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WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 4/20/2017 1:56:25 PM

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I am very careful to eat a healthy diet. This includes daily consumption of
vegetables and fruits. So this information really got my attention.
You can bet all my kale and spinach and lettuce, etc., is going to be well washed.

There is growing awareness of the spread to the continental states of the rat lungworm.
Here is some information about this brain eating parasite. Which it is possible to get from
the slime of a snail's trail.

http://pharmacy.uhh.hawaii.edu/rlw/faq.php

http://www.malamaopuna.org/ratlung/needtoknow.php

And a video from Australia:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VMleFxq_Yk

An article from Science Times.

http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/12502/20170414/rare-rat-lungworm-disease-threatens-the-united-states-9-confirmed-cases-in-2017.htm

"Since January this year, state epidemiologist Dr. Sarah Park said that there were nine confirmed cases of rat lungworm disease in Hawaii alone. In the mainland United States, there were documented old and new human cases in Alabama, California, and Louisiana. Oklahoma reported a transmission in 2015. Apart from humans, two white-handed gibbons in Miami, Florida died of suspected rat lungworm disease as well."

From The Atlantic:

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2017/04/when-globalization-brings-brain-invading-worms/522153/

"Transmission to humans often occurs when people eat intermediate hosts—a tiny, translucent slug might be imperceptible on a leaf of lettuce that wasn’t adequately washed, for example. Even the slime left behind by an infected slug carries a transmission risk. (Eating raw or undercooked freshwater prawns, crabs, and frogs is also a risk factor.)"

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 4/20/2017 2:01:38 PM

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Damn, just when I was ready to try slugs, raw frogs and dirty greens. I'll have to rethink trying out for naked and afraid now.

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 4/20/2017 3:39:01 PM

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Damn - I knew vegetables were bad for you! Bring on the steak........

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 4/20/2017 5:07:52 PM

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Where's the meat!

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 4/22/2017 5:15:16 PM

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Easy enough to do.

The fruits go into a purpose-made small tub with a squirt of hydrogen peroxide and swishing around and sitting for a few minutes as I do other things.

Smoke a cigarette while you wait. Kidding. (But I actually did just that years ago, as I was making the transition.)

The greens can go into a sink or a bigger tub, with two drops of chlorine or squirts of hydrogen peroxide.

Less of a concern for organically grown items, but the spillover from agro-chem and bio-chem is not entirely unavoidable no matter how an individual farmer or farming community does it.

As planned.

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 4/22/2017 5:33:45 PM

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Easy enough to do.

The fruits go into a purpose-made small tub with a squirt of hydrogen peroxide and swishing around and sitting for a few minutes as I do other things.

Smoke a cigarette while you wait. Kidding. (But I actually did just that years ago, as I was making the transition.)

The greens can go into a sink or a bigger tub, with two drops of chlorine or squirts of hydrogen peroxide.

Less of a concern for organically grown items, but the spillover from agro-chem and bio-chem is not entirely unavoidable no matter how an individual farmer or farming community does it.

As planned.

Can't be bothered to read the links? It's not H2O2, chlorine or other disinfectants that remove small snails carrying Rat Lung Worm larvae inside, it's simple water pressure.
For a simple, comprehenisve video presentation: https://www.facebook.com/civilbeat/videos/1512775718755151/
Using a bleach or other disinfectant rinse/soak is for bacteria, virus or fungal infectious life on produce, beans, seeds, etc., soap is for oil and water based agricultural chemicals.

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 4/22/2017 5:49:47 PM

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DUH

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 4/22/2017 9:49:31 PM

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Easy enough to do.

The fruits go into a purpose-made small tub with a squirt of hydrogen peroxide and swishing around and sitting for a few minutes as I do other things.

Smoke a cigarette while you wait. Kidding. (But I actually did just that years ago, as I was making the transition.)

The greens can go into a sink or a bigger tub, with two drops of chlorine or squirts of hydrogen peroxide.

Less of a concern for organically grown items, but the spillover from agro-chem and bio-chem is not entirely unavoidable no matter how an individual farmer or farming community does it.

As planned.

Can't be bothered to read the links? It's not H2O2, chlorine or other disinfectants that remove small snails carrying Rat Lung Worm larvae inside, it's simple water pressure.
For a simple, comprehenisve video presentation: https://www.facebook.com/civilbeat/videos/1512775718755151/
Using a bleach or other disinfectant rinse/soak is for bacteria, virus or fungal infectious life on produce, beans, seeds, etc., soap is for oil and water based agricultural chemicals.

My apologies for not reading every link in the OP.

I ventured into the first link, which essentially said "DOOM!" There is nothing to be done!" and didn't venture any further.

Here's the news: I obsessed over this for too long already, years ago. I know I am going to die. I know everybody is going to die. We are all just brothers and sisters in that great endeavor to our universe-granted oblivion.

I eat for the most part the best food I can, bought from local or remote farmers, I get out on the mountain bike and dive into back alleys and side streets when in the neighborhood, so as to not heavily inhale car and bus exhaust like the idiot road bikers and joggers do, etc., in between better adventures in the woodlands paths.

But even after all that . . .

I am going to die!! OMG!

Eat more garlic and get a mountain bike, that's my solution to everything.

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 4/24/2017 9:52:08 AM

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My first trip to West Africa I ate at a Vietnamese restaurant. I lost 40 lbs in thirty days from eating a salad. I have since washed everything I eat thoroughly.

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 4/25/2017 6:52:58 AM

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Brain eating worms... that's it for me. No more foods from Australia.

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 5/11/2017 12:08:41 PM

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Brain eating worms... that's it for me. No more foods from Australia.

See, EVERYTHING in Australia is deadly! Visiting Australia is at the very bottom of my bucket list, because I'm absolutely convinced it will be the last thing I do.

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 5/12/2017 2:11:27 AM

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See, EVERYTHING in Australia is deadly! Visiting Australia is at the very bottom of my bucket list, because I'm absolutely convinced it will be the last thing I do.

That's hilarious. I've probably been to Australia more than 20 times in my life time now, and no dangerous things happened! But it seem to always happen to Americans!

Like I went to watch my Favourite American band there and I don't know how the FUCK a spider crawl on stage and bit him and he needed to go to the hospital!

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 5/12/2017 2:14:58 AM

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I actually never wash my leafy vegetables because they are too hard to wash and then to dry them!

So oh well, hope nothing ever happens!

If it does! It would be funny! Murdered by Vegetables!

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 5/18/2017 3:40:09 PM

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I actually never wash my leafy vegetables because they are too hard to wash and then to dry them!

So oh well, hope nothing ever happens!

If it does! It would be funny! Murdered by Vegetables!

It is not hard to dry them, they have salad spinners for doing just that.
And they are almost always available cheap, in thrift stores. Especially
a few months after wedding season when the brides donate them.

I have 2, a family sized and a smaller personal sized one, $3.00 each.
I have found them there for friends as well.

Here is one. https://www.oxo.com/products/preparing/fruit-vegetable-tools/salad-spinner#green

I gave some fresh washed torn up chard leafs a ride today. They were great.

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 5/30/2017 3:39:15 PM

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Reminds me of a cousin that insists washing fruits and veggies washes away the vitamins. She told me this while making strawberry shortcake with strawberries from Mexico. Four in her family in the doctor's office the next morning with E.Coli infections; she now washes all of her fruits and veggies.

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RE: WASH YOUR PRODUCE! And wear shoes. - 5/31/2017 12:22:56 PM

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Reminds me of a cousin that insists washing fruits and veggies washes away the vitamins.

Did she, now? That's interesting. I've never heard that one, nor anyone else who has.

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She told me this while making strawberry shortcake with strawberries from Mexico. Four in her family in the doctor's office the next morning with E.Coli infections; she now washes all of her fruits and veggies.

The reason that the thousands per annum (usually non-threatening) food poisonings by animal products don't make the news is because it's just another 'dog bites man' non-story.

The once-per-5-yr. outlier death from organic spinach, after being flooded from a neighboring cattle ranch or 2,000-count pork pen after a heavy rain, or an incident expiration of a congenitally immune deficient 5 yr. old girl after having a cup of non-pasteurized organic apple juice (which never was determined as cause of death in any case) is what plays.

All three of my food poisoning episodes were incontrovertibly as result of industrialized animal products. The first one was truly horrific, but not life threatening.

The reason why some states require hunt kills to be tested is because there is so much crap in the ground dumped there by agro-chem, which makes its way to soil and water and plants that the wild animals then imbibe and ingest and accumulate.

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