E.Coli

[Tommy Walker]

http://www.conspiracyplanet.com/channel.cfm?channelid=8&contentid=8505&page=2

 

not taking 'sides' on this (yet)...

 

can others who have some knowledge on such matters comment on this please

 

"?European health authorities are leaping at the opportunity to spread fear about organic foods while ignoring the obvious true cause of the contamination in the first place ? the widespread abuse of antibiotics in animal farming operations? The e.coli blame game has become a circus of musical chairs. First, they blamed the Spaniards as a form of retaliation for Spain?s resistance to accepting GMOs. This act drove Spanish farmers into bankruptcy through a savage campaign of rumor-mongering. After ravaging the Spanish vegetable farmers, they began to randomly instill widespread fear about a variety of vegetables: First it was cucumbers, then lettuce and then finally tomatoes. And now, the blame has come full circle and is now being cast upon organic sprout growers in Germany!?

 

He pointed out, quite correctly, that without sustained and careful laboratory manipulation there would be no way for this organism to acquire total resistance to these drugs since the drugs are not used in agriculture and the bacteria would not encounter all eight of them in nature.

 

The only reasonable conclusion is that colonies of normal E. coli had been intentionally, systematically exposed to each of the antibiotics in turn and the surviving colonies had been propagated and then exposed to the next antibiotic. The surviving germs were now resistant to both of the antibiotics to which they had been exposed. The process was repeated until a super bug was created which would not yield to any of the antibiotics that doctors would customarily use to treat the infection."

 

Best

 

TW

[P-Dizzle]

He's talking shit, there are numerous ways drug resistant bacteria could find their way into our environment. This is just evolution on a smaller scale, this particular E. coli bacteria is especially adept at transferring itself onto the surface of vegetables. It is more resistant to common treatments used against it in the same way that we are more resilient against things like a cold.

 

I actually had E. coli 0157, and the doctor told me there was nothing they could do to treat it, I just had to ride it out.

[Jambof3tornado]

My wife had E.coli 0157 many years ago and the doctor gave her immodium! Big mistake!

 

Was amusing when environmental health came to the house to try and trace it,we got quizzed on where we bought our pate and what way up we stored our eggs!