E coli: It’s the system that kills, not the salad...

The latest E coli outbreak has already claimed the lives of 22 people and infected more than 2,000 people across the world.

Bean sprouts from a German organic farm were blamed for spreading the previously unknown strain—though previously we were assured that Spanish cucumbers were the source.

But whatever is directly responsible, the spread of disease is the inevitable, and predictable, consequence of heavily industrialised food production run for profit.

As early as 1995 a study found 13 percent of pre-bagged salads contained E coli. Three years ago, the US Centre of Disease Control found that 300,000 people are hospitalised and 5,000 die from food-borne diseases every year in the US. More...

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