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New killer of cruising sailors
(JAXAshby) wrote:
I have not seen any cites that say that cruising sailors have been killed. http://takehersailingboard.infopop.c...016594&f=99560 83605&m=630105035&r=479100135#479100135 http://takehersailingboard.infopop.c...0135#479100135 talks mostly about food safety. And most of the food safety stuff is normal stuff like cans with botulism. The business about washing stuff in bleach that has been fertilized with human waste was something that we did in 1950 when visiting Germany, which isn't usually thought of as a third world country although it was still recovering from WWII of course. Hardly new information even if the E.coli strain that's around now is new. grandma Rosalie |
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New killer of cruising sailors
Just to save someone alot of cutting&pasting or Ctrl'ing Cing &
Ctrl'ing Ving, I'll be re-adjusting to reading only and will be sorta busy anyway in the upcoming days with a chilli-cook-off here in sunny SoCa so may not have time for quite awhile actually! Cheers, and a nice day to all, yes, including you too (the nuns taught me to be nice to everyone - god bless their forgiving souls) Karen PS you can read more of my dribble at the Lats & Atts board too btw! Stephen Trapani wrote in message ... JAXAshby wrote: Raw milk was the vehicle in a school outbreak in Canada. it is illegal to sell raw milk in Canada or the US of A or any European country or most any other country on the planet. Pasteurization has been the recommended, later required, norm for milk since the 19th century. Actually it's legal to sell raw milk in both Canada and the U.S. but the dairy and product are subjected to special raw mild standards, which btw, dictates much more cleanliness and expense. See: http://www.realmilk.com/where2.html#can (first Google hit for "raw milk") Stephen |
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New killer of cruising sailors
Interesting thread.
My opinions/observations for what they are worth... Food hygene is a personal issue, and everyone has their own threshold. Me? Yes, I wash my hands several times a day...mainly to reduce the chance of getting the flu and colds. Seems to work. Produce? Yep, I at least rinse it...mainly to get rid of as much pesticides as possible. Does it work? Who knows.. Do I eat salad in far away destinations? No. Do I drink the water? Not if I can get bottled water. Should I remain tied to the dock because my opinion of what's safe for me is different from the opinion of others? I don't think so. I'll do what I have to do, and expect you to do the same... As regards E. Coli, I thought the bad bugs (which were responsible for the fast-food outbreaks) were due to bovine fecal matter....not human. A book titled "Germs, Steel and Guns" (I think that's the title) suggests that when people started forming communities, illness wiped out a lot of them. The cause seemed to be that instead of people and animals being separated in the open, during their nomadic days, they now were all bunched up to the point of sleeping in common areas with their farm animals and each other. No one knew that cleaning the pens, and a bit of separation was a good thing. It wasn't the only cause of death by any means, but it contributed,and still does today. As been pointed out by others, E.Coli is a moderate risk, absent any other factors...age being the most common. Do we know for a certainity we don't have any other factors on a given day? Of course not, but we shouldn't worry about it....we'd drive ourselves nuts. As for me..I'll avoid exposure if possible...I don't enjoy getting sick just to prove I can eat tainted foods and survive. I think a large degree of risk depends on what your system is used to. When I was a kid growing up in Colorado, we all would flop down on our belly and drink from rivers, creeks, irrigation ditches, etc. (some of which ran through the town dump), and never seemed to suffer ill effects. I'm sure if I did that now..I'd die..lol It's commonly said that people who come to the USA have stomach problems for a few weeks, just as we do when we visit their country. One point we all should remember is that what's OK for one person may not be for another, so advice in a public forum should be qualified, and on the cautious side. Plus, a sample of one does not a trend make...just because my buddy John eats a bug and dies a horrible death doesn't mean that all who eat a bug are going to die too. Then, sometimes, people draw funny conclusions. A co-worker reasoned that since oil/tar/etc was organic, those things should be safe to eat., and not harmful in the least. To prove the point, he ate an orange with *very* greasy hands, and said, "See?" Of course he didn't die, but he spent more time in the head during the next several hours than he normally would in a month. And the belly-ache was nothing to sneeze at either, according to him. I can't believe I've rambled so much...I need to get on the water! Norm B |
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New killer of cruising sailors
Anyone afraid of lettuce should never untie their dock lines.
Death is not the problem but Montezuma will get his revenge. Good thing there are few NDZs in third world countries. for ***very young children and the elderly*** (compromised immune system), eating lettuce maybe. |
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New killer of cruising sailors
Anyone interested in some IN-DEPTH information about the disease producing
strain of E. coli known as "E. coli O157:H7" can learn all that is necessary to protect yourself from: http://people.ku.edu/~jbrown/ecoli.html somehow it seems to missed the recommendation that all vegetables be sprayed first with Clorox bleach and then hydrogen peroxide then washed before eating. |
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New killer of cruising sailors
grandma, I was being facetious.
anyone worrying about lettuce should never leave the dock. I have not seen any cites that say that cruising sailors have been killed. http://takehersailingboard.infopop.c...016594&f=99560 83605&m=630105035&r=479100135#479100135 http://takehersailingboard.infopop.c...6016594&f=9956 083605&m=630105035&r=479100135#479100135 talks mostly about food safety. And most of the food safety stuff is normal stuff like cans with botulism. The business about washing stuff in bleach that has been fertilized with human waste was something that we did in 1950 when visiting Germany, which isn't usually thought of as a third world country although it was still recovering from WWII of course. Hardly new information even if the E.coli strain that's around now is new. grandma Rosalie |
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New killer of cruising sailors
okay, jeffies, let's state it this way. It is illegal to sell unpastuerized
milk in interstate commerce. feel better now? the yo-yo -- without asking his wife's permission -- wrote thusly: Unpasteurized milk might be a bad idea, but it isn't strictly illegal. Once again, Jaxie is just making it up as he goes along: http://www.magma.ca/~ca/rawmilk/survey.htm Maine, along with other states, permits the sale of unpasteurized milk as long as it is handled properly and labeled. Other states allow sale from small farms (a few cows) and some allow joint ownership of producing cows. "JAXAshby" wrote in message ... Raw milk was the vehicle in a school outbreak in Canada. it is illegal to sell raw milk in Canada or the US of A or any European country or most any other country on the planet. Pasteurization has been the recommended, later required, norm for milk since the 19th century. people terrified by the thoughts of painful illnesses lurking under every lettuce leaf or alfalfa spout they might come across unless they spray household bleach and then household hydrogen peroxide on the food first should never go sailing. cruising sailors die of skin cancer and cigarette smoking and clogged arteries due to high fat foods/too many calories and chronic excess alcohol intake and stepping of sharp rocks and bullet wounds from jealous spouses. "sweating the small stuff" is an absolute indicator one in so far in over one's head that one should seek the council of his/her clergy. |
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New killer of cruising sailors
There are several farms near where I live in Connecticut that sell raw
milk. Completely legal. not for interstate commerce. btw bb, are you trying to say that *YOU* are so scared of leaving the dock that *YOU* are worried to death about becoming elderly and infirm at some distant port and _then_ getting the runs for lettuce you didn't first bleach with laundry the hell out and then -- for good measure -- bleach the hell out of it a second time with hydrogen peroxide? Buuuuuuuuuuuut, you ARe willing to gladly drink unpasteurized milk?????????? |
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New killer of cruising sailors
Karen
PS you can read more of my dribble at the Lats & Atts board too btw! says it all, doesn't it. Frightened of eating lettuce but proudly proclaims to be posting on the Scooter Trash board. |
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