Re:California moves to cut off water to thousands of farmers
by nradov on Saturday July 24, 2021 @04:52PM
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I've got news for you: wild animals shit on your food crops all the time.
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Re:California moves to cut off water to thousands of farmers
by ethbr0 on Saturday July 24, 2021 @04:57PM
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My father was in livestock pathology and always had a chuckle whenever spinach or (insert product here) would claim field contamination.
His verdict: 9/10 it's rat feces at the processing or packaging plant.
But from a marketing perspective, field crop contamination is an act of God. Can't be helped.
Plant contamination would actually mean someone was at fault. And would require (expensive) changes.
Re:California moves to cut off water to thousands of farmers
by snovv_crash on Saturday July 24, 2021 @05:05PM
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The issue when it's people is it let's parasites enter a lifecycle which isn't complicated. Human feces is more likely to have parasites infectious to humans
Re:California moves to cut off water to thousands of farmers
by TaylorAlexander on Saturday July 24, 2021 @05:02PM
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Right but apparently that doesn't kill me. The question is what happens to industrial runoff in the water stream and if that has any effect on food safety.
Re:California moves to cut off water to thousands of farmers
by ethbr0 on Saturday July 24, 2021 @05:18PM
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I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong) US stormwater / runoff systems have to be isolated from sewer systems. Maybe an EPA requirement?
So reclaimed water is typically dealing with "anything anyone puts down a piped drain in their house."
(That said, I think there are also runoff processing requirements before discharge into waterways too)