Farm laborers pee and E. Coli on your organic food?

When I worked at a production organic farm, the only bathroom was a 20 minute round trip and the managers frowned upon us attending the call of nature, drinking water and, at times, even chatting. There was profit to be made and they wanted every drop of effort they could squeeze out of us.

So what did my fellow Mexican workers and us apprentices do? While the guys could pee off to the sides, women peed behind the truck. Where was the truck parked? Next to the rows for loading. What happened when the irrigation was turned on or it rained? The urine went down into the rows of veggies. After I completed my contract at the farm I mentioned this to OSHA (Occuptional Safety and Health). Unless a current worker complains or OSHA sees it, OSHA fails to do anything.

So when I keep reading this stuff about refraining from washing veggies, I cringe. Farm working conditions are really like slave labor camps. We are stressed and pee right next to the food. WAKE UP! Even if you are into UT you want the mid stream urine rather than the first and final part, carrying sediment and bacteria.

If we did make it to the distant outhouse to have a bowel movement, there failed to be handwashing facilities. So please know, raw veggie eaters, you have diverse people peeing in the fields, without being able to washing their hands after a bowel movement, birds are pooping on the plants, and the farmers, should all the berries fall on the pavement at the farmers market replace them back in their containers and fail to let the customer know, since as one of the eager to be a farmer co-worker said, "it is the customers' responsibility to ask about safety".....

I think folks should cultivate their own dirt and add it like a topping rather than risk getting a host of infections with unknown sources of albeit OG produce. If you look at the parasite forum on CA, it is one of the busiest and ghastliest forums.

PLEASE:Use your common sense. The vegans who refrain from washing their food or hands and survive are either endowed with a strong immunity or they do have parasites.

Carefully grow your own food/dirt if you must have it unwashed....

here is more about my experience working on an organic farm:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPCn1KKpiqE&feature=channel_page
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