Posted on 06/05/2011 9:21:47 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
German Organic Farm 'Behind E.coli Outbreak'
4:13am UK, Monday June 06, 2011
The E.coli outbreak could have been caused by vegetable sprouts grown on an organic farm in Germany, an official has said.
German beansprouts are said to be behind the E.coli outbreak
Preliminary tests found that bean sprouts and other sprout varieties from the farm in the Uelzen area, between the northern cities of Hamburg and Hannover, could be traced to infections in five German states, Lower Saxony Agriculture Minister Gert Lindemann said.
"There were more and more indications in the last few hours that put the focus on this farm," he said.
Definitive test results should be available later today.
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Daniel Bahr said Germany was facing a "tense situation with patient care" adding that some hospitals had been moving patients with less serious illnesses in order to handle the surge of people with the deadly strain of the bacteria.
One woman has talked about her experience when she was admitted to hospital with suspected E.coli.
Nicoletta Pabst, a 41-year-old from Hamburg, said: "When I arrived, there were at least 20 other people and more kept coming in.
"All of us had diarrhoea and there was only one male and one female toilet."
At a news conference in Hamburg, state health minister Cornelia Pruefer-Storcks said local officials were looking at ways to prevent a looming shortage of doctors.
"We want to discuss with doctors about whether those who recently retired can be reactivated," she said, adding that medical staff in Hamburg are battling exhaustion.
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Organic farm, as in manure fertilizer.
I will wait.
Humanure fertilizer.
Save Gaia, eat organic, sing Kumbaya!
Organic = Grown in poop
“All of us had diarrhea and there was only one male and one female toilet.”
Must be a small hospital.
Horse, cattle, sheep, goat and chicken manure can be used as fertilizer AFTER being composted for a year. Composting so as to raise the temperature high enough to kill E.coli is important when it is used to grow edibles.
There have been a number of articles concerning this in Hobby Farms magazine.
Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!
N-P-K is available in safe forms but some choose another way....ping.
Night Soil fertilizer.
Sprouts are grown in water, not manure. Had to be contaminated water or a contaminated worker, perhaps a “guest worker.”
Also it must have been a very large farm or sprout factory.
Hippie chow!
I’m no scientist, though I do play one on the intarwebs sometimes. E. coli comes from human poop, I think that much is a given.
I’m cool with organic farming, but you gotta compost that stuff you are putting on your crops. Properly done, the compost gets hot enough to kill bad germs from what I have heard. But using human offal in your compost will lead to no good. Old leaves, vegetables, various table scraps are OK, but human poops is a no-no.
These “organic farmers” need to study Organic Composting 101 so they don’t have their own poops poisoning their people. And don’t have diseased peeps pooping on your crops. Unless, of course, you are shipping it to the “organic” garden at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave.
BWHAHAHA, that tagline is HILARIOUS!!
/johnny
Sprouts are grown from beans. Beans plants are grown in the soil.
Most bean plants are fertilized some way.
I thought e. coli came from any kind of poop? Cow poop too?
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