"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>I try to buy organic and local when I can. Obviously bananas do not grow
>here and for some reason our grapes are mostly from Mexico. I've seen
>oranges from Australia.
>
> Because the other two who live here are going camping this week, I opted
> not to buy a box of produce. But they need to bring a lunch with them.
> So I decided to get tomatoes and lettuce to put on the sandwiches.
>
> The only organic tomatoes this store had were from Mexico. I sort of
> thought twice before buying them because of this swine flu thing, but
> bought them anyway.
>
> But then someone I was talking to online freaked when I told him and said
> he thought I shouldn't eat them.
>
> Would you buy them? Would you eat them?


Of course I would eat them. I would wash them on the outside first,
though, like usual. That's not how swine flu is spread, from produce. It
is spread from people coughing in the air.
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