What is it?

[ruthandsam]

I'm being a little thick here but what is it that farmers spray onto their fields that smells so dreadful? I can cope with the smell of manure, in fact I quite like it but this other smell makes you want to throw up

Just came to mind as we were cycling next to a field where a tractor was spraying the stuff and a big gust of wind blew our way and we got covered, etc. Made us laugh a lot but still can't get rid of the smell or taste!! lol

[wildwood]

I might become an exclusive meat eater now.

[vivandorron]

Mosaic...Everything your GP told you was correct but did he/she further tell you that animals are also are carriers of Cryptospiridium.:-

http://www.hpa.org.uk...nsAZ/Cryptosporidium/

Ron.

[rowanwitch]

Ducks and pigs and chickens must hurry
do lots of cr@p to be put down as slurry
Pee and poo and all sorts in the slurry
with the steam on top

Watch them spray it all steamin and stinking
There no better plant food they're thinking
Into the earth it soon will be sinking
but I wish they'd stop
speading yucky mucky slurry with the steam on the top!

[RATTER15]

It is probably processed human waste, they spread thousands of tons of the stuff not far from me, that is a little pongy, well you can imagine!!

[FredPuli43]

Tasteless vegetables, by the way, are not the result of what's spread with a muck-spreader or of other fertilizers and chemicals. They are the result of developing strains for the mass market. Left to itself, a pea plant isn't 'stupid' enough to produce peas at exactly the same time as every other pea plant. But the producers want exactly that, so that the crop can be gathered at one go, often in one night, predictable to a very short time-frame. Similar considerations relate to other crops, including such factors as consistent size, colour, big yield etc. The flavour may be one thing which gets lost in all this, and often is.

What you may grow in your garden is not affected by these commercial considerations and is often an old variety. That has survived because it was developed precisely for flavour.You are not concerned much about yield, size, shape or picking the whole crop in a few hours!

Tasteless apples are a particularly bad example of commerce. Happily, peas aren't much affected in flavour; frozen peas compare well with 'garden' varieties in that; but, in general, the commercial products are not as good as garden ones.

[tenrec]

LOL at Rowan!