Not surprisingly, from cow manure. The next step involves finding out how it infected the spinach.
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And it’s a damn good thing too, because no one wanted to deal with the political fallout of assigning blame on illegal immigrant farm workers laboring under unsanitary conditions. Just too big of a can of worms to even consider looking there for the source of a fecaly transmitted bug.
Hey gasman, perhaps a little knowledge and research is in order before you put the blame on the outbreak on illegals. Spinich planting, harvesting, and processing in that area is 100 percent mechanized. Farm machines cut the spinich and dump it into large bins that are immediatly refrigerated and taken to the processing plant. This is in contrast to Lettuce which is mostly hand picked and packed. There are many suspects in this outbreak, wildlife wondering the cattle areas and spinich fields, processing machines, dust, but not humans in this particular case.
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