Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 21:54     Subject: Re:Would you eat this?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I might be a little nervous about the raw strawberries. For the PP who wonders how they can be infected, rats are frequent carriers of disease. Diseases frequently pass into fresh produce and can carry disease to those who eat (see the cases of spinach, cantelopes, etc that have been infected with diseasese which have affected hundreds of people in dozens of states).

However, when you make preserves, you boil them and cook them higher than most disease cells can survive. Preserves should be pretty safe.


So do you not eat fresh foods? Anything grown outdoors is prone to vermin and insects. You can tell if a fruit or vegetable has been tasted tested by an animal. They don't go around licking or rubbing on your strawberries.


Yes, we eat fresh foods, but urban vermin are much more likely to be unhealthy, disease ridden or carriers than wildlife out in the rural and farm areas. Plus we tend to purchase produce that at least is monitored by the FDA. Homegrown, urban produce is far more likely to be problematic than farmed, regulated rural produce.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 19:50     Subject: Re:Would you eat this?
Anonymous wrote:I might be a little nervous about the raw strawberries. For the PP who wonders how they can be infected, rats are frequent carriers of disease. Diseases frequently pass into fresh produce and can carry disease to those who eat (see the cases of spinach, cantelopes, etc that have been infected with diseasese which have affected hundreds of people in dozens of states).

However, when you make preserves, you boil them and cook them higher than most disease cells can survive. Preserves should be pretty safe.


So do you not eat fresh foods? Anything grown outdoors is prone to vermin and insects. You can tell if a fruit or vegetable has been tasted tested by an animal. They don't go around licking or rubbing on your strawberries.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 19:44     Subject: Would you eat this?
Totally crazy. I'd take my changes with a possible rat vs. some migrant worker with no plumbing and no way to wash his hands after going to the bathroom in a field.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 18:50     Subject: Re:Would you eat this?
I might be a little nervous about the raw strawberries. For the PP who wonders how they can be infected, rats are frequent carriers of disease. Diseases frequently pass into fresh produce and can carry disease to those who eat (see the cases of spinach, cantelopes, etc that have been infected with diseasese which have affected hundreds of people in dozens of states).

However, when you make preserves, you boil them and cook them higher than most disease cells can survive. Preserves should be pretty safe.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 18:04     Subject: Would you eat this?
What does not kill you makes you stronger- Kelly clarkson.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 17:51     Subject: Would you eat this?
Buy a soil test kit! This might calm him down.
Vermin are definitely out in the fields, as well a pesticides.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 17:49     Subject: Would you eat this?
Are they grown in soil you put down? I used to live near Ft. Reno Park and got a little spooked by the arsenic scare a couple a years ago. But even then, who could resist a fresh strawberry?! I don't think I would eat one that a rat had partially eaten though. Ignore your husband and don't share. His loss!
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 17:41     Subject: Would you eat this?
I would eat it.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 17:40     Subject: Re:Would you eat this?
Maybe the pollution, as PP said? But we have one world and the air is polluted everywhere so when it rains, the pollution pollutes everywhere where it is raining.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 17:35     Subject: Would you eat this?
What exactly is he scared of? Pollution? How can rats harm the strawberries, other than eat them?
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 16:24     Subject: Would you eat this?
I think it is pretty odd. How does he think plants are grown of farms? There are snakes, rats, mice, etc out in the country too.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 16:15     Subject: Would you eat this?
Yes, it sounds crazy. I would eat homemade strawberry preserves any day! Bummer that your husband will miss out on the tastiness.
Anonymous
Post 06/02/2013 16:07     Subject: Would you eat this?
Strawberry preserves made from strawberries grown in an urban environment? I mean, we live on a leafy st. in NW, but we do have rats in the alley behind the house. Strawberries are grown out front, and they are delicious. DH is increasingly concerned (a germaphobe) and so my compromise is to wash in vinegar and then boil the living daylights out of them into preserves. Is it crazy that he still doesn't want me and dd to eat them?