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"ThePsyko" > wrote in message
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> 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
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