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http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?secti ... id=4843013


(Long Island - WABC, December 11, 2006) - There is new information
about the E. coli outbreak, linked to Taco Bell restaurants. White
onions are now being tested for a different strain of E.coli
...
Long Island reporter Emily Smith has the story from Seaford, where she
talked to one of the first Long Island victims who may have gotten
sick after eating at a Taco Bell.
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Varriale says its all from a vegetarian taco salad she ate in Seaford
on November 19. Since then, that Taco Bell and a number of others have
been temporarily shut down and inspected.
...
"This is not a joke," Varriale said. "This is a very severe illness,
and I'm just happy that no one, that we know of, has died because of
it."

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http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-l ... -headlines


A Seaford vegetarian Monday became the latest person stricken with
E.coli from Taco Bell to sue the restaurant chain.

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Varriale, a self-described housewife who volunteers for animal rescue
agencies, said she and her husband ate a take-out order from Taco Bell
at their home Nov. 19. Ed Varriale ate a beef chalupa and did not
become ill, he said.

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"Yes like I said it all boils down to morals. What you think is right doesn't make a person wrong because they think different " X-Black

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Theresa

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"Yes like I said it all boils down to morals. What you think is right doesn't make a person wrong because they think different " X-Black

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I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish he didn't trust me so much. - Mother Theresa

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"Yes like I said it all boils down to morals. What you think is right doesn't make a person wrong because they think different " X-Black

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“Intellect is invisible to the man who has none”
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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
Albert Einstein

http://www.foodcontamination.ca/fsnet/2 ... ber_23.htm

20.oct.06

Salt Lake Tribune (UT)

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_4524657

Hope Ferdowsian, a nutrition researcher and public health specialist with the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine, asks in this op-ed, are we getting the real story about E. coli? As a physician trained in preventive medicine and public health, Ferdowsian is disheartened by the recent media coverage of this public health threat. Most Americans aren't getting some important information that could help them understand the danger and how to prevent it. They need to know that meat consumption and intensive animal agriculture play key roles in the E. coli problem.
While news coverage has focused on the contamination of spinach and lettuce, not enough attention has been paid to one key source of E. coli: animal manure. E. coli 0157:H7 is naturally found in the intestines of cattle and some other animals. When livestock farms or "concentrated feeding operations" foul groundwater or irrigation water, or a food handler with unwashed hands passes along his or her animal-borne infection, fruits and vegetables can become contaminated.
Over the past month, spinach and lettuce - two normally healthful foods - have been blamed for causing hundreds of E. coli infections, including some deaths. Cattle manure is the suspected source in the spinach-related outbreak.
But meat itself has usually been the main transmitter of E. coli and other food-borne illnesses.
Ferdowsian says that contaminated beef poses the biggest E. coli risk, and pollution from intensive animal agriculture contaminates produce. The most effective way to fight back is to eliminate meat from our diets.
By moving to a vegetarian diet, consumers can help end the problem of pollution from factory farms as well as reduce the risk of food-borne illness and diet-related diseases. Best of all, it's a choice we can make today - even as we're waiting for industry and the government to get serious about fighting E. coli.

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"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits."
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