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The Honorable Michael O. Leavitt, Secretary of Health and Human Services
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C. 20201
ph: 202-619-0257, toll-free: 1-877-696-6775
email: mike.leavitt@hhs.gov
web mail: www.hhs.gov/feedback.html
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Subject: Salmonella Outbreak

Dear Secretary Leavitt,

I commend your department for efforts to link the recent rash of salmonella to tomatoes or jalapeno peppers. Unfortunately, this explanation fails to address the root cause: the meat industry.

America's food source will never be safe until the Food and Drug Administration recognizes the vast overproduction of factory-farmed animals. Salmonella organisms grow in the intestinal tract of a living creature. Tomatoes and peppers have no intestinal tract. Consequently, plants are not the origin, but rather, the conduit for infectious bacteria.

Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) contribute to nearly three-quarters of all water contamination issues in the nation's rivers and streams, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. CAFOs expel 130 times as much fecal matter as the entire human population. If feces float in irrigation water, salmonella may pollute plant surfaces and invade rootlets.

Waste-filled lagoons, such as those used at hog factories, contain dusts, molds, bacterial toxins, and some 400 vaporizable elements like nitrogen, hydrogen sulfide and methane. When nitrogen particles convert to gas, they disperse ammonia mist over 50 miles. Some transform into particles that can move over a 250-mile range. In 2001, the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy noted remnants of undiluted animal urine in rainwater.

Toxic produce begins with confined livestock operations. Tomatoes and peppers are merely the last stop. I respectfully ask you to examine the real culprit in your efforts to safeguard human health.

Sincerely,

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