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Related: About this forumThe Science Is Clear: Dirty Farm Water Is Making Us Sick
Old article but relevant due to the romaine lettuce recall.
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William Whitt suffered violent diarrhea for days. But once he began vomiting blood, he knew it was time to rush to the hospital. His body swelled up so much that his wife thought he looked like the Michelin Man, and on the inside, his intestines were inflamed and bleeding.
For four days last spring, doctors struggled to control the infection that was ravaging Whitt, a father of three in western Idaho. The pain was excruciating, even though he was given opioid painkillers intravenously every 10 minutes for days.
His family feared they would lose him.
I was terrified. I wouldnt leave the hospital because I wasnt sure he was still going to be there when I got back, said Whitts wife, Melinda.
Whitt and his family were baffled: How could a healthy 37-year-old suddenly get so sick? While he was fighting for his life, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention quizzed Whitt, seeking information about what had sickened him.
Finally, the agencys second call offered a clue: They kept drilling me about salad, Whitt recalled. Before he fell ill, he had eaten two salads from a pizza shop.
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https://www.wired.com/story/the-science-is-clear-dirty-farm-water-is-making-us-sick/?fbclid=IwAR1hhjToQA3B0uT1VCZpBo1Sq2o7gnfw69vSFWA-3yD28Fdk8ZCorYRhp9w
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)Profits first.
SWBTATTReg
(22,112 posts)that they always seem to have a problem in pinpointing the exact source of contamination, the state...this time around, it's California...last time it was New Mexico. I thought in the age of computer tracking and the like, that every single item in the markets is tracked from start to finish, so why the discrepancies in sourcing these poisoned crops? I know that in MO, they tried to pass legislation that 'protects' farmers and the like (and not consumers), do these states have similar laws? Where's the USDA in all of this?