"W. Baker" > wrote in message
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> 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



Well said, Wendy!

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