Organic vegetables aren’t all they’re cracked up to be.
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Killer sprouts in Europe — 9 Comments
Now they are saying that it wasn’t the sprouts from the suspected grower. The problem now is that the contaminated food has probably been used up since mid May or tossed, and the grower, transporter, wholesaler has probably cleaned the premises pretty often. We may never know the source for sure. But the fact that organic products were in the running will probably shake up some greenies. At any rate the growers will get handsome compensation (15 billion?) from the government.
I had dinner with a Chinese friend Sunday. He reminded us that the Chinese always cook their sprouts.
Honestly, what could be more organic than to serve sprouts that have been watered with raw sewage? Furthermore, the results are 100% organic as well -bodies rotting in their graves! This is merely an out-working of Darwinian Evolution theories where only the strongest survive. Europe should pat themselves on the back at their willingness to embrace evolution. Socialism at it’s finest, where the hypocrisy can be lain aside at last.
It seems that irradiation has been cast aside as unnatural or even dangerous. However, this article (HT Instapundit) points out that it could be a huge factor in providing safe food. However, like GM (genetically modified) food it is not acceptable to people who want “organic.” Meh.
The organic farming movement is a micro-parable of our times. It started in the 1930s-50s as a way for small farms, big family gardens really, to reduce the costs of production. Bagged fertilizers were replaced by compost, including composted manure.
“Organic”, once an acceptable idea, like early feminism, has since become its own religion (one of many), signifying that no “artificial” nutrients are employed. Priests (certifying agents and agencies) bless the acres and the practices, at a cost.
And the folks with $ buy this stuff at a major premium over what Fresh Market labels “conventional”. The folks with $ believe (as in religion) this stuff is better and better for them, but they never ask for data. Good thing, because such data do not exist. PT Barnum strikes again.
I grew up on an Iowa farm from the 1950 to the mid-1960s. I can tell you that conventional farming back then had nothing to do with herbicides or pesticides. We didn’t knife NH3 into the soil. We were diversified: corn, soybeans, oats, alfalfa, pasture, chickens, pigs, and a few cattle. We rotated our fields. We conserved the topsoil and we didn’t pollute the watershed with chemicals or manure We grew enough to feed ourselves, the nation, and the world. We were ‘organic’.
Dum, dum, dum, dum; dum, dum, dum, Ah-tack of the killer tomatoooooes, ah-tack of the killer tomatoooooes…
Sorry.
The organic sprouts are back in the running as a source of the infections because 3 employees of the grower had diarhea last month. Strange that wasn’t mentioned to investigators when the sprouts were initially identified as a potential cause.
Supposedly EHEC was also found on a partially eaten cuke slice in the compostables container in Sachsen (container belongs to infected person). This is quite a distance from the northern German sites previously involved.
The only way to make fresh vegetables free of bacterial contamination is irradiation. This sterilization method is especially recomended for everything grown on compost “organic”, since compost by definition is always packed with bacteria of every possible kind, some of which can mutate or swap genes to became really nasty. But there are too few buyers for “organic” irradiated vegetables. And lots of green zealots to ban the irradiation, never mind what scientists think.
I believe that the source was not any kind of food, but some pond or drinking fountain. Foods are usually delivered to many different locations, and all cases happened in Humburg or were associated with persons who visited Humburg. But no inspection of water bodies or tap water was made.
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Now they are saying that it wasn’t the sprouts from the suspected grower. The problem now is that the contaminated food has probably been used up since mid May or tossed, and the grower, transporter, wholesaler has probably cleaned the premises pretty often. We may never know the source for sure. But the fact that organic products were in the running will probably shake up some greenies. At any rate the growers will get handsome compensation (15 billion?) from the government.
I had dinner with a Chinese friend Sunday. He reminded us that the Chinese always cook their sprouts.
Honestly, what could be more organic than to serve sprouts that have been watered with raw sewage? Furthermore, the results are 100% organic as well -bodies rotting in their graves! This is merely an out-working of Darwinian Evolution theories where only the strongest survive. Europe should pat themselves on the back at their willingness to embrace evolution. Socialism at it’s finest, where the hypocrisy can be lain aside at last.
It seems that irradiation has been cast aside as unnatural or even dangerous. However, this article (HT Instapundit) points out that it could be a huge factor in providing safe food. However, like GM (genetically modified) food it is not acceptable to people who want “organic.” Meh.
Read about it here:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=137010412
The organic farming movement is a micro-parable of our times. It started in the 1930s-50s as a way for small farms, big family gardens really, to reduce the costs of production. Bagged fertilizers were replaced by compost, including composted manure.
“Organic”, once an acceptable idea, like early feminism, has since become its own religion (one of many), signifying that no “artificial” nutrients are employed. Priests (certifying agents and agencies) bless the acres and the practices, at a cost.
And the folks with $ buy this stuff at a major premium over what Fresh Market labels “conventional”. The folks with $ believe (as in religion) this stuff is better and better for them, but they never ask for data. Good thing, because such data do not exist. PT Barnum strikes again.
I grew up on an Iowa farm from the 1950 to the mid-1960s. I can tell you that conventional farming back then had nothing to do with herbicides or pesticides. We didn’t knife NH3 into the soil. We were diversified: corn, soybeans, oats, alfalfa, pasture, chickens, pigs, and a few cattle. We rotated our fields. We conserved the topsoil and we didn’t pollute the watershed with chemicals or manure We grew enough to feed ourselves, the nation, and the world. We were ‘organic’.
Dum, dum, dum, dum; dum, dum, dum, Ah-tack of the killer tomatoooooes, ah-tack of the killer tomatoooooes…
Sorry.
The organic sprouts are back in the running as a source of the infections because 3 employees of the grower had diarhea last month. Strange that wasn’t mentioned to investigators when the sprouts were initially identified as a potential cause.
Supposedly EHEC was also found on a partially eaten cuke slice in the compostables container in Sachsen (container belongs to infected person). This is quite a distance from the northern German sites previously involved.
The only way to make fresh vegetables free of bacterial contamination is irradiation. This sterilization method is especially recomended for everything grown on compost “organic”, since compost by definition is always packed with bacteria of every possible kind, some of which can mutate or swap genes to became really nasty. But there are too few buyers for “organic” irradiated vegetables. And lots of green zealots to ban the irradiation, never mind what scientists think.
I believe that the source was not any kind of food, but some pond or drinking fountain. Foods are usually delivered to many different locations, and all cases happened in Humburg or were associated with persons who visited Humburg. But no inspection of water bodies or tap water was made.