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Podcast: Food Chain Radio Podcast with Michael Olson
Episode: FARMING NATURE
Description: With Jo Ann Baumgartner, Executive Director, Wild Farm Alliance and
Sam Earnshaw, Executive Director, Hedgerows Unlimited
Back in 2006, a multistate outbreak of E. Coli O157:H7 killed three and sickened an additional 202. The source of that E. Coli was found to be spinach from California, and the cause was believed to be contamination from the spinach farm.
Consumers stopped buying the spinach, as well as other leafy green produce, and so growers had to leave their precious greens to go to seed in the fields.Â
Though the contaminated spinach came from o...