Hold the tomatoes!

Sure there is a problem but how did we get here. We produce food in the same fashion we produce wooden chairs, as quickly and as inexpensively as possible with little regard for the process. There is however one big difference between the two, one nourishes the body of this country and the other we sit on. Until we realize the difference and treat food production with more importance we will have more of these problems. Food should not have a corporate cloned face, it's what we eat! We put it in our bodies. Crappy food makes crappy people and then who will make the chairs. A tomato is not a chair and the production of it should not resemble that of a chair. Let's get more local/regional farms going again and problems such as this will become more local and not a national crisis. Trust me, there's more in this pipe line. Remember all the spinach problems because all of our spinach comes from one or two farms?!? Yup, all our eggs are in one basket. We must do better. This problem isn't going away.

People have died from Salmonella. Everyone who eats tomatoes is not in perfect health. The elderly, young children and other groups are at risk.

Pat and Oscars in San Diego is still putting tomatoes in their Greek salads

Nooooooooo! So sad.

All this talk about tomatoes really makes me want some, like really bad. I've actually never wanted tomatoes this bad in my life...Damn.

among other places, fast food chains like McDonalds have pulled tomatoes off their menus Except grape salad tomatoes, I did not see a lowering in price of the sandwiches that used to have tomatoes

This begs one question. Is the problem on the inside or outside of the tomato? If, what I think, it is on the outside what happened to washing off your fruit and vegis?? If it is, this "scare" is trashing the farmer because someone is not washing their hands or it may be intentional. We must stay on our toes now or ? Thanks.

The FDA does not even know what country or state the
tomatoes came from !
Nice Work !!

145 salmonella cases/304 million (POPULATION of America) = NOT something to actually worry about unless you are PARANOID!

And yet hundreds of people die every day from properly prescribed and administered FDA approved drugs without any OUTRAGE- How interesting...

I like tomatoes but I'm not at a loss for not being able to have them should I be denied. I'll live.

I'd still eat the tomatoes. I wanted some today and was denied.

I went to Taco Bell today and I was wondering why my chalupa tasted so bland.

Fast food restaurants should be pulling everything off of their shelves... They're disgusting.

The FDA should step in, or someone. This is crazy. Poison domestic goods, poison goods from China, I am not for the government regulating everything. But some oversight is neccessary and vital.

kevinthedude - no worries. The chemicals and pesticides in that double cheeseburger will kill the salmonella - NOT, but it will kill you eventually.

Most likely, you can blame Monsanto Corp. (the new terrorists) for the outbreak and any deaths that come from it.

You see, for the monstrous DNA mutations to become effective - you know, genetically altered food, they have to use diseases like salmonella and E-coli to "express" the evil genes.

Trouble is - they are experimenting with you as the Ginny pig, and by the way, thank you very much for you personal sacrifices and faltering health in your old age in the name of science. My hats off to you for senseless, I mean selfless sacrifice.

There goes my plans to becoming vegetarian.

I grow tomatoes and peppers as well but they aren't in season for me at the moment. I can't have them year round. I suppose that's part of the problem our pre processed use of materials.

i grow my tomateoes, they taste better, and are a hell of alot more fresh

This is exactly why I grow my own Tomatoes!

What if they're home grown tomatoes? I had a double cheeseburger from McDonalds maybe half an hour ago and I sliced some tomatoes from home and put them on it...

This is what happens when you have unregulated illegal workers picking your food. No regulation, no inspections, no standards, the FDA doesn't care, the Consumer Protection Agency, they don't have time, EPA is pre-occupied, HHS is not even in the loop. So it goes on until someone dies. Remember spinach a couple of years ago? Exact same thing. Just get it to the consumer faster and cheaper, damn the torpedos!