Might be a stupid idea, but I was always taught to wash fruit bought from a store, etc before eating it. The idea behind it, the way I understood, as a kid, was more that everyone and their brother had handled that object, and you never knew where their hands had been, or anything else for that matter. Heck it could have been hauled back to the farm in a manure wagon for all anyone knew, or the store clerk setting it out could have left the restroom without washing his hands.
In any case the contamination is typically going to be on the outside of a fruit, mellon, or whatever. To that end washing it is the only sure way to know it's clean before cutting into it to eat, and the fact these folks didn't is no more the farmers fault than it is yours or mine. Heck why not make the argument that their 'nanny' the FDA didn't hammer home the advice to wash the items before consumption as not doing so could be hazardous to their health, so they are as culpable as the farmers? Heck millions are spend every year telling us how bad cigarettes are, how you need to wash your hands after using the restroom, how you need to handle raw meats to avoid contamination, etc, etc, so why is the same not done when it comes to another situation that has the potential to be just as deadly? Makes no sense at all to me.............
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