FDA says it's OK to eat tomatoes again

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[r they 4 real]

yeah ... let me runout and get tomatoes to eat ... how do I know, the gov told me so ... these jerks couldn't find a **** in a whorehouse

[Sheesh]

Yea, but everything else is off limits until further notice :(-

[County]

Be careful where the food came from before you buy it. I avoid it if it came from Mexico or other countries like that. If you can't trust their drinking water than why should you trust the water used for watering the plants.

[LOL]

been eating em for the past 3 weeks now

useless FDA

[Lonnie]

They don't know what caused it but all of the sudden it is ok to eat them? Hmmmm, hold the tomatoes for me! Don't you just love it when the protections that are supposed to be in place for consumers just don't measure up! Ahhh, why am I whining about this - after all it isn't like its going to affect anyone's health anyway - oh wait, it is!

[A1ACharles Sees Hypocrisy]

IT was the jalapnos!!!

Chile today
Hot Tamale!

Come on ice cream!!

[Sparky]

I never stopped eating them.

[inSouthFlorida]

um, good thing since I bought them at Publix last weekend and made a salad that we all ate. Geez..

[Taylorblue]

I'm still leery of tomatoes. I don't care what they say.

[County]

Sparky wrote:

I never stopped eating them.

I never stopped eating them either. The ones bought here are obviously from Florida and not Mexico.

[What The]

Even if I was allergic prior to the Salomon Rushdie scare?

[Lady Justice]

Our demise will be food. Grow your own.

[CWP Holder]

This is the same FDA paid off by the drug companies to rush through testing of thier new wonderful drugs and get them on the market only to find out 2 years later that they're detrimental to people's health. FDA, the original American Drug Dealer. They should legalize weed, then they can tell the public whatever they want and the public will just head off to the store for more "whippets". But no, they want to public to be addicted to THIER drugs.

[Red]

Lonnie wrote:

They don't know what caused it but all of the sudden it is ok to eat them? Hmmmm, hold the tomatoes for me! Don't you just love it when the protections that are supposed to be in place for consumers just don't measure up! Ahhh, why am I whining about this - after all it isn't like its going to affect anyone's health anyway - oh wait, it is!

don;t you know why? They had a big meeting with Mexico. This is a deal so they can import their tomatoes here. FDA don;t know their butt from **** in the ground. One day we should not eat them and then after the meeting with Mexico we can.

[stasa mo]

can anyone remember an administration that was as inept or dumb as this one...or has heard of the amount of corruption by politicians on all levels federal, state and local...its like trickle down stealing

[stasa mo]

it was all a diversion to the real problems bushism has caused and will be with us for many years to come..oh now its the chile peppers...which I dont or will not eat anything with a mexican connection...

[Sparky]

County wrote:

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I never stopped eating them either. The ones bought here are obviously from Florida and not Mexico.

But I'd prefer they were Jersey beefsteaks, hmmmmm

[whodawatda]

so what ,growing my own and my horse and buggie with high gas prices what happen with this country???lol

[Steve]

The gross ignorance of the FDA clowns has done significant financial damage to the Florida economy. Certainly nowhere near the level of damage that the Army Corps Of "Engineers" continues to do though.

[Just Brilliant]

r they 4 real wrote:

yeah ... let me runout and get tomatoes to eat ... how do I know, the gov told me so ... these jerks couldn't find a **** in a whorehouse

Idiot. First of all, if you're not a moron, you wash your produce before you eat it. What the &*$! is the problem?!

Second of all, it was not all tomatoes -- if it even was tomatoes causing the illness in the first place.

Second of all, ONLY 1,000 illnesses around the entire country was hardly cause for this ridiculous alarm -- when one considers that there are a few hundred thousand cases of salmonella each year!

I did not stop eating tomatoes during this b.s. scare. Why? Because I'm not a pansy, and I'm smart enough to wash fruits and vegetables before eating. I also know about cross-contamination when I cook meat. Do YOU?