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E. Coli Outbreak From Sprouts, German Investigators Say - ABC News
I don't trust this finding. Sprouts are not grown in soil, but in water, which means the water source had to be contaminated. - maybe from a ground source, like a well. If so, that still points to livestock contaminating the ground water via run off.
E. coli doesn't just mutate into more lethal forms, it has to be stimulated by human practices and that means anti-biotics and crowded farms.
The direct link has to go back to industrial farming conditions and I feel this investigation has not really explored or explained the origins.
Investigators have identified German vegetable sprouts as the source of the deadly European E. coli outbreak that has killed 31 people and sickened nearly 3,100, according to an announcement today.
The outbreak might be one of the deadliest in modern history involving the foodborne pathogen. Reinhard Burger, president of the Robert Koch Institute, Germany's national disease control center, told reporters today that the pattern of the outbreak had produced enough evidence to implicate the sprouts even though no tests on sprouts from an organic farm in Lower Saxony had come back positive for the E. coli strain behind the outbreak.
I don't trust this finding. Sprouts are not grown in soil, but in water, which means the water source had to be contaminated. - maybe from a ground source, like a well. If so, that still points to livestock contaminating the ground water via run off.
E. coli doesn't just mutate into more lethal forms, it has to be stimulated by human practices and that means anti-biotics and crowded farms.
The direct link has to go back to industrial farming conditions and I feel this investigation has not really explored or explained the origins.