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DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-08-03 · 23:28 UTC

#Cyclospora Spreads Through Human Feces. How Did It Get Into Our Food Supply?

The large number of cases suggests that excrement entered the food system on a “surprising scale.”

By Alice Callahan and Caroline Hopkins Legaspi
July 21, 2026

Excerpt: "Several cyclospora outbreaks linked to raspberries in the late 1990s illustrated one way the parasite can contaminate fresh produce, said Melvin Kramer, an epidemiologist who worked in several state and local public health departments before founding a food safety consulting group.

"In 1996, after collecting detailed food histories from people sickened with cyclospora, investigators traced the illnesses to raspberries from a few farms in Guatemala. There, investigators determined it was likely that the #insecticides and #fungicides sprayed onto the berries had been mixed with #ContaminatedWater. The farms had sourced the water from wells or a nearby river, both of which were vulnerable to #runoff from latrines, especially during the rainy season. Although the water was filtered, the filter removed only debris, not microbes like cyclospora.

"Before this year, the largest outbreak in the United States in recent history occurred in the summer of 2020, sickening 701 people in 14 states and hospitalizing 38. Federal officials linked it to Fresh Express bagged salads containing iceberg lettuce, red cabbage and carrots. They traced at least some of that produce to a farm in South Florida and detected cyclospora in a nearby #WaterCanal that had been used to irrigate crops on the farm. Later, genetic analysis confirmed that the cyclospora found in the canal water matched that found in people sickened in the outbreak, said Frank Yiannas, who was a top official at the #FDA from 2018 to 2023."

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/r7zv4

#WaterIsLife #Cyclosporasis #FoodContamination #BigAg #GrowYourOwnFood #WaterContamination

#cyclospora #insecticides #fungicides #contaminatedwater #runoff #watercanal

LilMikeSF @[email protected] · 2026-07-20 · 23:21 UTC

#Drumpf admin allied #BigAg bag salad firm that supplies #FastFood chains still the suspected source of #cyclospora outbreak , despite #FDA retracting "false positive" that showed link to #Mexican harvested crops grown in oft harsh #unsanitary conditions picked by low wage field #workers without right to access clean or heated running #H2O and flush toilets.

In a subsequent statement FDA clarified, "To clariify, this false-positive lab sample DOES NOT change the basis for FDA's ongoing #outbreak investigation or the overwhelming epidemiological data supporting the current voluntary recall by #TaylorFarms."

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/taylor-farms-lettuce-false-positive-cyclospora/

#drumpf #bigag #fastfood #fda #mexican #unsanitary

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-05-19 · 22:26 UTC

Let's see, #Urine can produce #Urea , #Ammonia and add #Nitrogen to soil And what can add #Sulfur to soil? #Compost and #Manure! #BigAg's dependence on chemicals is ridiculous! We need #RegenerativeAgriculture on a local level to feed ourselves!

https://plant-heroes.com/what-are-the-natural-sources-of-sulfur-for-organic-farming/

#SolarPunkSunday #OrganicFarming

#urine #urea #ammonia #nitrogen #sulfur #compost

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-05-19 · 17:54 UTC

Oh boy. Plastics? Well, we need less of those anyways (and maybe actually recycle them?). Pharmaceuticals? Yeah, that's a BIG problem! Maybe manufacture them in smaller factories locally. As for fertilizer? Let's see... #Urea, #nitrogen and #ammonia -- all can come from urine! And sulphur? Grow more garlic and onions rather than use oil production byproducts. WTF!

"Around 30% of fertilizer products go through the Strait of Hormuz. Quatar is the world’s biggest producer of urea, a key input to fertiliser manufacture. The region also produces around 35% of the urea and 23% of the ammonia, another feedstock for nitrogenous fertiliser, which is exported globally. Sulphur, another component of fertiliser manufacture, is also produced in the region as a by-product of oil production."

https://northwestbylines.co.uk/news/war/the-hormuz-dry-run-life-without-oil-and-petrochemicals/

#USPol #WorldPol #PeakOil #LimitsToGrowth #Petrochemicals #LifeBeyondOil #BeyondOil #BigAg #RegenerativeAgriculture #SolarPunkSunday #LtG

#urea #nitrogen #ammonia #uspol #worldpol #peakoil

Paria sans portefeuille @[email protected] · 2026-04-22 · 13:23 UTC

'The dark, loamy dirt has been called #Ukraine’s “black gold,” and it’s some of the most fertile on earth [...] But environmental groups and farmers’ advocates have warned that the large-scale #industrialMonoculture practiced by #agribusiness threatens to degrade this prized soil through intensive harvesting and overuse of #fertilizers and #pesticides.'

https://thebaffler.com/latest/betting-the-farm-kruzman
#agriculture #monoculture #BigAg #industrialAgriculture #ecocide #privatisation

#ukraine #industrialmonoculture #agribusiness #fertilizers #pesticides #agriculture

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-04-15 · 14:38 UTC

So, this is a timely topic! From the latest issue of #InTheseTimes! The connection between Amazon Deforestation and CEO land grabs in the Western United States -- bought with blood money!

Fortress Yellowstone

The #UltraRich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact #ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological #SacrificeZones around the world

by Joseph Bullington, April 6, 2026

Excerpt: "Some of these ultra-rich ranch owners celebrate the natural beauty of their land and are ardent conservationists when it comes to the Yellowstone ecosystem. In digging into their business dealings, however, I found that most of these landowners accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. Their ranks include private equity investors, oil and gas billionaires and real estate developers. "

[...]

"Now, instead of forests full of fruits and animals and mandioca clearings, industrial soy plantations press in on #Açaizal like a closing fist. There is no escape from the onslaught of #monoculture. Manoel shows me where rows of broken cornstalks run right up against the edge of the community’s soccer field, which the soy farmers also want to plow. The soybeans and corn, like those in the United States, are genetically engineered to withstand the #herbicides and #pesticides the farmers dump on them to beat back weeds and pests, but the chemicals drift, says Manoel, making it impossible to grow fruits and vegetables and #mandioca nearby. The streams run low and full of poison."

#Billionaires #UberRich #CEOs #AmazonDeforestation #BigAg #SoybeanProduction #IndustralSoybeans #PoisoningTheAmazon #GMOs #Monoculture #Deforestation #Cargill #HomeDepot #SoyPlantations #SaveTheForest #SaveTheRainforest #Earth4All #DSA #DemocraticSocialism #ReadItBeforeItsBanned #TaxTheRich #NoTaxHavens #EatTheRich #YeetTheRich #BigCorporations

#inthesetimes #ultrarich #ecosystems #sacrificezones #acaizal #monoculture

DoomsdaysCW @[email protected] · 2026-04-02 · 14:24 UTC

So, reading about a #Fertilizer shortage... Specifically, #urea. Um, urea can be made with urine. That's the difference between #BigAg and #RegenerativeAgriculture -- utilizing "waste" in an efficient and sustainable way.

#fertilizer #urea #bigag #regenerativeagriculture

Mark @[email protected] · 2026-03-22 · 14:46 UTC

End #Toxic #Greed

Our global #food system is broken; #CorporateGreed is to blame

Families, communities, local farmers face devastating impacts of #ClimateChange from extreme weather to higher food costs; handful of #billionaires running #BigAg profit

They expand cruel, #polluting factory farms, #poison #waterways, eat up forests

Politicians let corporate destroyers & billionaires off the hook

Time to choose people over #profit

https://www.greenpeace.org/international/act/stop-big-meat-and-dairy/?utm_source=mastodon_fediverse

#PeopleNotProfits #starvation

#starvation #peoplenotprofits #profit #waterways #poison #polluting

ViaCampesinaBE ⁂⏚:mastodon: @[email protected] · 2026-03-14 · 18:59 UTC

#IpesFood New Report #HeadInTheCloud
📁⇄📁 HEAD IN THE CLOUD ⤵️
👉 https://ipes-food.org/report/head-in-the-cloud
Challenging #BigTech and #BigAg
False Promise of #DigitalAgriculture
and Cultivating #Innovation
from the Ground Up 🚜👨🏽‍🌾✊🏽

➡️ EN/ES/FR/PT: https://ipes-food.org/report-summary/head-in-the-cloud

@viacampesina_en

#HeadInTheCloud #Digital #Agriculture #BigTech #BigAg #StopCorporateCapture