Organically Farmed Product Killing People and Aborting Babies
We have seen FDA recalls on pistachios and jalapenos and tomatoes for salmonella infection due to organic farming methods that expose the food to sewage, farm runoff or other sources of fecal contaminants. Previous salmonella infections have crippled the food industry, many farmers who used safer farming methods, and sickened and killed many.
This time alfalfa sprouts have been found to be infected on a farm in New York state and distributed to northeastern states of NY, NJ, CT, RI, MA, NH, VT, ME, MD, PA & Delaware. And instead of salmonella, the bacteria is Listeria, which causes menengitis outbreaks and will cause women to spontaneously miscarry their pregnancies.
From the FDA here with thanks to Leon:
Amalgamated Produce, Inc. (API), Bridgeport, CT, announced a voluntary recall today of its Specialty Farms, Vermont Sprout House, Nature’s Promise and BroccoSprouts (noted as distributed by API, Bridgeport, CT) sprout items with sell by date codes of March 31 through April 27, 2009.
These sprouts are being recalled because they may have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes (Lm). Lm is an organism which can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people and others with weakened immune systems. Although healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms such as high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea, Listeria infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women.
As I have pointed out before, our forefathers spent years and a vast fortune to perfect scientific methods to provide us safe and healthy food. Now a bunch of hippies who deny the existence of science when it comes to food, but embrace it when it comes to ecological myths such as Global Warming, are creating a false market for food that is neither healthy nor safe.
