"Peppermint Patootie" > wrote in message
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> 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.

I thought so too. But this person was so freaked out about it and kept
saying I shouldn't have bought them to begin with.