This Failed Experiment Is Still Causing Farmers Trouble Almost a Decade Later
Nine years ago, an E. coli outbreak led to an expensive, labor-intensive change to the way a lot of our farms operated. But things didn’t get better—in fact, they got worse. In 2006, there was a particularly nasty, in some case even fatal, E. coli outbreak spreading around the nation. The source? California’s spinach fields.…
