29th person dies in cantaloupe listeria outbreak

Taylor Moore
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29th Person Dies in Cantaloupe Listeria Outbreak
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http://www.nctimes.com/business/th-person-dies-in-canatloupe-listeria


The article that I picked is about people who are dieing because of tainted cantaloupes. Twenty nine people died after eating the tainted cantaloupes in Indiana,Louisiana, Maryland, and many other places. The cantaloups were grown at Jenson Frams in Colorado. There is an outbreak of listeria after cantaloups were sent out.

In chapter two I learned about how the Indians died of diseases that settlers brought over. England,France, and Spain all brought over illness to the Indians. This relates to what we are learning in class because when the farm grew the cantaloupes in Colorado and sent them out to the stores ,it carried an illness. The illness killed many people who ate it.

It connects to my life because I could buy something from the store and it could be tainted. There are many stories of food coming from other countries that are tainted. People have died from this.

In my opinion I think that its sad that the farms didn't know that the cantaloupes were tainted. I would feel really bad if I knew that I killed 29 people. I hope that the settlers felt bad for the people that they killed.