Anway, I haven't commented. And I suspect much more will come to light. I've been waiting for a couple things, essentially.

One is for farm business to be harmed --->layoffs ---> Mexican farmworkers made destitute. And perhaps in someone's mind, this would mean Mexican immigrants would have to leave the country. (Or just be poor and unhappy?) And this would be the plan of whomever is (possibly) planting E. Coli in the spinach, or just to affect a long-term "staff reduction." Less work for migrants, right? Less "jobs Americans won't do."

Who did the wrong thing? How did this happen? But thank God it's just E. coli. Look at what a terrorist could do if they poisoned our meat supply."

—Lauren Krizansky, shopper

Or, perhaps a motive would be to cast "Illegals" as people who could, if angered (or who know what reason would be needed for those "fiery" Mexicanos to flip!!!) poison all of us.

Of course, even if this were a plan, it couldn't go that smoothly. Because how do you leave a country if you have no money? They would only end up a burden on society...although one way to answer that "flaw" in the plan would be to draw a line between this and the oh-so-mysterious Halliburton interment camps being built in the USA....

Another flaw in such a plan (were it to exist) would be that not only undocumented immigrants work at those farms! (My papi (as a boy), and mi Nanita and abuelo did, years ago.) A lot of people would be hurt in such a plan; a lot of American families.

Now, continuing on the exploration of such a possible plot, I figured that harm to farm business could come in a few ways. But one would surely be people no longer trusting the produce, and not buying it. Another could be inspections that drove those fearing la migra away.

Granted, I don't have any basis for actually thinking this is happening. But I'm still waiting for more to surface. Maybe I'm just hypersensitized to the ways o' Rove. But when I begin reading article after article about farmworkers being laid off, spinach not being stocked, and speculations on Spinach-Qaeda I had to ponder out loud, finally. (You know. So later, I can say I Told Ya So!) After all, if one is going to believe that our own government was involved with the WTC attacks (which I do), then why not believe that someone else (whether part of this administration or just emboldened by the actions of our current national "moral compass") could poison the food supply to achieve some other political aim? Doesn't have to be the same people. I'm just saying with all this anti-immigrant energy and sentiment, to not be suspicious of such a "coincidental" happening in the middle of it would simply be naïve.

Officials with the Food and Drug Administration said Friday that spinach grown anywhere outside California's Salinas Valley is safe to eat."

Mercury News, Sep 23 2006

My newspaper today tells me the same thing. Spinach grown outside of California is safe. "Consumers can buy Spinach again; they just need to figure out how to tell where their Spinach was grown." And that's interesante, idn't it? How it's California—home of the risingest "Hispanic" census numbers—that is deemed the toxic state? Just interesting. That's all I'm sayin'.