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Subject: [Leica] Oysters
From: jhnichols at lighttube.net (Jim Nichols)
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 23:09:00 -0600
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I would agree, Sonny, and where they are grown can be a clue to whether 
you should eat them or leave them alone.  If I recall correctly, there 
have been more outbreaks of sickness from veggies in the last couple of 
years than from meats. :-(

Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA

On 2/16/2014 10:11 PM, Sonny Carter wrote:
> Depends entirely upon what veggies you eat, how they are grown, cleaned 
> and prepared.
>
> Sent from my iPhone
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> Sonny Carter
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>> On Feb 16, 2014, at 9:12 PM, Jayanand Govindaraj <jayanand at gmail.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Simplest to turn vegetarian, far less health risk, on the whole...(-:
>> Cheers
>> Jayanand
>>
>>> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 10:44 PM,  <lrzeitlin at aol.com> wrote:
>>> Tina,
>>> This is why oysters were so cheap. Keep your medical insurance paid up. 
>>> The following is an extract from "PUFFIN: An Intracoastal Waterway Log 
>>> or 28 Days Before the Mast." I do hope conditions have changed since I 
>>> published this a couple of decades ago.
>>>
>>>
>>>         "We passed many fishing boats along the waterway in South 
>>> Carolina and a couple of oyster dredges. The oyster boats scoured the 
>>> bottom with a conveyer belt system that scooped up everything on the 
>>> river bed and brought it to the surface on its moving belt. Crewmen 
>>> picked out the desirable oysters and clams from amidst the old tires and 
>>> shoes before the belt rotated downward toward the bottom again. The 
>>> residue was dumped back in the water. These boats appeared to pay not 
>>> the slightest attention to the signs?posted every few hundred 
>>> yards?prohibiting oyster dredging in polluted areas. Raw oysters and 
>>> clams suddenly dropped several places on my seafood appetizer list.?
>>>
>>>
>>>         Several small boats were loaded so heavily with oysters that the 
>>> gunwales were only an inch or two above the water. A slight wave would 
>>> have swamped them and liberated the oysters. We stopped for the night at 
>>> Cedar Creek, the last potential anchorage before crossing Pamlico Sound."
>>>
>>>
>>> Larry Z
>>>
>>>
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In reply to: Message from lrzeitlin at aol.com (lrzeitlin at aol.com) ([Leica] Oysters)
Message from jayanand at gmail.com (Jayanand Govindaraj) ([Leica] Oysters)
Message from sonc.hegr at gmail.com (Sonny Carter) ([Leica] Oysters)