Because of
lobbying EHEC - Are they really on
the right track? Maria Weiß June 7, 2011 It is a striking fact, that all of the products
for which there was an official warning because
of EHEC are related to the use of fertiliser.
Have there been investigations about extensively used fertilisers in
the mean time? Up to now nothing is known about that. Today it was in the news that the fatal intestinal
pathogen EHEC is suspected to get into the food chain by biogas plants,
and it is for this reason: In these plants waste materials, faeces,
and all kinds of biomass are
mixed up and converted into gas. And in
this process of mixing various
components absolutely new combinations emerge. That
sounds plausible. The
crucial question then
would be: how this stuff
comes in the food chain?
And this question must
be answered. If for example
I hear Mrs. Aigner warning that
please nobody should eat
tomatoes, nor cucumbers,
and, above all, no lettuce although
there is no prove at all that this “mysterious” disease agent has
anything to do with the consumption of cucumbers,
tomatoes and lettuce,
it is anyway conspicuous that she insists so
much just in these three important sorts of food as an alleged danger.
It is known that especially lettuce is fertilised.
And who says that
in these biogas plants,
where certainly a lot
of waste can be found because
the material certainly
cannot be
transformed into gas
one-to-one, this leftover
stuff is not
re-sold to farmers
as fertiliser. That
would be really
a serious criminal act if that should
have been done. Why there were still no investigations
of all of the operators of biogas plants who are also selling fertilisers,
why no thorough check up for the existence
of this agent being said to have already
cost more than 20
lives? Instead, the existence
of umpteen of agricultural
enterprises is questioned
by one-sided and
totally unsecured public speculation in an unscrupulous manner
which, apart from the
vulgarity of the Merkel
government passing the buck to Spain, (perhaps because of its inner turmoil by which it currently became "unpopular"?),
an act that
had to be withdrawn officially
by now and that will cost the taxpayers many millions of Euros for completely legitimate claims for compensation. Here the anger is really appropriate, and not only that. According to reports from the Internet the operators of biogas plants
(meanwhile having increased to the number of more than 6500 in the country)
have said that they would
abide by the food
purity law. So what? Is that the sole reason not to carry out
any checks? Because
of lobbying! In
one case, a single notice
is solely sufficient to discredit an entire
restaurant (Lübeck),
but in this case the government once again
is grovelling before a
particular lobby, from
what ever reason. It is remarkable
that the Russian government
fairly soon after
the appearing of the EHEC pathogen has
stopped all shipments
of fresh vegetable from
Europe although the Spanish
cucumber theory had
just vanished into thin air,
as the only country in the world. Should
they have knowledge there about
these practices and the
resulting risks? This would not
be surprising. (Translation of the German original) www.neue-einheit.com www.neue-einheit.de |