The latest in the continuing saga of the great FDA Salmonella hunt -- Mexican jalapeños

[lpbk2713]

Link: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jFyDyMJjsAW0XxBNGpIldKhhToOgD9253QMO1



This just in ....

"Domestically grown products are not tracing back at all to the outbreak," he said in an interview with The Associated Press. "On Monday, we didn't know exactly where they all were coming from. Today (Friday), we're certain these are coming from Mexico."


US tomato and pepper growers lost well over $100 Million with picked crops that were dumped and plants that were plowed under before BushCo FDA & CDC could give them a clean bill of health.

Will someone please cue Ms Emily Latella?

[rucky]

1. Nevermind.

[Hydra]

2. "It just COULDN'T be the free trade doing it!"

"That would be a violation of our religious tenets!"

[spanone]

3. fda to america:

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[aquart]

4. Can the growers sue?

[lpbk2713]

5. Looks like they might try, but it's a long shot.

Link: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/nation/stories/072508dnnattomato.44f1c2.html


"Clearly, the FDA has done a very poor job at tracking this outbreak," said Rep. Dennis Cardoza, D-Calif. "They blamed the wrong industry."

It looks like most agree the Feds dropped the ball on this one.

But I tend to think the main issue is --- if everyone sued the BushCo Administration for stupidity and ineptitude in so many
different areas of involvement the Courts would be crowded to the rafters and the Treasury would be bankrupt in no time at all.

So the answer would have to be, YES, the Federal government caused them damages. But, NO, the check is NOT in the mail.

[dailykoff]

6. I think the idea was to break the Florida farm labor movement

which was making a little too much noise down in the swamps and environs.

Coincidentally, I heard a Pacifica story about intel penetration of a Florida university group organizing a boycott of either Taco Bell or Burger King to protest their gross exploitation of their tomato pickers (through contractors, as per usual). People were attending their meetings and phone and online conference calls using phone numbers and e-mails tracable to law enforcement, corporate PR firms, etc.

Then about a month later, the salmonella story broke, and that's the last I heard about any boycotts.

[EFerrari]

7. I think that is a really good guess.

Because slavery is too good to stamp out.

[dailykoff]

8. It has all the hallmarks doesn't it.

Create a huge scare, ruin as many lives as possible, then blame the whole diversion on incompetence. Maybe some hapless Buscho client like Brownie will take a dive, or maybe not.

[EFerrari]

10. The laborers in South Florida were getting too successful.

Slavery Is Alive and Well in the US
By Suzi Steffen
AlterNet.org

Monday 08 October 2007
The new book "Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the Global Economy," goes after the US companies that support slave labor.

What do you call it when those who cross the Mexican-U.S. border get charged thousands of dollars for a ride to a job where their employer makes them pay rent for unspeakably bad living conditions and board for the food they can only buy at the company store and where that employer patrols with dogs, trucks and thugs so the workers can't leave?

John Bowe calls it slavery. And it's happening in the United States right now, he says. Bowe's newest book, Nobodies: Modern American Slave Labor and the Dark Side of the Global Economy, makes the case using three specific cases and geographical areas to show just how much workers in the U.S. get undermined and hurt by these practices.

He's written about work before; he co-edited the book Gig: Americans Talk About Their Jobs. Besides co-writing the screenplay for the movie Basquiat, Bowe has won many journalism awards. But from a tip he got while writing Gig, he began to pursue this topic, and he's been working on it for over six years now.


http://www.truthout.org/article/slavery-is-alive-and-well-us

[ColbertWatcher]

9. It looks guilty to me...