Meat "n" No Veg !

**Anton** · 15-04-2009, 06:10 PM

Dear food lovers a few days ago i read an article online to do with the connection between water polution and fresh vegetables apparently there was an official directive from the government encouraging people not to eat too many vegetables because the water used to grow them etc would normally come from a polluted source now is this possible to have polluted vegetables if you are going to water them with polluted water and how polluted would the water be, has anybody heard of people getting sick from this situation :?:

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**gilbert de jong** · 15-04-2009, 08:39 PM

Hi,
Never heard of people getting sick...but it's a fact that if you water plants, with chemical nutrients added to the water, the plant is affected by the water.
So it would seem logical, that if one uses poluted water for vegetables, it would affect the vegetable too. And by eating that, it would have consequentions for the health of a person. But usualy not short-term, but only after long-term exposure to the poluted source. By the way, it depends ofcourse on how 'dirty' the food is, I mean how concentrated the poison is. The government can suggest all they want, about not eating vegetables, but reality is most people don't have the money to buy meat. So then they would only have the rice left, which is btw also watered from the same source???
The plants I was talking about, you know what kinda plant that is, hahaha. Two weeks before harvesting, they need to be watered with only water, without addetives. That's for washing the plant clean of any excess chemical stuff. Don't know if it would work on poluted vegetables too, and how would someone know when dealing with those vegetables?
Friendly greetings.........Gilbert.

**ronb** · 16-04-2009, 12:04 PM

Originally Posted by gilbert de jong

Hi,
Never heard of people getting sick...but it's a fact that if you water plants, with chemical nutrients added to the water, the plant is affected by the water.

There was food poisoning in California a couple of years back that was caused by salad greens that had been irrigated with contaminated water - this is water contaminated with bacteria - not chemicals. I think that some of the spinach farms were adjacent to feedlots for cattle which could make the irrigation water a bit shitty. The vegetables are harvested and quickly packaged for supermarket sale, then chilled as they quickly move to market. So the contaminants in water droplets on the leaves are well looked after as it moves from the farm to consumer. A California government report on what farmers should do is here
http://www.cdph.ca.gov/pubsforms/Doc...Dole032007.pdf
In Bali, a few things probably work in our favour:
:arrow: spray irrigation of vegetable crops is less common
:arrow: heavily polluted water sources are less common
:arrow: the vegetables dry off as they move to market which would reduce the impact of any contaminants that may have been in irrigation water

I hope that makes you all feel better.

**mimpimanis** · 16-04-2009, 12:35 PM

I know in Lombok they say you should not feed small children the water spinach because of the water it is grown in... if it isnt safe for children I dont want to eat it either!

**Anton** · 16-04-2009, 02:46 PM

So i guess my next question is what do you guys do when out shopping in any market in bali do you buy the local vegetables and how do you know if they were produced with clean water ?
With boiled veg does this purify the veg from germs ?

The plants I was talking about, you know what kinda plant that is, hahaha.

Gil was this the business you were talking about that is immune from the financial crisis :P

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**ronb** · 17-04-2009, 08:47 AM