Ich bin ein
Posted on 06/05/2011 10:26:31 AM PDT by nuconvert
HAMBURG, Germany – Lower Saxony's agriculture minister says initial tests have confirmed that locally grown beansprouts are the likely cause for Germany's E. coli outbreak that has killed 22 people and sickened hundreds.
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What did the Belgians have to do with it?
The Germans are very primitive when it comes to waste control.
They still spread human waste from their towns and cities on the agriculture crops.
And they wonder why people are getting sick?
Just like a third world country.....
Not sure if they’re still fertilizing their fields with HUMAN EXCREMENT but when we were over there last time, portions of the Autobahn in Spring smelled like an Afghan comfort station. And since Obozo has been keeping us covered with bravo sierra since 2009, we know the difference between human and bovine excrement.
Not sure if they’re still fertilizing their fields with HUMAN EXCREMENT but when we were over there last time, portions of the Autobahn in Spring smelled like an Afghan comfort station. And since Obozo has been keeping us covered with bravo sierra since 2009, we know the difference between human and bovine excrement.
I read a report last week, I think in the Wall St Journal, where some scientists proposed that two types of benign e. coli bacillus recombined their DNA into this resultant killer strain. That’s the real story behind this story.
” that different kind of sprouts from a horticultural farm in the greater Uelzen area between Hamburg and Hannover could be traced to infected people in five different German states.”
Wonder if that farm has any workers name Achmed, or Muhammad?
The Germans definitely use human waste as fertilizer, but I am not sure of the health risks if it is done “correctly”. We use cow and horse dung.
Say what you will about the Germans, from my interactions with them, I believe the accounts of hospital personnel returning from vacations to treat the victims.
Yes, the mutation is scary
You can sprout seeds in just water. Rinsing is vitally important. Hygiene is important, even if you are growing them for yourself at home. However, you don’t even need to touch the sprouts, just have a screen over the mouth of the growing container and flush with water.
So: what was the initial source of the bacteria? It would seem to have been either in the initial handling of the seeds, the container itself, the water itself or in the final harvest and packaging. I can’t see where else anyone would even have reason to touch the sprouts and introduce contamination. Perhaps there was an initial presence of E. coli and then inadequate rinsing?
They initially blamed the Spaniards, and screwed up that country’s ag exports, and now it turns out it was their own farmers.....
“The Germans are very primitive when it comes to waste control.
They still spread human waste from their towns and cities on the agriculture crops.
And they wonder why people are getting sick?
Just like a third world country.....”
It’s called ‘sludge’ and they use it on crops in Mexico which are imported here. We also use sludge in the U.S. I believe but I would have to check that out.
“It’s called ‘sludge’ and they use it on crops in Mexico which are imported here. We also use sludge in the U.S. I believe but I would have to check that out.”
Yep, it’s called “Milorganite”. Right on the bag it says they don’t recommend it for food crops.
I use it as a barrier spread around my garden perimeters to ward off deer damage. It works.
Didn’t the US go through some sort of sprout scare in the 1980s?
Just another example of why I refuse to buy imported food products.
Just another example of why I am a carnivore.
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” locally grown beansprouts “
Tended to and packed by “Guest Workers”? I’ve heard several people surmise that this has the earmarks of a weaponized biologacail attack.
Apparently sprouts are not like lettuce, cucumbers, tomatoes, green beans etc. due to the fact that you can never really wash the things since whatever bacteria is there is more internal than external. If you’re a pathogen, sprouts are an ideal transport agent.
FL
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