Girl Stung By Scorpion at Wal-Mart

[One Sweet World]

I just saw this at Wake Up Wal-Mart -- a girl at a Wal-Mart was stung by a scorpion in watermelon from Mexico. I guess it's better than eating toxic toys from China.

When you think of West Virginia, scorpions don't exactly come to mind, so you can imagine how surprised Megan Templeton was when she was stung while picking up a Watermelon at her local Wal-Mart. Here is yet another reason to shop for locally grown produce: you can't get stung by exotic creatures when you pick up a head of lettuce grown in the next town over. A Watermelon from Mexico, however, can bring all kinds of nasty critters with it, as we can see here.

[navarth]

1. Lost the tree in front of our house to the Emerald Ash Borer.

Globalization. Great, huh?

[Gato Moteado]

3. that's horrible! and apparently they're saying that all ash trees in....

...north america are at risk.

these things are originally from china.

[navarth]

4. The ash borer is burning it's way through Canada and the U.S. and it's nowhere near stopping.

Trees all over my neighborhood got messed up.

Back in my earlier years, the Dutch Elm Disease pretty much defoliated my beloved Detroit. This kind of stuff has been going on a long time.

Talk to anybody who grew up in Detroit and they'll tell you about the 'green tunnel'...those elm trees were beautiful.

I still say the Dutch Elm disease did just as much to hurt my city as any auto industry shortsightedness.

[Gato Moteado]

5. yeah, the old elm trees in my old neighborhood on the west side....

....of chicago all came down after they got the disease back in the late 60s or early 70s. that was horrible.

[Art_from_Ark]

8. The elm tree in my yard also succumbed to Dutch elm disease

in the late 60s or early 70s, in Arkansas

[Gato Moteado]

2. try growing bananas or citrus in west virginia or "the next town over"......

walmart sucks....no doubt.

but, stop importing produce from mexico and other countries? i don't think so.

furthermore, a watermelon from mexico certainly can bring nasty critters with it but so can a carton of tomatoes from florida. they have scorpions there too.

i have no problem with importing produce from other countries...it's the only way to get fruits that are out of season in the US. i just want to see fair trade practices and regulations imposed on farmers that insure safe healthy produce.

[One Sweet World]

6. Wal-Mart sells a lot of toxic products

Dude -- Wal-Mart gets 70% of its products from shoddy factories in communist China. Do you remember the Aqua Dots that Wal-Mart proclaimed a "must buy" only for mothers to find out that they were coated with a date rape drug? Or the dog food that was poisonous?

Wal-Mart is infamous for selling dangerous and toxic products because its quality check is so low, and this is just the latest case.

[Gato Moteado]

7. i agree with you regarding walmart...read my post

i was responding to your assertion (or the assertion in the article) that people in west virginia can get all that produce from the next county over. it's just not true.

what does the fact that bananas and pineapples and mangoes and citrus and other tropical fruits need to come from other places have to do with walmart?

[madeline_con]

9. With all the feral species being liberated by once

well intentioned "owners" it is very possible you might have to deal with one.