Attack of the Killer Tomatoes
Salmonella reported in tomatoes.
by Jeff Davis
It seems like there’s a new story of Americans being poisoned by our produce every month. According to Reuters, “Florida’s tomato industry is in complete collapse and growers in California and Mexico are having trouble selling their crops, as U.S. regulators hunt the source of a salmonella outbreak linked to certain tomato varieties….In Florida, the No. 1 U.S. tomato producer, $40 million worth of tomatoes will rot unless the U.S. Food and Drug Administration quickly traces the source of the outbreak and clears the state’s produce, an industry official said… ‘We’ve had to stop packing, stop picking,’ said Reggie Brown, executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange. ‘The stuff that should have been harvested over the weekend won’t survive more than another day or so. The stuff we have in storage is getting riper every minute and at some point it will have to be disposed of,’ Brown said.”
Perhaps the tons of rotten tomatoes could be sold to irate Americans to throw at the incredibly lame political candidates, who have been upchucked by the two-party system for 2008. (more…)















