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![]() grizzly wrote: > Mexico's Killer Scallions > > 2006-12-11 > > Suspected link between recent E. Coli outbreak and illegal immigrant > farm labor > > by Jeff Davis > > It's not generally understood that in addition to diseased illegal > immigrants and bizarre fauna (including giant African water rats, > killer bees and Burmese pythons), the United States imports a large > amount of its food from the Third World, especially the many products > which supply the fast food restaurants which now form the basis of the > American diet. The number of greasy burgers, oily slices of pizza, and > mystery meat tacos and burritos that overweight Americans stuff into > their maws like hogs every week must run into the billions. The > immense fast food profits (not to mention medical industry profits > from fast food-related obesity) are so gargantuan that they can only > be called super-sized. But, like the Latino gangs and the killer bees, > Third World food can be deadly. > > Fast food gorgers in the Northeast have been dropping like flies due > to a bad shipment of Mexican scallions to their local Taco Bells. The > many news articles are cagey about the actual source of the bacteria- > poisoned vegetables. Breitbart says: "The scallions suspected in the > E. coli outbreak linked to Taco Bell came from a Southern California > grower." This, of course, ignores the fact that Southern California is > now a de facto part of Mexico, and that the vegetables were picked, > sorted, packed, and loaded by illegal Mexican laborers who probably > had all kinds of diseases, and last washed their hands in 1999. > Breitbart continues: "Taco Bell removed scallions from all 5,800 of > its restaurants Wednesday after preliminary tests linked them to the > E. coli bacteria. State and federal investigators also are > scrutinizing other non-meat ingredients on the Taco Bell menu, such as > cheese, lettuce, yellow onions and tomatoes, as they try to pin down > the source." One anonymous source said that FBI agents wished to > question that loud-mouthed little Chihuahua who used to do the Taco > Bell ads on TV, but that he was unavailable having allegedly > disappeared after a salary dispute-- although his dog collar was > rumored to have been found around a burrito grande. > > Breitbart goes on to say that: "At least 46 confirmed cases of E. coli > sickness linked to Taco Bell have been reported in New Jersey, New > York and Pennsylvania, and at least five people remained hospitalized, > including an 11-year-old boy in stable condition with kidney damage. > Federal officials said there are possible cases in Delaware and > Connecticut, as well." Damn. That's a lot of poisoned onions. > > Onions aren't the only deadly vegetables now circulating to American > tables, courtesy of the deteriorating hygienic and processing > standards in Mexifornia. We learn from another news article that: > "This is the second E. coli scare to hit Ready Pac in the past four > months. In September, spinach with the Ready Pac label was among > dozens of brands pulled from the shelves when federal authorities > traced a nationwide E. coli outbreak to a San Juan Bautista processing > plant that bags its spinach and dozens of other brands. The spinach > was traced to California's Salinas Valley, on the Central Coast". They > also add a little teaser: "California is the nation's largest supplier > of green onions, but by December, as winter sets in, the vegetable is > typically imported from Mexico. Tainted green onions from Mexico were > blamed for a 2003 outbreak of hepatitis A in western Pennsylvania that > was also traced to a Mexican restaurant. Four people died and more > than 600 people were sickened after eating the green onions at a Chi- > Chi's." > > Agriculture is a labor-intensive industry, in which the family farm > has pretty much disappeared because they are unable to complete with > the corporate agribusiness which has pretty much taken over America's > food production. Instead of training a well-paid and motivated > American workforce to harvest America's crops, assisted by high > technology, including robotics and advanced processing machinery, > these agribusinesses import huge numbers of Third World peons, mostly > Mexican, to work like dogs at manual stoop labor for fourteen hours a > day for below minimum wage. Instead of sending them back to Mexico > when the crops are in, they turn the Latinos loose to find other > manual labor jobs if they can, and to become a burden- possibly a > criminal one- if they can't. As fewer and fewer Americans stay as > foremen and supervisors, being replaced by Mexicans, all standards of > professionalism and hygiene and sanitation and health inspection in > the food processing industry simply disappear. You use Third World > labor, you get Third World work performance, and White people keel > over dead over their burritos. > > And don't even get me STARTED on what's in those burgers, due to the > beef we now import from Bolivia and Brazil. One of these days Jack in > the Box or Mickey D's is going to get hold of a bad batch of diseased > meat from the Third World and it will be like the Black Death has > returned in a Styrofoam box with ketchup and pickles. Is not diversity wonderful? The American Eagle, the only bird that craps in it's own nest. ted |
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