A small recompense for decades of jokes at Mexico's expense, eh?

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[–] 200 points 3 months ago (18 children)

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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  • [–] 80 points 3 months ago* (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 27 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Yeah he really cares about the heartland 🙄

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 36 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    Real Americans use synthetic petroleum fertilizer like God intended.

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    The Romans did not understand this. Archeology digs in Roman latrines concluded most Romans carried parasites.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (2 children)

    Were those latrines lined? Did they place them sufficiently far from rivers and ground water?

    I don't think they understood much about disease vectors and germ theory, in general.

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  • [–] 64 points 3 months ago

    RFK Jr's revenge.

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  • [–] 25 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 56 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I would also warn against coming here for the vomiting risk, there's currently a plague of fascistic bigotritis going around

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  • [–] 19 points 3 months ago

    Mar A Lago's Revenge

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  • [–] 18 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Don't drink Mexico's water and don't eat America's lettuce.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (8 children)

    It's called Montezuma's revenge on Mexico. So in America what should we call it?

    Trump's Tummy Troubles? America's Enema?

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  • [–] 34 points 3 months ago

    Advertencia de Trumporrhea!

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  • [–] 33 points 3 months ago*

    DonTezuma's Revenge

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  • [–] 15 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 17 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago (7 children)

    FDA said yesterday it was a false positive

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  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago* (1 child)

    after taylor farms gave republicans a million dollars, of course.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago*

    in 2024, they had to recall another crop that had E coli which caused more severe disease then self-limiting diarrhea, and resulted in one death. E.coli strains(O15H7) that produces Shiga toxins is pretty dangerous. the crop was oNIONs, that was used by mcdonalds.

    seems taylor farms is supplies a majority of the veggies you see in stores. alot of chains seem to sell taylor farm salads, and other vegetables.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I'm dumb and/or not following this at all. What does that mean in this context: that they can't actually say that the lettuce was from Mexico?

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  • [–] 14 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    34 states? Isn't that the number felonies?

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  • [–] 86 points 3 months ago (9 children)

    Who the fuck is voluntarily going to the US in the first place?

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  • [–] 22 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    The stadiums for the world cup were pretty full with non-USA

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  • [–] 20 points 3 months ago (1 child)
  • [–] 10 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago

    Visited the US and now I'm just squitting Trumpwater out of my arse.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago (2 children)
    [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Mexico: "They certainly give us the shits!"

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  • [–] 5 points 3 months ago

    Oh how the turns have tabled.

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  • [–] 31 points 3 months ago (13 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 months ago (12 children)

    I find it funny when people say this, as the US is in the top 5 countries with the safest food worldwide.

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (4 children)

    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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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    99% of US chicken is no longer chlorinated.

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    It's still washed with hydrogen peroxide. Use of chemicals in EU/UK is prohibited.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago

    "chlorinated chicken" is chicken that has been rinsed with what's essentially tap water.

    Nowadays a mixture of hydrogen peroxide and vinegar is used in appropriately diluted solutions instead of the chlorine/water rinse because of this fear mongering you're displaying. The solution used is appropriately diluted, vinegar is edible, and hydrogen peroxide quickly breaks down into water and oxygen, so I don't know what you're scared of there.

    All of these techniques result in about an order of magnitude less foodborne pathogens, when compared to chicken with no treatment.

    Stop being afraid of "chemicals". I promise you the "use of chemicals" is not prohibited in the EU/UK, otherwise you'd have Europeans keeling over left and right from various foodborne illnesses.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    What is the source for this¿?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

    I'm guessing the Global Food Security Index, which in 2019, had the US ranked 3rd. That's based on a composite score that takes food availability, nutrition, quality, and safety into account.

    As of 2022, the index has been updated and the US's composite score puts it at 13th.

    Edit: sauce

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  • [–] 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    I went to the States and got Pocahontas’s Revenge.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Congratulations fellow shithole denizens!

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    The parasite will tickle your intestines and force you to lose weight. All thanks to Don's Green Apple Splatter.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

    Even without the current rash of lettuce etc. Mexicans can get a form of "Montezuma's revenge" (Alamo revenge?) from eating in America, because their guts aren't used to the local bacteria. This can happen any time you travel internationally - especially if you eat any kind of street food.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    No. No no no.

    To compare this to bacteria is a mistake.

    This is a parasite that only spreads from feces. If you get this parasite, it's because you're literally eating shit. That's nothing like airborne bacteria. Having shit in your food is a catastrophic and easily avoidable thing.

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    I could use some of that diarrhea right about now.

    feels like I'm pushing boulders through my colon.

    1000004352

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Is that diarho diarrhoa - The Shits?

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Jokes aside, your risk is much lower if you avoid pre-washed or pre-cut fruits and veggies. Anything left sitting in its own exuding juices is a shit attack waiting to happen.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    There’s also a distinct risk you’ll be arrested and thrown into a concentration camp.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 months ago

    Lol, Mexico's salads are just as bad as drinking there water, been there 😞

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago

    Totally cool so long as they stop pouring untreated sewage into the ocean. It's a bummer for the surfers and the ocean life.

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