Factory Farms and Foodborne Illness: One Family's Tragedy

[@Jlmag]

So so sorry for your loss. Breaks my heart for all our children.

[@ameliawilliamsondestefano3885]

I am so sorry for the needless loss of your child. Thank you for sharing his story.

[@sheilahdang11]

the FDA is not cowering to the food industry, they are profiting along with them. I am very sorry for the loss of your boy.

[@lucystrider728]

What important information and such a horrible loss. I had no idea the germs could be inside the leaves!

[@irreverentjules-240]

Wow m heart just dropped to my stomach. In these short few minutes I felt like I knew Cooper and did not expect him to die. So sad for your family and am glad you found a way to share his memory.💔

[@JohnDoe-ip2hx]

I did not know that factory animal farms were so close to vegetable farms!😢 God Bless this family!❤

[@irreverentjules-240]

Same here.

[@PurePrairie]

Same here! I also didn't know that ecoli gets into the leaf or structure of the plant, like lettuce and can't be washed off! 😳 I am done buying alot of this stuff at grocery stores. We grow most of our own lettuce, but certain times of the year I buy it and I triple wash the "triple" washed lettuce when I bring it home. But, learning from this video, that's still not safe enough.

[@JoDo777]

@@PurePrairie ❤👍

[@TheFabFarmer]

Grow your own or support a local farmer. Thank you for sharing this tragedy to spread awareness!

[@TheLastFarmer-mg8st]

Facts 👍

[@uarestrong76]

I only buy meat from our local organic sustainable farm. Is slightly more expensive after processing but it's worthwhile and we buy it in bulk for at least two years. I have a lot of health issues and am celiac so food is something I take seriously. I also garden.

[@marley7659]

Supporting a local farmer doesn’t stop this from happening. Not unless you know for sure they aren’t getting water from a contaminated area.

[@Imana23]

Local farmers do not sell organic though. Not all of them.

[@rainspirit3973]

Thank you for this clear message. It would be good to hear this in their video. 💛🙏🏽💛

[@nicoler9522]

My heart breaks for this family. I'm from Belleville, it's sad to see someone suffer like this but especially so close to home. I'm so happy you found an outlet for your grief and choose to be the change you want to see.

[@norxgirl1]

Condolences to Cooper's family....I am so sorry.....

[@veganviber852]

I am so sorry to hear of such a sad loss that never needed to occur. Your farm is a beautiful way to honour your little coopers life & help to protect & make sure no one else suffers in the way you have. You are truly beautiful & inspirational and using your hard loss to be something positive and life changing for so many with your farm & mission for safe & healthy food. Love from Australia 🇦🇺 ❤️

[@ResPieces]

im in Ottawa...my heart aches for them....oh this broken world...

[@skytunes86]

They're right. We deserve healthily grown food here in America... Bill.

[@lw8356]

Cooper's family, I'm so sorry for your loss. It is heartbreaking.

[@ambujkn]

So sad to hear that. 😢

[@feltlikeitbydebs]

My heart goes out to you all. Thanks for sharing and making a difference. ❤ Australia

[@bcc7777]

THIS will be the first thing I've ever grown! Thank you for the inspiration!

[@Chucker973]

We need much better regulation on irrigation water and food production, this report is very concerning!

[@computerlearingchannel4257]

I think regulation is what's causing this.

[@t.h.8475]

And testing. I believe testing is done, but food is shipped before results are back. This is an issue in factories. NPR did reports on it.

[@justbecauseican1410]

Rest in peace beautiful soul🙏. I wish the family strength trough this hardship. May god protect your family.

[@HalifaxPeacock]

Oh my goodness… this poor family. 💔

[@1summerflower]

Tragic how animals and people are just seen as a product and everything is so sloppy !😭🙏🏼❤️

[@j3nnuhh]

I’m so sorry you lost your boy. I can’t imagine.

[@kimberley-A1]

Between the industrial farming and the pharmaceutical industries, it makes many want to go back to homesteading and naturopathic remedies. So very sorry for their loss…

[@bcc7777]

We all should.

[@saltwaterinmyveins]

My would be 90 y/o Dad told me how he never remembers folks getting food poisoning.

[@evaj558]

They used to raise their own back in the day. That helped more than people realize

[@TravellingGypsy]

He doesn’t remember because he’s 90. Food poisoning has been happening since the dawn of civilization. JFC don’t be so dumb.

[@midnull6009]

...that's a lie. Because FDA was first created by local ppl to oversee local farmers from poisonings their consumers. Farmers would put saw dust into milk or dilute the milk to get more bang for the buck. Back in the day it was actually a lot worse. They'd use human waste to fertilize their produce.... And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

[@cynhains]

I am so sorry for your loss. Thank you for sharing. We, the people, Americans, meed to know. WE need to stand up together to demand that harmful practices must stop.

[@anitasullivan7901]

You are good people, may God bless you with every good thing.

[@vivalaleta]

I am terribly sorry for your loss. I've never experienced the tragedy of losing a child. Regenerative ag heals the land and makes a farmer not worried about chemicals or next year's crop - at least not much.

[@Tamara-id1pe]

Regenerative ag doesn’t prevent cross contamination though

[@TyrooShino]

Was just in the US, was cautious of the food. But I also fell for "triple wash" meaning "safe to eat" yeah. Never again when I visit the US. Cooking the leafy greens.

[@lovejoypeace9424]

This lettuce was grown most likely in California but shipped to Canada so Canadians also have to be aware of the dangers, it’s not just an American issue Sadly I heard about fresh produce fields so close to contaminated feed lots, many years ago so this is certainly not a new problem. Sadly there seems to be no guarantee of safety

[@lovejoypeace9424]

Another selfish example of profits over people sadly. I’m so sorry for your loss of precious Cooper. This was American produce shipped into Canada. We have very little choice in the dead of winter or anytime for most on our food availability. Really there are hundreds of millions of people at risk daily unaware of what we are consuming. The federal agencies really don’t seem to care. Shouldn’t our food safety be the last worry that we need to be concerned with? Yes….. So special to see you took your grief and channeled it into helping others and yourselves by providing a safe version of what should already be the case.

[@ashleyb777]

Strange. I grew up on a farm and our huge vegetable garden was just on the other side of the fence where our cattle and horses were. My parents always used the composted manure for fertilizer for the garden. Not one problem ever.

[@karenscribner7031]

Things have changed.

[@sam12587]

The animals in the facilities are often given antibiotics even when not ill because they are so crammed together that the germs are just much greater, stronger. It’s gross conditions. Edited to fix typoes :)

[@TheSouthernLady777]

Right. Something does not add up here.

[@marvona3531]

But your parents surely don‘t use contaminated water, antibiotics, fungicides, chemicals, jabs, ....and so on.

[@TheSouthernLady777]

@@karenscribner7031 big government is the thing that changed. People think government will take the risk out of life but all they do is take the freedom from the human.

[@KmmBev]

The Human Harm Tax should be something everyone gets each month for the harm that these companies are causing our families. Wishing you peace, I'm so sorry you lost your son. Buy from local organic farms and support regenerative farming.

[@FinanceMonkey]

Why is this seen only 65000 times?! This is a big issue... Its great to see that after feeling so powerless from the situation, they have totally turned that into stepping up against big agri. They are the way forward, good luck!

[@SpiritualWarrior777]

Absolute insanity when there can be greenhouses all over the world far away from industrial farms that can use filtered water! Jack in the Box in the 1988 had a huge ecoli outbreak in their hamburgers. One child in preschool had one of these hamburgers and it killed 28 children at the preschool from ecoli contamination and something like 60 adults died as well as hundreds getting sick enough to go to the hospital. The amount of recalls done on foods is insane. Peanut Butter, frozen foods, meat, dairy items, fruits and vegetables!! All of it has been recalled at one time or another!!

[@JoDo777]

Thank you for sharing ❤❤

[@Concerned97]

Very sorry to hear of your loss. I personally like to sterilize all leafy greens in hot water before consuming.

[@doricetimko5403]

How do we undo the damage? I’m so happy this issue is gaining attention

[@theresekirkpatrick3337]

Everything we import from South America is also watered with gray water or bio solids. 😢 learn to grow what you can. The fraud and deception association is doing nothing to protect us

[@stefffy1000]

Support your farmers markets!! God bless this family. Thank you for speaking about this!

[@traciannveno]

Stop buying from outside the USA. And support the small farmers.

[@gabbyA7]

This is true. There is a dairy down the street and the irrigation canal is right next to it. They haul cattle in and out and guess where those trucks pass over? That’s right over the irrigation canal

[@albrightfs]

reminder and reason to raise and grow your own food. DO not rely on the government to keep you safe because they dont care .. only care for $$$.. I'm deeply sorry for this loss which is not shown enough.

[@jennycurtis4447]

Heartbreaking for these parents and others who have lost loved ones with E. coli. Keep all leafy, green and other vegetables away from livestock! Livestock need to be the priority because they are the healthiest most rich products on the planet. Vegetables need to be moved to places that are not Necessary for livestock.

[@carmenortiz5294]

I stopped buying produce from Canada, as in Aldi, have been experimenting growing more in my back yard. I don't use any chemicals, regardless how safe they claim to be. (Don't buy from California either.) Since it's supposed to be an early winter in Minnesota, I am also experimenting growing indoors, by repoting things to test growing them under lights. (But I do have a very large commercial metal shelving unit that I got on clearance from Home Depot, I then added lights and set it up in my basement.)

[@BBB-to4cc]

“If you don’t know where it’s from don’t eat it” what the hell? That’s not the consumers job!

[@khammers]

So sad….

[@earthtreeangel]

Factory farms shouldn’t be allowed.

[@midnull6009]

This is an unfortunate freak accident.

[@CapitalismDeathSpiral]

Humans are biological spiritual creatures. We all need clean healthy food for humanity to thrive.

[@christdiedforoursins1467]

Shaw,, i can't believe he died ,very sad so Sorry .I heard of e- coli on lettuces and its dangers never knew a child could die from this .

[@cgeorge-bq3fq]

I quit lettuce and parsley etc i get my nutritional needs in other sources, I'm so sorry for this family and others.

[@dagmarfrerking2235]

I'm sorry for the loss of their son. Their idea of growing greens safely in his memory is great, but it looks like they're growing hydroponically. That's not a good solution. While it can prevent the food-borne illness issues, it produces veggies lacking in nutrients.

[@dianesavant2818]

I'm so sorry for your loss. Factory farming kills.

[@MadameChic1]

Our ancestors ate mostly meat. Cows eat grass and ferment in their four stomach chambers and make all the nutrients from the grass that we need. Nature is perfect. Our ancestors didn't cultivate anything.

[@nancycole-auguste6614]

This is because a small diversified farm has a balance of bacteria and elements that prevents disease, virus, infections. Example: the bacteria on a goat cancels the bacteria on a horse and they bond as companions. That's why people say to an upset farmer: " Someone get yer goat?" Good human bacteria wards off all kinds of problems. Killing problems or removing negatives is not the answer. ADDING the positives that are missing is the answer. Example: If mealy bugs are eating your garden it is because you don't have a wasp nest somewhere.

[@JoDo777]

I didn't know this! Thank you!❤

[@Mindy-xw7zt]

This is why I don't eat ... I don't even know what to eat anymore

[@youtellme2731]

When did this happen recently?

[@diannealice3601]

What a tragic loss. I'm sorry, but also human waste is used for fertilizer.😢

[@merryk8noashley]

we all need to be grosing our own stuff too. Lots can’t do much because they live in apartments/whatnot but ppl who have a backyard can do a LOT!! I do cucumbers, tomatoes, peppers rn but plan to do more since I have lots of space! is there a test of e coli before we send out? Could workers be shitting on the fields?! Immigration is a wholeass thing/ wages for any farmer are a wholeass thing… This is really sad for the family, especially because health care is so advanced these days so you think you’re in good hands going to the doctor. I’m very freaked out now about e. coli etc now I didn’t know it was this fricken bad!!!!!!

[@merryk8noashley]

Yeah man, and I babysit. I’m hella sad about this kid. And I won’t say that “his death furthers action to change farming procedures” because you don’t care about farming procedures, nor anything else, when this happens. I’m really sorry.

[@marley7659]

I’d say. The only way to stop this major problem. Stop funding subsidies to animal farmers. We need CAFO’s to disappear and meat needs to be an extremely expensive product. If we can reduce the crop land used for animal feed. We can also secure much more water resources. Reduce livestock animal size to a few million in north america. Instead of the billions that exist. If we free up land and water resources. We can dramatically fix food insecurity problems in the US. No more junk and cheap meat, corn sugar, etc…. We just need local produce farmers and grain farmers. Having mixed crops in their fields. Getting the government to subsidize local produce farmers.

[@thatlady8388]

The fields in the Salina’s Valley are mainly “organic” as well. It’s a lie.

[@Spyrit2011]

Factory farms have got to go. Same with growing plants that are not bioavailable to humans. Bring back the wild perennial grasslands to maintain small and mid size farms with 100% grassfed beef, goats, sheep, and dairy versions of these animals. These smaller farms can network with a central processing, no more feedlots. How are thousands of livestock being well managed care from veterinarians and ferriers? It's not possible. As someone who eats a carnivore diet I know that 100% grassfed and pasture raise raise is far and away more healthier than grain fed. The perennial grasses are deep rooted and have been managed by millions of large ruminants for thousands of years, without a single drop of brown water coming from these places. Destroying wild perennial grasslands in favor of short lived plants, is not environmentally friendly. Humans do not thrive on low bioavailability plant foods. Humans are hindgut fermenters and have a vestigial cecum, this has an extremely limited capacity for absorbing nutrients from plant foods. Factoring farming has been a hindrance not a benefit to human health. For Pete's sake everyone COOK YOUR FOOD! DO NOT EAT RAW!

[@ChrisNP87]

This doesn't surprise me! Good ole America puts money above all else. It's almost 2025 and it's only getting worse... No accountability.

[@Zenzilla14201]

Vegetable and fruit farms should be located far far away from slaughterhouses to prevent potential contamination! This isn’t good enough.

[@scott6252]

The problem must be in the washing and processing in ment to eat raw produce, because most gardeners use cow and other types of manure for fertilizer to grow them.

[@marvona3531]

That is terrible! So sorry that this happened! In Germany we have a great product, since 1904, that is an extract out of the flowers of salvia officials and coloquinte and combined with aromatherapy, you will be get healthy again, if this happened. And a special selfmade yoghurt with fantastic alive cultures, to strengthen the intestinal.

[@youtellme2731]

So heart broken for your loss. Was the lettuce organic. Even when you wasted it again, you can't get rid of ecoli with anything . Also no way of knowing when something has ecoli ?

[@TheButterflySoulfire]

Terrible! The only way they will change is if they are hit where it hurts: their pockets. Boycott for 2 weeks and see how they respond!

[@soulfireonfire6423]

Heart breaking and also gives one a ray of hope! Knowing more and more people are waking up to the fact that we live in a country that has been taking the safety and health of the people of this country last , amongst other areas of significance where we are taken last also. Many countries around the world have certain chemicals that they have banned from using in food production. Not the good ol USA!! People should be asking why! Demanding it stop! Wanna know why? Because there isn’t an answer good enough why chemicals known to cause neurological disorders , cancer, diabetes, etc should ever be put on our food. Just like there isn’t any reasons why so many farms are able to get away with the procedures they are using when it comes to irrigation of there crops when they also have a mass amount of farm animals on the same land. There isn’t any excuse from the FDA and any other organization that is supposed to regularly audit these farms who mass produce both . What’s their excuse? There isn’t one because it’s common sense. Mots criminal, incompetence and corruption!

[@MaliV.Williams]

"Chickens Coming Home to ROOST"!!

[@ginamarie5575]

Such a gross world now ….. be safe . Do your own research. Don’t assume it’s safe or clean . Grow your own food if you can . Even if it’s organic doesn’t mean it’s safe

[@CapitalismDeathSpiral]

This is why I have raw off grid land and slowly modify the land in balance with nature whom then provides me clean healthy food. No pesticides and no motive for evil money.

[@jenniferromero571]

So pretty much we shouldnt eat anything by that logic. I personally can not afford to buy from farmers.

[@eagledice2008]

They should have sued the FDA

[@jking2586]

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@roger236]

🙏

[@homehouse2305]

They are not just sitting at home like most of us. they are literally doing something about it. i wash my lettuce with baking soda, sometimes just rinse with vinegar then rinse again. the most important thing at least to me is prayer. to GOD. the father of Jesus christ and his name is in the Bible is Jehova.

[@jolantagoetter6224]

I’m so glad I’m carnivore

[@shawnsanders2182]

I'M SO SORRY FOR YOUR LOSS. The GOVERNMENT is the cause of all this LET'S JUST feed AMERICA Allowing the farmers to slow down and do Practices right

[@Jules-740]

I hope we stop factory farming.

[@EmilyBieman]

Something is not adding up in this story. People have been using manure to fertilise crops since the beginning of time.

[@TheSouthernLady777]

Exactly... and look at how the infomation was presented.

[@marvona3531]

Yes, but your ancients use no antibiotics, jabs, fungicides and pesticides, .... that‘s the difference! And the livestock had mostly a natural lifesituation.

[@EWG]

Manure, when composted, can be used effectively as a fertilizer. However, our research has indicated that when not properly managed, it can contaminate nearby waterways which are used to irrigate leafy green farms and lead to E. coli and other contamination issues. Fresh, non-composted manure is really not used on lettuce fields when lettuce is growing because of the bacteria contamination risk. It is sometimes applied to vegetable fields after harvest when there are not still plants in the ground, but rare for it to be applied when there's plants growing. Most manure that is used to fertilize crops is applied to fields growing commodity crops like corn and soybeans, where the crops are processed after the fact, which would reduce contamination chances.

[@daryapeppo2359]

Well animals shouldn't be so many too close together. May be they need to stop concentration camps for animals?

[@TheSouthernLady777]

@@daryapeppo2359 Good point!

[@aperson1181]

do your own research...rhamnosus gg and lactis BB-12

[@birgenschwendinger3604]

And only natural washin soap water!

[@firsttimemommy3735]

AMERICA NEEDs to be a BLUE ZONE!

[@angelaonthego]

Umm; before you blame this on the animals-how about looking in to the bio solid (aka human sewage sludge) fertilizer being used (and sometimes mandated! Or hidden and used by unsuspecting farmers!!!)

[@melmentereoldridge6919]

982 Frami Mission

[@cynthiadeg9206]

Vote Trump so Kennedy can look into this

[@alanharris3575]

Your government is not coming to save you😢

[@revonda5204]

Money talks....😡😡😡

[@shirleyhodge3524]

Also consider contaiminated child vaxs

[@kimiko54-h3b]

Stop eating food from animal factory farms!!!

[@TheSouthernLady777]

Manure is a great fertilizer. All of the farmers I have ever known have used it. Why would it all of a sudden cause e-coli? Why open the video with a gut-wrenching hook unless you want to turn well-meaning people against farming? The problem is not the farm. The problem is the large-scale production and build-up of problems in the ecosystem as a result.

[@dweisner9749]

The way thousands of cattle are bunched together in a “factory” situation is totally unhealthy for the cattle, so the E. coli can thrive in their gut and be expelled in their manure. The problem is that that gets into the water that is used to water the plants and is absorbed by the plants. It is far from the way people farmed years ago. In fact not a farm at all!

[@catejordan7244]

Farmers used aged and composted manures because that is what kills off pathogens. It’s also the concentrations from these feed lots. Also the feed lots heavily use antibiotics, and other drugs and chemicals.

[@EWG]

The issue with vegetables and E. coli is not from direct manure application on fields but instead from contamination of irrigation ditches. Large-scale production is definitely the problem. It's the large CAFOs that are most risky for contaminating the irrigation ditches.

[@zubovaka]

The root of this problem is not a bad regulation, it’s - capitalism. You all don’t mind to benefit from it but don’t like the other side of the coin - that all decisions are based on profitability, regardless how many people would suffer.

[@TheSouthernLady777]

The root of this problem is an agenda to control the food industry, not capitalism.

[@TravellingGypsy]

How do you not know what e-coli is when you’re an adult in Canada?! JFC