bacteria, subsequently the tainted produce makes it into fast food restaurants and into homes where sanitizing efforts are lacking. Produce imported from some countries that do not have strict health codes will use human waste as fertilizer. It has been documented that this type of crop fertilizing is prevalent in third world countries including China where the bottom line of profit takes precedence over working conditions and pay.
I see workers shit and piss on the floors and heating ducts at work in construction. Plenty of bathrooms available. I assume this is a big problem in the fields more so than they like to say
Don't have this issue where I live, but then I'm not in the US, I'm in a first world country where we pay decent wages & treat all workers with respect. If you want to scam workers, then this is the price you should expect to pay for it!
That's great. No bathroom close so I'm just going to take a dump right here on your Cilantro....
Wash and cook your greens. Simple
Not quite chief.
Saying grace before a meal doesn’t hurt!!
According to the FDA, it probably came from a large cattle feedlot at one end of a valley near Yuma, Ariz., which is one of the country's biggest lettuce-growing areas. CNN missing the mark daily a low resolution news network for the low resolution viewer.
The root cause is always factory farms...
This is CNN they have been lying to the US and the world for years They are nothign but propagandists .What they report is what they WANT YOU TO BELIEVE rather that what is really happening
@b carb like i said....low resolution. I live in ann arbor mi. Thanks for making my case and i hope you find some happiness soon.
That safe wash discussed by the CEO of the processing operation said something flatly wrong - he said the wash kills Gram-negative organisms. And, then he listed E. coli, Salmonella spp., and Listeria as Gram-negative organisms. Uh, Listeria is Gram-positive, not Gram-negative, so I doubt that that wash has any effect on Listeria monocytogenes. I'm a PhD with microbiology as one of my areas of expertise.
This was just a modeling photo shoot for the reporterette. Love her outfits and her poses.
I wonder if she was the narrator. Her natural voice seems to be OK, but she has cultivated that horrible "vocal fry". All scratchy.
First world problem. Other countries just boil their frozen vegetables and e-coli is dead.
It's no surprise that this KEEPS happening. When you have big business they will find shortcuts.
Cows will grow ecoli in their stomachs if fed CORN. GRASS fed cows will not. Finding it cheaper in the short run for big farming is a huge savings to use animal manure. But how do you determine if cow manure is
GRASS or CORN fed. You DONT.
So at the crap table sorry no pun
You through the dice. And sometimes a 300 million dollar gamble happens.
On a micro farm growing up we would get major piles of manure from our local cow horse auction house in the winter. I always found it interesting to watch the piles smoke and steam off. My dad told me it was cooking. It heats up killing off ALL bad bacteria. Leaving a good broke down product. Great for the garden.
Sounds like your pushing GREEN manure on the fields. Inriched with possible ecoli.
That's why SOMETIMES major meat houses when butcher they will cut through the waist bag of a cow and manure waiste will spill on the equipment, meat and production should stop. Be cleaned and that meat be disposed of. But that dosnt always happen. Meat industry has gotten much better.
I am so glad to see a sensible, honest response finally. Big Agra is shifting the blame for profit as usual.
You got the best answer for where the ecoli came from. The video only ended up with no answer.
I can't keep watching this as CNN just has lost all credibility with me due to their partisanship
That's why I eat processed food.
The madness of global industrial food supply chain can go on for just that long and not much longer.
i don't even want to start on this topic!
I grow my own. I know not to poop on my lettuce.
As a teenager in the 70s I worked the lettuce fields in the
Holland Marsh every summer . We packed thousands of cases of it everyday . If you had to use the washroom you were taken by tractor to the main barn ... But then again we're not 3rd world people.....
Grow your own, easy to do.
wear a hair net, but shit in the field
Listeria is gram positive lol
spcornick good eye! I'm studying for an exam and when I heard him say that I got jolted and had to go back to my notes. But yep, listeria monocytogenes is gram positive!
Even in Mexico they use drops to kill bacteria on veggies. Soak for 15 min never have problems but those drops aren’t widespread here in Canada .
They poop on the lettuce?
Lettuce prey!
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Oh mah gosh but I love salad
Grow your own
Maddie Playz And I love spinach smoothies. What would I ever do without it. I stopped taking supplements, to get the vitamins from my greens, and other foods.
A good argument for doing away with illegal immigrant farm labor.
I’ve done farm work and I’m American. I would do it again. I’m not above hard work. 🇺🇸
Have you ever thought that it could be their water source is contaminated??? Taylor farms they have fields in yuma arizona and most of their water source is the colorado river, and runs several states and it could be dead animals all the way from the birth source of the river...
Contracting a food borne illness can be greatly reduced by some simple steps.
1 Keep your kitchen clean using antibacterial cleaning products.
2 Always wash your hands while preparing food
3 Never eat undercooked meats or eggs
4 Avoid organic produce.
#4 is really key. All the soy boys of the world scream for organic, but in reality chemical fertilizers won't cause these issues. They may cause other health issues though.
5. ignore everything idiots say on the internet!
antibacterials do NOTHING to help situations like this, all they do is increase antibiotic resistance
washing hands while preparing food shouldn't need to be said
undercooked meats or eggs are not the foods causing food poisoning (in my country raw eggs are a common food/drink ingredient & we don't vaccinate or refrigerate washed eggs or make any other attempt to stop salmonella in them, but we don't die from it either! Try focusing on the lettuce, where most of the food poisonings are actually happening!
organic produce is generally produced small scale & as such is easily tracked if contamination occurs, but it rarely does anyway, as one bit of contamination isn't spread to millions in machinery as has occurred here. Organic produce will also omit all the shit that will malfunction a human immune system & prevent it from killing off the nasties itself, not to mention it's high in vitamin C, which helps boost the body's own immune system so you don't get sick
@@lilaclizard4504 Yes. Also, there are natural, cheap sanitizing agents, such as vinegar or hydrogen peroxide.
@@dollyv7882 unfortunately a lot of those don't do much more than a placebo, I used to think they did & used them a lot, but when I started working with tissue culture, I wanted a natural alternative to bleach & tested them all in proper scientific conditions & was disappointingly surprised at how useless most actually were, the vinegar in particular, but just the act of washing alone is enough for the vast majority of stuff (I actually had trouble with my first rounds of testing because I didn't do controls & thought the vinegar, H2O2 etc were working, but then when I did controls, I found that just a water wash was removing most bacteria, fungus & mould from metal utensils without any extra treatments being needed. A little detergent or something with the ability to penetrate oil, along with water will clean nearly anything to cleaner than the air we breathe in a clean, outdoor environment :)
its bullshit they can put port potties out in the fields if they are really serious about stopping these outbreaks!!!
Only eat well cooked food
Even birds don't shit in their own nest......
In reality, In the fields, there are no porta potty during harvest time. If there is one, it will be a quarter mile away or more and when pickers have to go number 2 then they have no choice but to take dump it in the field. That's how you get e-coli.
I have read Haylee's story in a Reader's Digest magazine and I didn't expect it still affects her now.
Does the girl on dialysis still eat supermarket salad?
E coli is from people who do not wash their hands before gathering the produce.
Porta potties for aliens working the fields
For extra terrestrials, too!
I am growing my own. Have been for years and starting up again as the taste is out of the world. Organic because I manually control bugs. Ry it folks, it's great!
3(?) years ago Salinas Valley lettuce scare. They blamed it on a dairy 5 miles away but it was lazy honey bucket service dumping the sewage at the edge of the field.
I already know how it gets there. I’ve contracted companies that ended up using Latino workers, whose language skills were always limited. They did a great job but I had to clean up HUMAN excrement every single time! I would always tell them PLEASE, use our bathroom, we don’t mind but they never did. Now that’s one story of attic workers, gutter workers and painting company and in each case, I had a disgusting job after they left. Nothing seemed to deter the behavior, and no toilet paper either! Imagine what happens in fields when someone isn’t cleaning up after them.
maybe you should pay higher wages so that doesn't happen?
Lilac Lizard --I hired companies. That doesn’t have anything to do with them choosing outside to relieve themselves.
@@judywright4241 well I live in Australia, we pay $22 per hour upwards for all work in this country, including lettuce picking & we NEVER have anyone shitting in our lettuce! Our lettuce pickers walk off the job if they're not provided with high level toilets, with toiletpaper, soap etc & if the area isn't close to accommodation, they also expect to be provided with hotel level accommodation, with showers, toilets, high quality recreational facilities etc & anyone who fails to provide that will have to either pick the lettuce themself, or feed it to livestock that will pick it themselves.
There's a few dodgy companies out there providing workers for farmers with substandard facilities, using illegal workers, but authorities are always onto them & keep records of farms using this dodgy, cheap labour & continually return there until they get the message & start doing the right thing. Put simply, you wouldn't last in Australia! You can blame others all you like, but you know full well that you are hiring slave labour & so the buck stops with you! Pay them properly & you wouldn't get lettuce shitters!
And if you think you are paying them properly, then I suggest you hire an interpreter to have a conversation with some of the workers & ask them how much money THEY, not the company, are getting & what the conditions put on them are, because there's clearly no question that they are not being properly paid from what you describe & likely are being told by the company you hire & who have people that can actually communicate with them, that they are not permitted toilet breaks. Stop blaming others for the known problems that occur when you use slaves to do your work!
1:14 lady: how can u get so close to that.... Scientist: cuz they don't jump.... Scientists be awkward funny provide answers to every question 😂🤷🏽♂️
Once the ecoli is in the soil it becomes part of the actual plant. Washing only gets rid of surface ecoli.
Nobody ever died from oreos
A lot of farm workers poop in the fields. Sometimes the bathroom is a long ways away.
E. , salmonella, camphilobacter. They won't call any of it SHIT bacteria.
It sounds more scientific and elegant, somehow. The whole concept is shitty, don t bother.
Just grow your own. It's super easy. We never worry about getting sick.if you have a yard you have a mini farm.
It is meant to feed the masses not to be a better product, but when your immune system is low that is when anything can happen in your health, 1 out of 5 people will have this problem and could mean death.
I though E-Coli was going to be from when the driver of that truck took a dump at a field.
They say don't shit where you eat!
Amerocans have been doing it to all the world.
back in the 50s workers would give birth in the feild and get up and work. and the amount of sweat dripping on lettuce kept it fresh
Ken Soopen
Nasty!!
My wife washes greens in a salad spinner then spin spin spin.......... spin spin............ Makes those bacteria dizzy for days.
I've just read a news from Yahoo today 12/06/19. E.coli again! dam
When you go to grocery stores the produce is handled by everyone that HASN'T washed their hands. They squeeze and handle your food that is not sealed. Washing your food no matter if it's sealed or not is important for your health. Read up in using Hydrogen peroxide in cleaning your food.
People worry about the food infecting them, so why do they give babies their keys to play with and the babies put them in their mouth. Please don't tell me the keys don't have bacteria on them. If this is true, then I am thankful for the babies' sake. However, I doubt that keys are free from germs.
I like my veggies cooked
It comes from field workers taking a shit in the fields.
it's good to see farmers wearing hair nets out in the field
It
If you spray and then rinse the greens with colloidial silver, it will kill all bacteria on your food. Or, combine 1/4 cup of colloidial silver with distilled water in a glass mixing bowl for 5 minutes. Then rinse.
doesn't work when the bacteria is inside the lettuce like it is here
I've seen working conditions so bad, that going to work was a theat to my life! And thats working in production as a welder/fabricator! After not being able to find a job, I was forced back to the fields I left at 17 years of age and in my 30's ! Boy was I in for a world of hurt.......After two weeks, I was still sore! And it brought back memories of working the fields as a youngster and witnessing hard working people, just walk off by noon! Even me and two vans full of Chicanos ( American born Mexican decent) And out of 20 of us only mysekf and my twin,worked the our whole shift and only stopped doing that cause I found another job. ( as a roofer ) I've worked in landscaping, construction, all terribly hard if the pace is crazy! But nothing ever compared to working in the fields! The forman kept yelling at me to hurry up ( and I was in the middle of the pack ) and glancing around I can see the forman telling the packleaders to "help the older ladies " who were in the rear......and all of a sudden all the disabled, elderly and old woman were full caught up!....It's when I realized, what was being done " this was a concerted effort to ( NOT GET BEAT BY THE" POCHO " the local born ) and I hung in there and worked my ass off until I could keep the pace. But I'll never forget! Having to tell the forman to simmer down, cause I had been absent from them fields since 17yrs of age, and he was surprisingly astonished by the way I worked and he even asked me how old I was and I said 36 and he was even more agaspted, almost choking cause I guess he was about my age, but looked like ten years older......I definitely don't miss the burning of my eyes from the pesticides and the smell of the chemicals! And the poor woman having to beg to use the toilet and with out a doubt, they crap and piss on the crops, cause those formans are like slave drivers.....this strong woman in her 40's finally stood up to the guy and said " if you want to, dock my pay,go ahead! But I shouldn't have to beg you for my right! " I was proud of that lady. Sometimes I feel that the American economy was so entrenched in free labor ( slavery through the usery of its black captives and later replaced by the brown man) she's a living breathing entity and still susceptible to fits of racist rage against her unwanted, but overtly used, colonized citizens...... everytime a gringo has the gumption to run his mouth about "how I need to go back to my country! I just chuckle! Man! How the devil can be so self convinced! AND TOTALLY OBLIVIOUS TO THE FACT THAT THERE'S A GOD OF JUSTICE!
It is amazing that pre-cut lettuce doesn't turn brown for days after packaged, it must be magic.
It s because they don t cut it with metal knives.Metal oxidises lettuce.Try it at home.That s why chefs cut lettuce with their fingers.
I'm gonna spray all my produce with Lysol before eating it.
And I ll spray my lettuce with listering.I ll not bleach them because I don t want to go blonde inside
If you want to know how e-coli gets on lettuce, go to 5.5 mins. There's one or two sentences on the subject at that point.
And the real reason? Your food safety regs don't care a shit! Other countries have tracking systems in place & the ability to identify & isolate any farm responsible for an outbreak like this.
Just look at Australia with egg salmonella at the moment, identified after just a couple of hospitalisations, farm identified, put into quarantine, all eggs entering the system prior to quarantine recalled, new eggs remain on shelves & no issue to continue to buy & eat (although short term advice to cook them fully before eating while making 100% sure all sources have been eliminated from the system).
This is a system failure from a system designed to care more about protecting big industry than protecting people!