another nail in the coffin

I wonder was this research done by Tesco and is it a suble way to encourage shoppers to buy from supermarkets and not the high street
BBC News - Leek and potato soil linked to E. coli outbreak

 

It just worries me that alot of kids wont eat proper food now adays and when their parents see a head line like that they will just pass by fresh food and moved to processed mush even more,
Surely these bugs are there in the soil but shouldn't us humans be immune to such things

 

Well, if you have to take (supposedly) intelligent adults by the hand and tell them to wash vegetables then I do, finally, give up.

And as for it being a Tesco ploy? Well, quite possibly. My local Tesco has just undergone a 'makeover'. The homebaking section which previously covered both sides of one aisle now covers only half of one side and has been moved to the back of the store right in the corner. New, slightly smaller freezer cabinets, mean they've been able to squeeze in a whole extra aisle (with even less room to move between them), the beer now has 2 aisles all to itself (in addition to wines and spirits) and the crisps, snacks and other cr*p have an unbelievable 1½ aisles.

If they ever try to hand me another 'How to Eat Well' leaflet, I may just be tempted to stuff it somewhere Dame Shirley Porter never envisaged.

 

Same as ours a small section for "fresh" fruit and veg
1 isle for bottled water,a whole corner for sweets and crisps
i side isle for frozen mashed spuds/omletes and the like
A real struggle to find food ingredients
even the pet food isle is bigger than the food isle i dont include meat because we dont buy meat from there!

 

I do worry that one day we will be controlled by Tesco and that we will become some Orwellian style population where everything we buy is from Tesco. I read the other week that £1 in every £7 spent in the UK is spent in Tesco's and its not just food that they have monopolised. Perhaps its a sign of success but another view might just be that they are bullies who steamroller the independents into submission. Very sad imo

 

Two aisles of Beer ! So Tesco can do at least one thing right :D
When I was a nipper your choice was a packet of Smiths crisp , with the salt in a blue wrap, out of a big tin . Now the crisp aisle in Asda/Tesco is as long as the fresh veg aisle !

 

IMO unpoluted soil is as safe as houses, the truth is some people live such sterile lives that their immune systems soon won't cope with anything.
I am not ashamed to say that in my 59 years I have probably consumed a ton of soil working on the land and outside jobs and I am never ill other than a common cold.
So here I am living proof that soil is safe!!!

 

As the old saying goes " you have to eat a peck of dirt before you die " !

 

Ok lets look at this from another angle for centuries humans eat raw meat and berries and anything else that they could and drank water from streams.then as time progresed and people moved from caves to houses they cooked stuff but the night soil (:WINK1 was dumped where ever and the rivers were polluted and still mankind survived.So now with all the controls in place is the world a safer place or less safe food wise.:fingerdrum: