Panic

I remember those fields when we lived in a farm house in Salisbury, MD.

clipped from news.yahoo.com Tomato growers: Salmonella scare damages industry By STEVE SZKOTAK, Associated Press Writer RICHMOND, Va. - The 6,000 acres of tomatoes grown on Virginia's sea-swept Eastern Shore were never implicated in the national salmonella outbreak — they were still on the vine weeks after people starting getting sick. Since the government announced it was investigating whether tomatoes caused the outbreak that began in April, the nation's tomato industry estimates it has lost more than $100 million. Health investigators have not able to find tomatoes that contained the salmonella strain that sickened 1,220 people, and the government on Thursday lifted its salmonella warning involving tomatoes. "The damage has been done. I don't think we'll ever get over it," said Madonia, sales manager for East Coast Brokers & Packers, which grows 4,000 acres on the Eastern Shore. Madonia said it took too long for the government to rule out tomatoes in the salmonella outbreak.