Why the ‘deadliest food outbreak’ of the decade is yet another food scare campaign

Listeria does not grow on cantaloupes

Ethan A. Huff,
Natural News
Friday, September 30, 2011

Disease outbreaks associated with the US food supply have become an all-too-common occurrence these days, with at least six major outbreaks having been reported just this year alone. And with the most recent listeria outbreak affecting Colorado-sourced cantaloupes, where at least 13 people have died and 70 others have been sickened thus far, officials and the media are once again working the public into a frenzy about food safety.


On September 14, 2011, Holly, Co.-based Jensen Farms announced a recall of more than four million Rocky Ford cantaloupes it had shipped to at least 17 US states between July 29, 2011, and September 10, 2011. The recalled cantaloupes are said to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (listeria), a bacterium not typically associated with produce, and customers are being urged to discard the dangerous fruit.

Since the recall announcement was made, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the mainstream media have been repeatedly warning the public about the tainted melons, and citing purported death and injury numbers to apparently scare the public into paying closer attention to the issue.

On one hand, such warnings are necessary and helpful in preventing further injuries and deaths, and can be considered a public health benefit. On the other hand, they conveniently help promote the government’s agenda to seize more control over the food supply through expanded “food safety” regulations.

Factory farming is responsible for spreading disease to produce

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Strangely missing from all the hubbub surrounding the cantaloupe outbreak is any talk whatsoever about what actually caused the outbreak in the first place. Listeria does not just appear on produce, after all — it is typically introduced by outside sources like factory animal feedlots, whose manure cesspools run off and contaminate nearby agriculture fields on a regular basis.

Remember the massive Iowa egg recall from last year? Filthy conditions at the facilities where the eggs had been produced were, of course, responsible for the salmonella outbreak. And yet the FDA tried to use the incident to push for more power over the food supply, including the passage of S. 510, the infamous “food safety” bill (http://www.naturalnews.com/egg_reca…).

As far as the cantaloupes are concerned, a nearby factory farm is likely the source of the listeria outbreak as well. And yet instead of fully investigating the situation to determine the precise cause, government authorities will likely use this outbreak to push for even more regulatory control.






 
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19 Responses to “Why the ‘deadliest food outbreak’ of the decade is yet another food scare campaign”

  1. Buy local!

    • Ben: More and more folks need to begin a greenhouse of their own and grow what you like to eat and also grow what you like to trade with a friend or neighbor. Remember that even a little “hoop-house” 12′ x 30′ will provide more tomatoes than you can eat, and can. So… go get’em, and when some phuck from the fed comes and tells you that “you can’t do that” you have a new source of fertilizer.

      Hopefully that person will weigh in at say 150-200 pounds, ’cause that is enough shit for the entire season.

      Take the bones into the desert and let the coyotes spread them about… coyotes do a wonderful job of that.

      • lol, Fedilizer. Lemme know if it makes the tomatoes taste funny.

  2. On the bright side, at least the food scares get people thinking about what they eat.

    Melons, especially cantaloupe and honeydew have a very high mold count, so they should not be considered staple foods anyway. They are forage crops fit mainly for environments where little else will grow. Of the melons, watermelon is far superior, though I would avoid the unnatural seedless varieties; spitting watermelon seeds off the porch into the garden is half the fun. ^_^

    Still, I won’t trust the CDC until they list pharmaceuticals and abortions as leading causes of death.

  3. Listeria, as any other OUTSIDE contaminate, CANNOT grow and live INSIDE fruits, vegetables or Eggs…..
    IT would have to be PUT THERE after growth!

    Don’t live the LIES!

    Enjoy!

    • P.S.
      Wash YOUR food, DON’T EAT THEIR’S!

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    We are not personally exempted! Reality is manifested by our thoughts and anticipations. Our first step to victory is inward. Who are we, what do we really want, and why do we believe what we believe?

    It would be healthy to type your answers in NotePad, and pick at them mercilessly, making improvements through revision and revision until it crystalizes in your mind. Do it again, day after day. The idea, announced long ago, is that the unexamined life is not worth the living. Writing is many things, but it is also self-examination.

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    Victory begins in our hearts. Victory belongs to those whose consciousness is equal to the task. And what is consciousness? Consciousness is the awareness of the true nature of reality that we bring to solving life’s challenges.

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    To fill in what is missing, copy the following into your collections, as many are now doing with our postings, as it will serve us well in making a plan, and a vision, for the future:

    Reality, not someone’s idea of truth, is the only foundation for an advanced civilization. The masses have little knowledge of reality other than that it is a word in the dictionary, and lexicographers with religious leanings define reality as truth. In fact, the two are totally opposite. Reality is a perpetually unfinished book because it is written by each of us, eternally dreaming our personal realities. Reality is nothing but dreamers and dreams, and though our life dreams come and go, our true selves as dreamers go on forever, always learning more about love, always moving closer to God.

    Therefore, to fill in the gap in knowledge that guides us to a brighter future………

    Judge civilization by its consciousness.
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    As soon as we accept this,

    We change civilization by changing its consciousness.
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  5. We can’t suport these gmo foods that are on the shelves in all the stores.. Myself i have another
    order of Emerald Balance, and Greens 8000 on the way.. These are great healthy products at affordable prices.. and instead of eating unhealthy foods and supporting the big corporations, we can have these healthy products and suport the good fight.

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  6. The FDA Food Safety Modernization Act (H.R. 2751) is a federal statute signed into law by President Barack Obama on January 4, 2011. The law authorizes the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to increase inspections of many domestic food facilities

    The HHS will require registration and payment of a fee by any “person (excluding farms and restaurants) who manufactures, processes, packs, distributes, receives, holds, or imports an article of food.” Individuals who partake in food handling without official registration are subject to a maximum 10 year prison sentence. Registration requires each facility which produces or handles food to maintain records relating to food safety.

    Specific provisions in the law governing small-farm and farmer’s markets provide for FDA authority to exempt farms engaged in low or no risk processing or from co-mingling activities from new regulatory requirements or to modify particular regulatory requirements for such farming operations.

    Codex Alimentarious

    The Codex Alimentarius officially covers all foods, whether processed, semi-processed or raw, but far more attention has been given to foods that are marketed directly to consumers.

    THe bottom line is we are being told what to eat… who can grow it… how it must be grown…. you know the next step will be who can purchase it.

  7. Listeria Hysteria. Watch how the government will take this story and blow it up banning raw foods

    – Mike

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  8. Natural food is dangerous to your health as long as corporate govt wants to kill innocent people to get their message out only big agra is the way to eat.

    These people have been caught posioning our food six ways to sunday and nothing is done to bring them to justice.

  9. Listeria can be found in soil. That has nothing to do with unhygenic ‘factory farms’.

    Many raw foods can become contanimated with listeria.

    • Radiation can be drawn up into plants, lookout Japan.

  10. It seems interesting to me that all the new food regulations designed to protect the public from things like Raw milk and dangerous produce at city markets. City Markets are where honest hardworking people sell off the food they cannot eat or store for the winter. The New FDA food bill tells us that if you grow your own food its dangerous and contaminated. When I read this story it occured to me that our government is once again lying to us. Since 1964 I have been eating family grown vegetables grown by my grandfather, my parents, and even myself, not once have I gotten sick or contracted any disease. It does make me wonder about the goverments motives in this situation. My conclusion is that the U.S. government would like for us to be come slaves to the corporate grocery. The new law allows only for the companies they choose to sell you food. In this mannner they keep you on their string you are no longer free you are a puppet. This is not the freedom the founding fathers envisioned. This is not the freedom I fight for everyday as a private police officer. If you love your country, make your feelings known to your congressman and senators. Tell them its time for a change

    • My story is the same, been eating food my family grows yearly now for 40 yrs, out of over 30 family members, never sick.

    • i too eat home grown food and have never gotten sick, it is the big, unsanitary farms, not the little guy that causes these out brakes. as far as being free, america is nothing more than a british corporate colony and always has been. we did not win your freedom from britain in 1781, just look at the treaty of paris that was signed in 1783 and you will see what i mean.

  11. Cantalope must be good for you or else they would not advertising the need to stop eating it. Either way tell all college kids to drop out, that will get thier attn:

  12. Try unwashed Mexican slave-farm workers

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