Greene had many decisions to make based on the E. coli dilemma. The first decision I believe that he should have made was to stop harvesting his spinach crop and have tests run on it to see if it had somehow become contaminated. One of the key factors in this decision is that his crop was grown in Salinas Valley, California, which is the largest producing area of fresh spinach located in the U.S. I believe that the decision to stop harvesting may have been an expensive decision to make, but ultimately this decision would have demonstrated that Greene was doing his best to help determine where the contamination began. It also would have shown that his crop was in fact contaminated. Once the outbreak had been tracked