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I already don't buy anything from Mexico. Too many times when I have in the past I have gotten sick.  It's bad enough we have so many Mexican migrants and illegals coming here working and too often I have seen (and reported) them urinating in the fields or behind some bush if they are doing landscape maintenance. GROSS! Now they are trying to say we need them in the US to do the jobs Americans won't do and they are even planning this big boycot for Monday. Personally I think we should have a boycott of our own. Many of the Mexican's crossing America's border think they have a right to cross illegally and to make matters worse their government is encouraging the invasion.

Thanks Survivor!

Looking at that pdf file is frightening. Apparently we are feeding bird crap to nearly all of our livestock.

Exerpt from document:

Pathogenic Bacteria

Poultry wastes are potential sources of pathogenic
microorganisms. However, a recent report in which 86 samples of
poultry litter obtained in Georgia (USA) were analyzed for the
presence of pathogens indicates that even prior to processing,
the presence of pathogenic microorganisms is not a serious
problem (Martin and McCann, 1996). No Salmonella or E. coli were
isolated from any of the 86 samples. Martin and McCann (1996)
concluded that poultry litter does not appear to be a source of
harmful microorganisms when fed to beef cattle.

Here's a site where you can search by waste ingredients to see which commercial products contain chicken litter or chicken manure

http://apps.ecy.wa.gov/fertilizer/index.html

I like my vegetables fresh and crispy, but everything will HAVE to be fully cooked once the pandemic is underway. Besides that, I won't be going out shopping!!

I have really been naive or ignorant - depending on how you want to look at it.

I honestly didn't realize that most of the meat we purchase and consume has been fed a diet that consists in part of other animal feces.
No wonder it's no longer safe to have a nice juicy hamburger cooked medium or medium rare.

I may actually become an involuntary vegetarian yet.

I was wondering about the spray that they sell in the produce dept. for cleaning veggies & fruits .... I haven't purchased it, but I think I'll take a look-see to check it out.  Has anyone used that, or know anything about it?? -k  (geeze, there are just so many sides to this BF story .... so much to think about!!)

ReadyMom,

I don't have time for a detailed post, but flu viruses are going to be mostly a temporary problem on the surface of foods.  Not only are they easily killed with heat, also their membrane is easily harmed by soap or acidic environments.  Flu is not well protected before it gets into our cells.  So washing fruits/ veggies with even dilute soap and then a rinse will get almost all of virus off.  Still not reliable if you know there is fresh bird droppings!  Fertilizer that was older would be less risky, presuming there had been enough air exposure to dry and kill viruses.  Acidic fertilizers would perhaps be a bad environment for flu survival.