Know what is annoying?  Go to the FDA and the CDC websites and they haven't given any updates in 4 or 5 days!  

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Thats why I grow  as much food as possible and have a bathroom.  Everybody should have a few tomatoes or something even  in a pot on your porch.  Buy local in season from small farmers . Can them and dry them for winter use, and don't depend on the big business "farms" .

I grew up in Schenectady- back in " the day "- when it was safe to live on Schenectady St-
half of my grandmothers yard was planted tomatoes- the neighbor to the right and to the left did the same-  Must be an Italian thing- everyone used to be proud of thier tomatoes

My grandparents lived in the Mt. Pleasant area back when it was safer too. Everyone in the neighborhood grew their own vegetables. I remember when I was a kid, my mom and her sisters would go to my grandparents house and freeze and can ALL of the vegetables they grew. And those vegetables lasted them all winter long.

They also raised their own chickens. The eggs were always fresh. They use to kill and freeze the chickens too. That was not my most favorite thing back then, but I now understand it was their culture. I don't think my grandmother ever went into a market.

And I think it was an Italian thing too.

That was early in the GE/SI/ALCO dumping era......brown fields are not the place to plant and neither is it okay to have a garden in a 100' x100' yard when you and your neighbors share the same soil for septic effluent.......YUCK!........

Run to the hills or wait for the city to be starved to death.......maybe 'thinning out' the population is the key????

E-coli is from the animal manure......either way are folks too lazy to wash the vegetables??? and since this has become a media issue---how many of the cases are from 'normal stats'(that could be an oxymoron).....you know 1 in 300,000 get e-coli infections every year, kind of thing........tracking infections is not an exact science, and not like a Columbo mystery.......