As if we Canadians needed another reason to stop buying produce imported from the US (and this is likely to get worse before it gets better, and may in fact not get any better with MAGA / MAHA in charge).

From the post … “So while the experts are telling Canadians traveling to the US to be careful about produce down there, I’m going to say the part they’re too polite to say up here:

Stop buying American produce.

Not as a tantrum. As a completely rational risk decision. Their inspection regime is running on fumes, their surveillance radar is switched off, their foreign inspections are at record lows, and their Health Secretary thinks Wi-Fi causes leaky brain. When the people whose job is to catch the poop parasite have all been fired, “I’ll pass on the California romaine, thanks” isn’t paranoia. It’s just reading the room.

• Buy Canadian. Ontario greenhouse tomatoes, BC berries, Quebec everything. The little flag on the package has never meant more.

• Buy Mexican, buy Peruvian, buy anything that still funds inspectors.

• Cook your greens if you’re unsure — cyclospora dies at 158°F. Heat is the one thing that doesn’t care about federal budget cuts.

• And when the grocery store puts the US stuff on sale to move it? That’s not a deal. That’s a dare.

We already stopped buying their bourbon over a trade war. We can absolutely stop buying their lettuce over the ass-blasting sewage parasite their own government stopped watching for.”