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Salmonella Rant

[Jul. 7th, 2008|03:46 pm]

[	Tags	\|	aliens, antibacterial, bell peppers, chicken, fda, food, france, onions, pizza, resistance, salmonella, tomatoes, ufos	]
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Ok, knock it off with the food freakout thing and put the fucking tomatoes back on my pizza.

Spring onions are responsible for Salmonella almost as much as chicken-related food, and no government agency is going out of their way to warn you about that, and Papa Murphys is till dumping them on your pizza. I'm as worried about Salmonella as I am about alien invasion.

Come to think of it, I've seen UFOs* more than I've had salmonella poisoning. I think the FDA's Tomato fuckup(it wasn't the tomatoes) is all a big plot to see how well we'll respond to food shortages. Stock up on bell peppers, folks.

I'll take some Salmonella with my veggies, thanks, and don't wash my food with bleach, assholes. We've already got antibacterial resistant strains of Salmonella showing up. We're better off taking our chances, just like we always have.

Don't make me fucking grow my own food, or no one gets websites: I'll be too busy FARMING.

The French are far more cavalier about food 'hygiene'-Ask a French person how many times THEY've had food poisoning. -Bring a translator. I was there for a month, ate everything put in front of me, drank raw milk, and didn't even get the shits-this may have something to do with the amount of cheese I consumed. Still.

Actually, here: http://www.cureresearch.com/s/salmonella_food_poisoning/stats-country.htm
Half a percent recorded here in the US, France, almost exactly the same, negligible if you consider margin of error.

At least give me the OPTION to take my chances. Oh, and tomato farmers, pizza joints, grocery stores, everyone negatively affected by the Tomato scare: Sue the fuck out of the FDA, for everyone's sakes.

-UFOs in the literal sense, meaning UNIDENTIFIED Flying Objects. If I saw a flying saucer, I'd say "Holy fuck, a flying saucer!" having pointed out what it was, I'd have to remove the U, making it an FO, or perhaps keeping the U to mean unusual, though cut to the chase and call it a Flying Saucer or, if you're REALLY sure, or it isn't discus shaped, an Alien Spacecraft.

Anyway, haven't seen any flying saucers or outside of kitchen-based temper tantrums or track & field meets.

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dangerous_beans
2008-07-08 03:38 am (UTC)

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Y'know, I'm leaning towards my husband and I trying to buy an acreage just so I can learn how to grow my own food. I think in the long-term it would be smarter and healthier.

Unfortunately, I have no idea how to prepare it for long-term storage over winter months.

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From: (Anonymous)
2008-07-08 04:05 am (UTC)

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Unless you have a concrete room where you pump out all the oxygen and replace it with CO2(like the apple merchants do), or a damn good greenhouse, you're limited to seasonal food, but there's a lot of information out there about how you can grow and harvest all year. Jerusalem artichokes(not to be confused with the thistle relatives) are the first year-round food that comes to mind. After that, dried beans, corn and peas.

I think a garden would be really rewarding and fin on occasion, but I don't have the time or the land.

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sarmonster
2008-07-08 04:06 am (UTC)

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^ Sorry, me.

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dreadcptflint
2008-07-08 04:41 am (UTC)

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Well in a couple of weeks I will have my tomotoes and not that crap you get from the stores. :P I got sick of what the stores were passing off as tomotoes and took matters into my own hand last year. You are only see more salmonella and the like from corp farms in the coming years.

Oh yeah for storage, there is canning, freezing, drying and smoking. Take your pick. If I want fresh off season then I will have to start doing a green house.

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sarmonster
2008-07-08 05:18 am (UTC)

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Even I have a tomato plant. It's only just now flowering, I can't wait...yummy patio vine tomatoes.

Canning and freezing TOTALLY slipped my mind. Our freezer os the size of a shoebox, but canning...hmmm.

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dreadcptflint
2008-07-08 03:19 pm (UTC)

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Most people forget about those old school methods that work. If I remember correctly the italians had a technique where they dried their romas on the vine so they could reconsitute them later for sauces. Depending on how mobil you are wanting to have your home, you might want to explore the drying and smoking routes or at least stash your canned goods at various locations.

I am aspiring to have a place big enough to build a root cellar.

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jaxi
2008-07-12 02:02 pm (UTC)

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My honest opinion? We're doing it to ourselves cause everyone's cutting back to save their bottom line. The dangers of mass marketed food. :( Trying really hard to grow my own garden this year, with June being so crappy we'll be lucky to get a harvest. >:(

JC and I will be making Wenatchee area fruit stand run this Summer and I will be canning! If you are interested n willing to kick in a bit for gas or canning sealy lids, I am most happy to can whatever you'd like us to pick up. Did 6 quarts of apricots this week...we'll be heading back in a few weeks for apples and veggies.

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