I heard the same. I hope they nail this down. All I know is I'm going to enjoy eating my own homegrowns all season.

Here's an AP link:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5ijaaf9rEEqJFRI_zJo1YK8TYcBFgD915DSBO1

I had someone tell me they bought a hamburger with no tomato and wanted to know how my tomatoes are doing. "Fine, want to start your own garden?" If this keeps up plus price increases of gas we may have to start guarding with a shotgun, lock gates and lie about having a garden.

If McD's tomatoes tasted great,I'd be willing to sign a disclaimer to "get a slice".

As it stands now,I don't see much improvement,other than adding moisture to a tasty "sandwich" that they are denying the people anyway. I liked Fish Fillet Sandwiches when they made them in the 70's. No tomatoes there though.

This is all my fault.

The day before the tomato salmonella scare news hit, I was looking at my garden and thinking about rising food and fuel prices. I thought, if something were to happen to the tomato market, we'd be sitting pretty. Then the next day, tomatoes were being taken off the shelves.

Oops, sorry.

MA

Dad was health inspector. He told me years ago..never by produce from mexico. Fields irrigated with humanure. I bet these tomatoes will found out to be from mexico. This will then become a political/illegal alien issue like the spinach thing. But I bet these were picked, tossed on the ground and contaminted there.

Yeah, I spent a year and a half in Germany and they used the same "humanure" the Mexicans use. Ever smell a honeywagon? Anyway, the plants were huge and the fruits bodacious. No-one got sick. It doesn't make sense to blame the Mixicans or whomever for an outbreak of Salmonella. Of course it could be the way the foods are handled. That's another issue.

Humanure is perfectly safe if composted at the right temperature. Having said that, I wouldn't eat a fresh, commercial turdmato even if they claimed the use of proper curing methods - not unless I was desperate and thoroughly washed the turdmato and then my hands.

Turdmato! lol

I don't know if "humanure" is the same as Compro but it is illegal to use Compro(USA at least)for fertilizing human food consumption plants because there is a lot of heavy metals present.

Plus a lot of psychotropic medication if it's my manure. You could probably get high off tomatoes grown in it.

That's Too Bad, as even that lowly excuse for a slice of tomato was the only thing remotely nutritious about Mac's hamburgers.

I'm growing my own tomatoes,that way,I'm safe! by the way, cooked tomatoes are okay-canned,sauce, ketchup,etc.

You guys are all thinking at 50,000 ft. Coming from a third world country where farming was the main stable, where do you think they go when they have to poop ?

I don't care if the human manure came from Charlize Theron or Lindsay Lohan, I still don't want it touching my food. It's the thought that is disgusting. I came from a third world country, I have seen all kinds of things as you imagine, and even I think human manure is disgusting.

You just might get high of a tomato fertlized by Linsday Lohan too.
Yes I noticed they had a tomato ban on at Wendy's too. Although underneath in bracktets "This in no way effects Wendy's tomato supply". Maybe Candian Wendy's? Who knows. Basically they're saying "but we didn't inhale".

The FDA needs to get on the ball! I am for less government, but this time their slow reaction is causing MILLIONS of dollars in lost tomato crops in FL. The FDA needs to 1. Identify plants source of orgin is Mexico. 2. Identify source is Florida and human waste or farm land run off in the field is the source.

Want to know more about this here in USA?

http://www.houstonpress.com/2005-03-31/news/wretched-excess/full

"I don't care if the human manure came from Charlize Theron or Lindsay Lohan, I still don't want it touching my food."

I agree, but, really, if you had to choose, which tomatoes would you rather eat? I'd pass up the Lindsay Lohan tomatoes and go straight for the Charlize Theron tomatoes, especially if they are Burgundy Travelers. (But only if I was forced to choose, I must reassert.)

Ewwe.
But I'd let George Clooney pee on my compost pile.

The strange thing is...my mil works in a "chain" family restaurant and she heard about this warning a week ago and they pulled tomatoes from their menus. McD's is a week later?

They also rec'd warning about cantaloupe awhile ago but I hadn't heard it on the news. Same thing... dookie in the melon patch.

As soon as the media stops flapping their lips, the problem will all go away.

And Mc'D's doesn't charge any less for the burgers with no tomatoes so they are making millions while the tomato growers are loosing millions.