Tainted Cilantro From Mexico

We all know that our border with Mexico is not secure

With no credible acts by this Administration for our safety to insure

Drugs and felons coming across in a steady stream

Intermingled with those aliens trying to grab a small piece of the American Dream

Today we find there are so more unwanted guests

Increase the list of the flow of unwanted we need to arrest

The U.S. is an agricultural power house with billions of dollars if food to Mexico to export

But we also grace our dinner tables and grocery shelves with billions of Mexican food imports

Now we find that for four years that cilanatro from Mexico is contaminated from human fecal waste

Cyclosporiasis that you cannot wash away, cannot see and unfortunately cannot taste

Mexican workers working in the growing fields

No toilets present when to the bowel movement one has to yield

380 cases and mounting, a lot of diarrhea, nausea and fatigue but no fatal cases

Just another example of the danger when third world sanitation policies our food sources embrace

To put the disease in a humorous light

As its sufferers are racing to their bathrooms in the middle of the night

Since a vacation in Mexico includes a tourista side trip

Stay at home, save the money, have some cilantro yet experience the tourista grip

© August 5, 2015, Michael P. Ridley aka the Alaskanpoet
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