Make Sure To Check Your Packaged Food!

Sweet, free scorpion!

Oh man that is gross!

I really felt the need to share this with people.

We're constantly eating packaged, and processed foods. A lot of the time this isn't all that bad. But a few months ago, I opened a package of raspberries that had been imported to Canada from California, and found a poisonous scorpion in it. I've just recently posted the picture I took online.

I don't think there are any poisonous scorpions

This is why I rarely buy grapes, and if I do, I make someone else wash them HAHA
I also check my bananas in the store.

I am slightly weird

I'm thinking it would be tough to miss a scorpion in my bag of fruit.

Just a thought.

I really felt the need to share this with people.

We're constantly eating packaged, and processed foods. A lot of the time this isn't all that bad. But a few months ago, I opened a package of raspberries that had been imported to Canada from California, and found a poisonous scorpion in it. I've just recently posted the picture I took online.

I don't think there are any poisonous scorpions

I think she meant that it could have stung her. I don't know if it would have killed her or made her ill, but they're not exactly the most friendly or safe creatures.

that doesn't make it poisonous

I really felt the need to share this with people.

We're constantly eating packaged, and processed foods. A lot of the time this isn't all that bad. But a few months ago, I opened a package of raspberries that had been imported to Canada from California, and found a poisonous scorpion in it. I've just recently posted the picture I took online.

I don't think there are any poisonous scorpions

I think she meant that it could have stung her. I don't know if it would have killed her or made her ill, but they're not exactly the most friendly or safe creatures.

that doesn't make it poisonous

No. I'm sure she could have eaten all of it but the tip of the tail. Yummy protein!

I really felt the need to share this with people.

We're constantly eating packaged, and processed foods. A lot of the time this isn't all that bad. But a few months ago, I opened a package of raspberries that had been imported to Canada from California, and found a poisonous scorpion in it. I've just recently posted the picture I took online.

I don't think there are any poisonous scorpions

All scorpions have venom. The particular one she posted is actually one of the more venomous scorpions.
Quick and dirty trick: Smaller the claws, more venomous the scorpion.

PS - it totally has its head. That is a fully intact scorpion.

Stung by that scorpion would of been like a bee sting.

But finding bugs or what not in your veggies or fruits should be something you must be aware of. These things live in the environments which we get our food/ their homes. When I find one I remove it alive or dead, wash the fruit and veggie and move on. No real big deal. Its Life.

Scorasberries!

I really felt the need to share this with people.

We're constantly eating packaged, and processed foods. A lot of the time this isn't all that bad. But a few months ago, I opened a package of raspberries that had been imported to Canada from California, and found a poisonous scorpion in it. I've just recently posted the picture I took online.

I don't think there are any poisonous scorpions

All scorpions have venom. The particular one she posted is actually one of the more venomous scorpions.
Quick and dirty trick: Smaller the claws, more venomous the scorpion.

I went to one of those reptile/spider guy zoos and he told us that in most scorpions the babies are the most venemous. By the time they grow up it just hurts when they sting you.

And as far as the original post:

Meh. People in other countries think they are delicacies and some people even eat them regularly. *kitten* happens.

I went to one of those reptile/spider guy zoos and he told us that in most scorpions the babies are the most venemous. By the time they grow up it just hurts when they sting you.

Sort of.
It's similar to venomous snakes. Juveniles of the species are more likely to inject full venom, rather than to conserve their venom and use their fans/stingers/whatever as a weapon.

I'm curious as to how big that container of raspberries was that you bought that you didn't notice a scorpion?

Stung by that scorpion would of been like a bee sting.

But finding bugs or what not in your veggies or fruits should be something you must be aware of. These things live in the environments which we get our food/ their homes. When I find one I remove it alive or dead, wash the fruit and veggie and move on. No real big deal. Its Life.

Totally! We live our lives so separated from the source of our food we forget that it was alive - fruit, vegetable, grain or meat. And when we find reminders in the form of bugs or a bit of dirt (potatoes) we sometimes freak out. Bugs and dirt are not typically found in our sanitized grocery stores where everything is packaged. As to the other post about a toothpick in the meat. Welll, at least it wasn't a cockroach!

And while we're at it, writing here in Calgary, just a little reminder that it's what we don't see that can truly harm us. Take for instance the gigantic meat recall due to E.Coli contamination from a meat packing plant just east of us here in Calgary. Largest slaughterhouse/meat packing facility in Canada and it's been caught selling contaminated meat. Currently shut down, and huge arguments in Parliament about government inspections (or not) and not a peep out of the company itself. I wouldn't be surprised one bit to learn that the contamination is from poor practises in the facility. Ironic that food production should be such dirty, dangerous work isn't it?