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Since produce is shipped around the world these days, beware of imported vegetable from Europe (particularly cucumbers, lettuce, and tomatoes from Spain), seems there is a spreading E. coli problem because of dubious planting procedures
In Germany a couple of people have already died, lots of people are infected in several countries. the new strain is highly contagious. Scientists identify source of lethal bug in Germany - Monsters and Critics
Seems like they can't determine the source of the outbreak. Spanish vegetable was contaminated, but not with that deadly strain that is spreading to more and more countries. The city of Hamburg seems to be the "epicenter".
Chinese and German researchers have found out that the new strain responsible for the outbreak is not just a mutant, it seems to be a brand new hybrid of two separate strains.
For safety sake know where your food is coming from and if you are in Europe do not handle/eat raw produce. Cook it! The toxin released by this strain of E-Coli is causing kidney failure in otherwise healthy people.
What would non-organic food be? metal? stones? lol.
"organic" means it's mainly based on coal-chain based chemicals.
For example gasoline, cocaine and PVC-plastics are technicly organic.
The food industry use this label very allusively for food that they want to imply have been produced in a trustworthy or "natural" manner.
Anyway the problem with the new e.coli seems to be relatively contained to germany and people who have been in germany, and does not seem to be spreading from people to people. Which is great.
Hopefully the actual source and it's ways of spreading will be found and stopped soon, as the strands are resistant to antibiotics.
Like somebody said, cooking everything is a good precaution to protect oneself, as it will kill the bacteria.
This incident is somewhat old-new to us, because now it has to be fought he same ways as before antibiotics were first invented. And the more worrying part is that more and more types of bacteria evolve to be antibiotics resistant, meaning this will be more and more common. Right no there are basicly a certain number of different basic antibiotics types all growing less effective by each generation of bacteria. Something new has to be invented or humanity will be at the medical state of a third world country within the next 5-20 years.
If you watch a movie like "doomsday" or any other virus-movie you think it's just sci-fi or whatever, but it's really not. This is a real threat that is emerging on all of us faster than we might be able to handle it. cancer and HIV are gonna be considered non-issues once a bacteria that is good at spreading human to human with resistance against both immune-system and antibiotics get's into our globalized system of living...
They got a new lead, soy sprouts produced in a the Northern German state of Lower Saxony. That company is among the suppliers of a restaurant in the city of Lübeck that many of the people who got ill had visited. Sprouts also were the culprit in an E.coli outbreak in Japan in 1996.
But there are other theories as well, for instance a biogas production facility and even a terrorist attack
It's not the vegetables that is the problem. It's the manure they use to grow everything. Quit using that and maybe they will have less of these outbreaks. And quit blaming the innocent veggies. Worry more about that hamburger on your plate.
It's not the vegetables that is the problem. It's the manure they use to grow everything. Quit using that and maybe they will have less of these outbreaks. And quit blaming the innocent veggies. Worry more about that hamburger on your plate.
I'm vegetarian, so naturally I care about veggies I have never eaten a hamburger in my whole life
I am no farmer, so I wonder what exactly they are doing these days in terms of manure. I mean, farmers have used animal excrements as fertilizer since the beginning of agriculture...
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I have never eaten a hamburger in my whole life 
