You say Tomato, I say To(meat)o

I know, I know, just like in the infamous words of Madonna, "Papa, don't preach," we generally don't like preaching mixed in with our daily lives or our foods. But I strongly urge people to educate themselves with the truth.

Please, please, please read this News Release on the real-deal behind the recent Salmonella outbreak on tomatoes.

This is as important to agriculture, as it is to our "green" environment, as it is to the intestinal illness itself:

http://www.pcrm.org/news/release080709.html

"As a recent Pew Commission Report on industrial farm animal
production noted, untreated animal waste harboring pathogens
contaminates air, water, soil, and crops. Farm animal waste was the
identified cause of a 2006 E. coli outbreak in which infected spinach
killed three people and sickened hundreds of others, according to an
investigation by the FDA.."

Pew Commission on Industrial Farm Animal Production