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Default Would you buy produce from Mexico?

In article >,
"Julie Bove" > wrote:

> 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?


Is Swine flu transmitted on produce? I'd thought that it was
transmitted through contact.

I'd wash the tomatoes and then eat them.

PP