Sorry in advance for the rant, but it’s a bit of a pet peeve of mine when someone asks a question and gets an answer for a completely different question. They specifically asked for salads made by decent companies and you’ve told them to go and buy the ingredients at a market. They basically asked what wattage of lightbulb would be best for their lamp and you’ve recommended a great candlemaker.
I get that in a perfect world we’d all only eat locally-grown produce from small farms and suppliers or grow our own food, but we don’t all have that luxury. Because of economic and social pressures, we often have to make choices we wouldn’t like to make.
Maybe this person doesn’t have the time and energy to travel to a market just to buy lettuce or to make their own salad; maybe that’s cost-prohibitive for them; maybe they live in a food desert; maybe the local grocer is 5 minutes away while their nearest market is an hour’s drive; or maybe they’re looking for a type of lettuce that isn’t grown locally so that they can make dishes that are culturally appropriate for them.
Someone else in the thread said that Earthbound organics, Costco's brand, is also Taylor farms (note I didn't verify their statement). Costco does seem to hold their produce to a higher standard than everyone else and don't seem to be part of this shitty situation, but that's not helping if your goal is to boycott.
We have a Gotham Greens grow house in my city, and I know they have operations in several areas. They only sell in markets they grow in, so the produce never has to travel far. I'm sure there are similar operations scattered across the country. But if you can, farmers markets are where it's at.
First we didn't buy their lettuce because it was contaminated with parasites. Then we stopped buying their lettuce because they're f'ing MAGA Republicans.
Gotta love all the "just grow your own!" comments and the lack of awareness about how analogous it is to "just pull yourself up by your bootstraps!"
Or maybe not a lack of awareness, who knows what trolls, bots and influences lurk on lemmy, pushing conservative victim blame. Worked on reddit for plastic straws and personal carbon footprints.
But I have space for a large vegetable garden. Because I'm a rural weirdo. Not everyone has that space but more importantly, gardens take work, and time, and yes, money. Someone who is working two jobs to keep an apartment isn't going to have time to take care of a garden, even if they wanted to. We were supposed to have a society that allowed for people to do jobs other than agriculture.
I propose a federal agency that is tasked with inspecting drugs and food in the US to make sure they're safe. Wouldn't that be cool.
My parents keep a large garden. Used to be my grandparents', who relied on it for half their food.
It's a lot of work. It's worth it where I am cause vegetables at the supermarket are often so full of pesticides they taste like gasoline. It's literally a problem money can't solve. But man is it a lot of work... I don't know what will happen when they get too old to do it anymore. I'm not sure I can do it.
Now you aren't going to trivially have enough to be a staple of your diet or anything, but if lettuce at the store is a problem, you could at least have a few leaves to add some to a few dishes while the issue is worked in the supply chain.
My kid just has a single lettuce plant and pulls a few leaves off to eat with something once in a while. It doesn't need much active care or anything.
At one point my kid had an indoor hydroponic garden going that offered up a bit more vegetation to eat, but keeping that thing maintained was a hassle.
Most people handle the infection easily. Its dangerous to the immunodeficient, infants and the elderly.
The main risk is from dehydration. So the first recommended treatment is over-the-counter anti-diarrheal medications and drinking lots of fluids.
If it lasts for more than a week or you suffer from symptoms of dehydration (clammy skin, dizziness, not peeing etc) you'll need to seek urgent medical care. Someplace that can give you an IV.
Not a medical DR, I just play one occasionally for shits and giggles. So this could be correct or a bunch of bullshit.
Someone please tell me this isn't just a simple case of this administration telling the FDA to ignore and reverse their accurate findings because the company being impacted is a big MAGA doner?
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