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Default Would you buy produce from Mexico?

Julie Bove > wrote:

: "Peppermint Patootie" > wrote in message
: news : > 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.

Peope freak out about all kinds of things. Have you noticed that the TV
keeps telling us that you can't get swine flu form eating pork? they do
this because idiots will think everything will be contaminated. that is
why helth officials are so hesitant to send out alerts. All kinds of
nuts strt worrying and filling up emergency rooms and phone lines, etc. I
suppose you should avoid someone whose Grandmother came from Mexico too.
that is the kind of thing that happens when people jump to conclucions.

Wendy-kind of fed up with alarmists