Strawberry Crisis?

For those of you who are living under a rock (or don't live in Australia I guess), Australia has suffered a crisis involving so called "pranksters" putting sharp objects such as needles into Strawberries. This began early last month in Brisbane and quickly created a panic as copy-cats preformed the act of sabotage in other places around the country. Unfortunately, due to the sensationalising that the media preforms whenever anything of interest (or not) comes up many people have began to avoid Strawberries, with many even being dumped due to "potential contamination". It appears even the PM Scott Morrison's intervention on behalf of the farmers isn't enough to stop everyone from causing a fuss. Although I'm certain that this brouhaha will be over soon enough and the industry will rebound, I can't help but feel that the waste that this has produced was completely unnecessary and could have been avoided if the media didn't play things up and the people were less susceptible to this crap (which they try to think independently). Still, maybe good will come out of all this. Just like how security on medicine packaging increased after the Tylenol incident in 1982, maybe packaging security on fruit punnets will increase (not as important but still something). Anyways the most important thing to take away from this whole incident is not to fall for ridiculous, sensationalised stories intended only to strike fear in you and line their pockets with money.

Delicious, sweet and completely safe strawberries