If it turns out to be true, then it would be ironic that so many Germans wanted to be green with non-nuclear derived energy like biogas and its by products. Their environmental choices may turn out to be more lethal and have more adverse economic impact than all the accidents at all the nuclear plants in history.
To: red flanker
Also ironic how quickly Germany blamed Spain. They were so sure it had to come from elsewhere.
2 posted on
06/05/2011 3:19:50 PM PDT by
wiggen
(The teacher card. When the racism card just won't work.)
To: red flanker
From the blog, it appears to be pure speculation.
3 posted on
06/05/2011 3:26:36 PM PDT by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
To: red flanker
Shouldn’t be hard to test for the specific bacteria in the plants.
4 posted on
06/05/2011 3:26:58 PM PDT by
Farmer Dean
(stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
To: red flanker
I read earlier that Germany uses human waste to fertilise its fields, with many affirmations to this point.
To: red flanker
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2728989/posts
DNA Sequence Yields Clues to Germany’s ‘Super Toxic’ E. coli outbreak
ScienceInsider ^ | 2 June 2011 | Martin Enserink
Posted on Thursday, June 02, 2011 5:18:36 PM by neverdem
[snip]
” it has sequenced the microbe’s entire 5.2-million-base-pair genome—says that its acquisition of several virulence genes make this EHEC strain “supertoxic.” “
[snip]
Any biochemists out there??
How likely is this strain to have occurred ‘naturally’ or ‘accidentally’ *and* to have been ‘accidentally’ released into the food chain????
8 posted on
06/05/2011 3:37:32 PM PDT by
Uncle Ike
(Rope is cheap, and there are lots of trees...)
To: red flanker
If it turns out to be true, then it would be ironic that so many Germans wanted to be green with non-nuclear derived energy like biogas and its by products. Their environmental choices may turn out to be more lethal and have more adverse economic impact than all the accidents at all the nuclear plants in history.
You completely stole my thunder by saying exactly what I was going to say. I cannot for the life of me figure out the Germans. On the one hand, they can be brilliant in science and engineering. They build some of the best products in the world without question. But then they can be so stupid, witness the banning of Nuclear Power on account of the accident in Japan. Now as best as I can tell Germany is geologically stable and there's no chance they are gonna get hit by a Tsunami. So why discontinue the most environmentally friendly technology.
The Green movement in Germany is really scary.
So if true, then this IS THE ULTIMATE IRONY. I won't say the Germans deserved it, but their foolishness may have brought it about.
9 posted on
06/05/2011 3:41:09 PM PDT by
truthguy
(Good intentions are not enough.)
To: red flanker
The latest report I heard on Foxnews said possibly beansprouts they are supposedly testing now to see if they are the source.
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