Dozens sickened in new multistate salmonella outbreak, this time traced to pre-cut melons

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6. Factory Farms

I would bet that this is just the latest outbreak due to factory farming.

The intensive farming practices produce so much animal waste that there's no place for it to go and it gets dumped into the water supply and literally sprayed onto crops. It's ridiculous that CAFOs are allowed to do this, but here we are.

"All of the e. coli and salmonella food outbreaks by the US Centers for Disease Control in 2017 originated from non-animal products, likely the result of food crops being contaminated with manure or manure-tainted water."

Report Available at https://www.foodandwaterwatch.org/insight/urgent-case-ban-factory-farms

An older article from the Atlantic:

"Put simply, the cause of the current salmonella outbreak is industrial-scale factory farming, which has also been the cause of virtually every instance of bacterial food contamination the country has experienced in recent years."

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2010/09/where-the-salmonella-really-came-from/62585/