A small recompense for decades of jokes at Mexico’s expense, eh?
Lmao. I was at a grocery store the other day and buying some grapes. Some old 70+ year old lady said I shouldn’t buy Mexican produce because they use poop for fertilizer. I laughed looked her in the face and asked her what she thought we used for fertilizer. She didn’t like that.
asked her what she thought we used for fertilizer.
70+-year-old ladies. It works so well because they’re full of shit.
Just published today in The Guardian:
The Trump administration has killed proposed regulations for sewage sludge contaminated with Pfas and spread on farmland as fertilizer, a practice that has sickened farmers, destroyed their livelihoods, killed livestock, polluted water supplies, and poisoned meat and food products sold to the public.
Yeah he really cares about the heartland 🙄
And the farmers will continue to vote Republican.
Fertilizer just increased 50% in price. Enjoy, hicks.
Allowing continued spreading of PFAS contaminated sludge is beyond horrible because those chemicals will stay there permanently. Around 1/3 or so of USA cropland is already polluted from spreading of sludges. There is nothing in nature that can break PFAS down, so all that polluted land will have to literally be removed and stored similar to hazardous nuclear waste.
When we finally realize the damage and start work to repair it, it will be the largest remediation project in human history.
I think nature will evolve/select some sort of bacteria that will digest PFAs and plastics, making it a problem that will solve itself. It’ll only take a few hundred thousand years I reckon.
Real Americans use synthetic petroleum fertilizer like God intended.
If you’re not an errant spark away from vaporizing the tri-county area by feeding your plants, can you really call yourself an american?
Fertilizer is already explosive
Why not skip farming entirely and just eat fat made from petroleum?
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0263876221004275
That’s lokey awesome.
My god it would have been so hard for me to reply to that politely.
Good on you for finding a way to do so.
There’s a way to safely use poop for fertilizer. You have to compost it to kill pathogens first.
Neither counties do this, and that’s one reason people get e-coli, parasites, and other diseases
The Romans did not understand this. Archeology digs in Roman latrines concluded most Romans carried parasites.
Were those latrines lined? Did they place them sufficiently far from rivers and ground water?
I don’t think they understood much about disease vectors and germ theory, in general.
Pete Hegseth says germ theory is fake.
The concept of bacteria didn’t appear until almost 800 years later. Romans used poop to fertilize fields, but did not treat it.
Yeah, we just call it “Biosolid” fertilizer.
Liquid cancer is much better
Who the fuck is voluntarily going to the US in the first place?
The stadiums for the world cup were pretty full with non-USA
Yea if you’re willing to give FIFA money why not give USA some money too. We’re not talking about the brightest bulbs here.
Actually a lot of the people were locals. There was an article on the Dutch news stating whenever the real Dutch supporters, saw other people wearing orange, the were mostly Americans.
According to the official figures, just released, out of the 6.5 million visitors, only 1.2 million were international visitors.
Cool, go suck down some tainted lettuce and have fun getting dehydrated
The people went for the world cup, not for the US… obviously.
A lot of soccer fans did.
immigrants, tourists
You couldn’t pay me to tour the US atm. Well… It would have to be very very high at least. All expenses paid wouldn’t be close.
tourists minus Robust Mirror*
I first thought that your username is PlaidBacon and had to reread it.
RFK Jr’s revenge.
I would also warn against coming here for the vomiting risk, there’s currently a plague of fascistic bigotritis going around
Also, acute lead poisoning from los gravy seals.
Mar A Lago’s Revenge
As a family owned and operated company, we are deeply concerned for those who became ill, their families, and the many Americans whose trust in the safety of their fresh produce has been shaken
What a fucking load of bull.
The likely reason for this outbreak is because you didn’t provide toilets to your farm workers, who had to shit in the fields where they work.
Not even an apology for your workers, you PR scum.
DonTezuma’s Revenge
Advertencia de Trumporrhea!
This is a valid thing even without the current diarrhea epidemic.
US food is objectively shit, the poor quality and ingredients that are banned almost everywhere else being only some of many reaasons.I find it funny when people say this, as the US is in the top 5 countries with the safest food worldwide.
Hard doubt that the usa would be in front of the 27 EU countries sharing a single food standard.
Chlorinated chicken and hormone loaded beef are banned here in the UK and also the EU, I believe.
We don’t chlorinate our chicken because we have standards of cleanliness that don’t necessitate it.
You may feel it’s safe, but most would not agree. A trade deal with the US that degrades our standards would make me feel nauseous.
99% of US chicken is no longer chlorinated.
It’s still washed with hydrogen peroxide. Use of chemicals in EU/UK is prohibited.
“chlorinated chicken” is chicken that has been rinsed with what’s essentially tap water.
Nowadays a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and vinegar is used in appropriately diluted solutions instead of the chlorine/water rinse because of this fear mongering you’re displaying. The solution used is appropriately diluted, vinegar is edible, and hydrogen peroxide quickly breaks down into water and oxygen, so I don’t know what you’re scared of there.
All of these techniques result in about an order of magnitude less foodborne pathogens, when compared to chicken with no treatment.
Stop being afraid of “chemicals”. I promise you the “use of chemicals” is not prohibited in the EU/UK, otherwise you’d have Europeans keeling over left and right from various foodborne illnesses.
We do have chicken labeled as “air chilled” that is not treated, but you’re typically paying 50-100% more for that per pound.
What is the source for this¿?
I’m guessing the Global Food Security Index, which in 2019, had the US ranked 3rd. That’s based on a composite score that takes food availability, nutrition, quality, and safety into account.
As of 2022, the index has been updated and the US’s composite score puts it at 13th.
Edit: sauce
That’s not what food security means
The following parameters are considered for ranking countries in relation to food security:
- Nutritional standards
Uhuh. US you say?
And only 113 states?
I don’t say, the GFSI says
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Bigger they come, harder they fall.
Don’t drink Mexico’s water and don’t eat America’s lettuce.
My bucket list just gets easier the older I get
trumporrhea
It’s called Montezuma’s revenge on Mexico. So in America what should we call it?
Trump’s Tummy Troubles? America’s Enema?
trumporrhea
Donarrhea.
Similar to the way bs flows out of dumpy’s mouth.
MAHA Blast
Fuck, lmao, that’s too good.
You can feel the roadkill in yer britches!
magarrhea
It’s called that because Montezuma’s Aztec Empire was destroyed by colonizers, so the equivalent should be the leader of a native tribe where the US is now. Sitting Bull’s revenge?
*Shitting Bull
I went to the States and got Pocahontas’s Revenge.
Trumps Revenge
I’m all about mocking the American Century of Humiliation brought on by cuts to their food safety system, but in this case isn’t there evidence that the contaminated lettuce was originally sourced from Mexico? I’m not super big on trusting any evidence from the MAGA admin but AFAIK that’s all we’ve got.
Correct, so far it seems the lettuce is from Mexico, and it’s not the first time this has happened (outbreaks during the spring and summer are pretty common, regardless of administration).
https://www.npr.org/2026/07/12/nx-s1-5890935/cyclosporiasis-cyclospora-outbreak-diarrhea-states-us
So funny meme I guess, but is is pretty shitty when you think about it.
In this case It’s less about the source and more about the cuts to FDA/CDC to trace and mitigate. Like it was US-based lettuce that was the problem then obviously there’s be an additional layer of accountability.
That said, it’s way bigger of an outbreak than we’ve had in decades
FDA said yesterday it was a false positive
after taylor farms gave republicans a million dollars, of course.
in 2024, they had to recall another crop that had E coli which caused more severe disease then self-limiting diarrhea, and resulted in one death. E.coli strains(O15H7) that produces Shiga toxins is pretty dangerous. the crop was oNIONs, that was used by mcdonalds.
seems taylor farms is supplies a majority of the veggies you see in stores. alot of chains seem to sell taylor farm salads, and other vegetables.
The Taylor farms check cleared.
Yeah, I don’t trust this administration to not cover it up to save face. No way of knowing what kinds of talks have been happening behind closed doors at the white house.
I’m dumb and/or not following this at all. What does that mean in this context: that they can’t actually say that the lettuce was from Mexico?
Likely it means the farm bribed Trump to call it a false positive to save reputation. They had donated a million to him before.
probably protection racket, in case they get a class action suit agains tthem, he will try intefere.
That’s why this headline is funny right?
34 states? Isn’t that the number felonies?
The number of states/felonies, so far.
