On 31 Oct 2006 I stormed the castle called alt.food.vegan and heard
Jason Johnson cry out in
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> In article > , ThePsyko
> > wrote:
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> On 31 Oct 2006 I stormed the castle called alt.food.vegan and heard
> Jason Johnson cry out in
> ...
>
> > In article >, Bob
> > > wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 18:12:19 -0700, (Jason
> > Johnson) wrote:
> >
> > > I have yet to see a field of vegetables that had cows
> > >wandering in it. The cows would eat the vegetables.
> >
> > You may have inadvertently stumbled close to the truth. Current
> > suggestion (news a couple days ago) is that the E coli O157:H7 may
> > have been transmitted by wild pigs that got into the field -- after
> > breaking down fences. (I don't know details -- just news story.)
>
>
> Apparently there was a herd of cows nearby, seperated from the
> spinach field by fences. They found part of the fence had been
> broken and evidence that feral pigs had used those holes to move
> between the fields. They also recently found that very strain of
> E.Coli in the intenstines of one of the pigs that was found dead
> nearby.
>
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> I was a raised on a farm and we had several pigs. We released the pigs
> from the pen every morning and locked them back in the pens at the end
> of the day. Those pigs would eat anything. They would even eat their
> own fecal material if it became mixed with the food that we fed to
> them. We had to kill one of the pigs since it ate some flashlight
> batteries that someone accidently placed in the can of food (we called
> it "slop") that we fed to them. We never thru away any food--we gave
> it to the pigs. Perhaps some of those feral pigs ate some of the fecal
> material while they were also eating the spinach. That might be the
> reason they found E. Coli in the intestines of one of the pigs that
> was found dead nearby. Do you believe the farm workers should have
> been tested for E. Coli? Jason
>
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I am more inclined to believe the pigs ate the bovine fecal matter which
contained teh E. Coli and then passed it along onto the spinach
--
ThePsyko
Public Enemy #7