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.
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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?
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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
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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.
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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.
Advertencia de Trumporrhea!
Dontezuma's Revenge
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.
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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.
Mar A Lago's Revenge
Don't drink Mexico's water and don't eat America's lettuce.
My bucket list just gets easier the older I get
It's called Montezuma's revenge on Mexico. So in America what should we call it?
Trump's Tummy Troubles? America's Enema?
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.
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trumporrhea
34 states? Isn't that the number felonies?
The number of states/felonies, so far.
This is the diplomatic way to say "takes one to know one" in response to the accusation of "shithole country."
We are actively, aggressively dismantling as much vital government services as we can to pad the bottom lines of as many oligarchs as possible with the continued Trickle Down Reagan Economics promises that need just one more election cycle to come to fruition, despite all available data pointing to the contrary.
... but if the data is "woke" I guess it's to be ignored.
They aren't jokes. There are many places in Mexico where the tap water is not safe to drink or to use to wash vegetables for anyone non-local.
In the US, some lettuce is contaminated and not safe to consume.
Visited the US and now I'm just squitting Trumpwater out of my arse.
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