Who here really believes "Wild Pigs " started the E-coil epidemic ?

[bahrbearian]

I thought Rush hated spinach.

[madokie]

1. thats why he was pissing on it.

[undeterred]

2. I thought it was flying monkeys.

[bahrbearian]

5. Isn't Rove the one that controls Flying Monkeys

[undeterred]

6. They live in his butt.

:bounce:

[Double T]

3. When wild pigs fly, I might believe IT.

[havocmom]

4. Thought it was traced to cattle up the road

What, the rancher's insureance agent balked at paying claims?

[bahrbearian]

7. Today its wallowing wild pigs.

[havocmom]

15. Yeah, pigs don't carry liability insurance

So, who was the lab tech that found moo poop?

Pigs in a field of veggies do more than just shit. There would be whole tracks of the spinach pretty obviously chomped and tromped. The farmers didn't notice that?

I smell a rat... javalinas you can smell a long way off.

[Robbien]

16. Well the hole in the ozone layer was blamed on cattle

so this time they are going to blame the pigs for spreading the dirt around.

Every dumb animal is going to be blamed for all the environmental damage being done by the wealthy capitalists. They won't tell the bigcos to stop causing all the harm, so they put the blame on creatures who cannot say a word in their own defense.

[kestrel91316]

8. Wild pigs didn't "start" it. They were just the vector for transmission.

The cattle operation up the road is undoubtably at fault, because this bug is harbored by cattle who themselves are not sickened by it. They just serve as an asymptomatic source in the environment. I suspect the wild pigs did what pigs will do and ingested some cattle manure while scrounging around, and then the E. coli replicated in the pigs and they pooped it out into the spinach field.

They need to get those cattle cleaned up and quit worrying about the damned pigs.

[bahrbearian]

13. I am sure it started by mans feet rather then pigs feet.

[leftofthedial]

9. only if "wild pigs" is a euphemism for repukes

[Parche]

10. pigs

Wasn't it 'Pigs on the Wing'???

[Retrograde]

11. feral pigs are common in some parts of California

They're big pests in Marin County (n. of San Francisco) and surrounding areas, but I don't think there are a lot of them in the Salinas Valley, where the spinach comes from. I could, of course, be wrong, but I'd expect cattle contamination to be more likely.

[Tempest]

12. They won't dare blame it on cattle

It would cause all kinds of panic in the meat and milk markets.

But I agree with you on that cattle are most likely to blame.

[nealmhughes]

14. I assumed that it was from the lack of sanitary facilities for the seasonal field workers.

Or else their portapotties being emptied right into the irrigation canals, if they even have them.

Now I've never been to the San Joaquin Valley, but I would assume that the growers are not the most generous with their indentured peasants...