E. Coli produce outbreaks related to GOP immigration tampering? [View All]

[gulliver]

Has anyone connected the dots on this? The GOP started tampering with U.S. immigration policy last year in order to try to make an election issue of it this year. States like California have seen reduced availability of migrant workers. Remember that picture of a pile of rotting pears?

We didn't have E. Coli outbreaks before the GOP started their immigration fiddling as far as I can remember. Has GOP political manipulation affected the food supply? Has their corruption trickled down to the biological level?

On edit, more:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/29/health/main2053707.shtml

The link talks about previous outbreaks, but it also talks about farmers needing to get serious about E. Coli in their fields. My point is simple. Getting serious in the fields means labor. There has been reduced labor thanks to the GOP. Ergo, reduced seriousness. If pears rot in the fields, maybe E. Coli prevention is also lagging.

It's never a question of whether a problem existed before and after a particular action. Invariably the problems that exist have always existed to a degree. It's a question of how bad the problem was before and after. I'm arguing that on the face of it, the effect of this E. Coli outbreak is far larger than before.