German Food Crisis: Dioxins Found in Poultry, Eggs and Pork, Sales Halted

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  1. skip

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    Tests have revealed high levels of dioxins in eggs, poultry and pork products in Germany leading the government to ban all sales of the products in the affected areas. Slovakia and South Korea have banned sales of some German products already while other European nations investigate.

    Apparently a company that makes "fat" pellets used dioxin tainted produce, knowingly for nearly a year. These pellets were fed to chickens and pigs resulting in dioxin showing up in products from those animals.

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/07/germany-dioxin-scare-poul_n_805902.html
     
  2. And you can hardly re-call already consumed tainted products. Doesn't bare thinking about. And no one loses here except the consumer. Other European countries will ban the import of German meat and poultry products which will push the price up even though some of these countries are totally self sufficient in these products!
     
  3. skip

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    Buying local is the way to go, esp. if you trust your local sources. Factory farming is to blame, so buy from small local farmers who practice sustainable agriculture.
     
  4. I try to! I know where my fruit and veg comes from and the eggs are obviously free range, it's the meat that is a problem. Thankfully I'm not much of a meat eater and then it's only chicken. I'm hoping that it comes from the same source as the eggs! Spain's not big on free range or organic products.Things are slowly changing though.
     
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    Actually when I was in Spain I found much of their local small scale agriculture to be organic as it has always been. Wines were made and processed organically.

    Of course as Spain becomes more prosperous, the farmers can afford more chemicals to use on their crops.

    Oh, also I found a lot of cannabis was being grown organically too, but that was by old school growers, not newbies...
     
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    I've seen this before, growing up in Michigan, I remember in, I believe, the late 70's a flame retardant got mixed in with feed for cows and contaminated our beef and milk supplies. That little mix up had long lasting ramifications. I'll see if I can pull up a story about it.
     
  7. Yeah, still the same for the greenery and fruit but a lot are no longer in business because as you said younger peeps can't be arsed with the work required to grow organically. I did it in Scotland and it's fucking hard work weeding by hand, fighting slugs and other beasties without chemicals. The modern consumer also prefers their veg to be clean and uniformly shaped. I prefer buying my stuff all weird and still covered in earth. At least you know that it's freshly dug up!
     
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    The Germans will be hurting for a while if the case in Michigan is any example, that mix up only involved 500 to 1000 lbs of PBB but ended up affecting most of the population in Michigan at the time. I've included a paragraph and a link to the story.

    http://everything2.com/title/The+Michigan+PBB+disaster
     
  10. fire_in_the_soul

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    There are not-mainstream sources on europe just like north america, and more locally produced food, than the states taken in-total per head.
    Less people on the states are actively concious about food sovereignty, although with the recent mortgage scam, it seems more are waking up when they have even been scammed out of a warm bed.

    The FED bankers through their bolshevik buddies were behind the ukraine famine, for geographic reasons, the death of millions of ordinary farmers and others was noticed more on europe and remembered a bit better.

    While there are many young people on europe who are into the same false 'world fashion' (dressing like rock-star whores) and corresponding low-level conciousness as their north american counterparts, influenced by a false culture of death peddled by the bankers. The rock-star-idiots may not remember the ukraine famine as well, and the who/what started it and enforced it. This is a problem as the group has run the central banks of europe for a long time and now the ECB, their 'bernake front-man' today is dominique strauss-kahn.

    I look at the BP GOM issue and this recent fat-pellet issue as all from the same mentality - no heart, only brain. No (real) money, only fame (the fiat currency that lasts five seconds until hyperinflation takes it's toll). Whether it's physically done directly through some channel back to the banking houses, or indirectly through neglect inspired by the system setup by the banking criminals, doesn't matter to me. Two sides of the same rotten tin coin.


    The normal, even semi-concious folks, resist GM on europe and contamination, treating food as more holy than church. Unfortunately most of the men drink beer with hops, and as another poster pointed out it makes the men feminazi assholes, whether pot-bellied or otherwise, due to the huge amounts of estrogen in hops. So where the men should be leading the charge to change the situation, they drink beer and do nothing. Guess who owns the beer companies too?

    Many people on europe who are unconcious, like the system above has de-volved many central-european people today, they buy the 'floor eggs', the cheapest eggs. These are terrible tasting to one who knows real food.

    For those of us who know, there is good food. For those of us who are unconscious, and probably not on this board, there's floor eggs and fat-pellets laced with dioxin. Trimming the herd.
     
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    Where have I heard that before?

    It sure seems like there's a conspiracy to kill off the weaker, less conscious among us. Feed them fatty foods laced with chemicals so they die early and the rich won't have to fund their social security and medicare.

    It's about "Quality of Life" something the rich know a lot about, and the poor virtually nothing.

    Once upon a time the "Quality of Life" in the US meant a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. That was the "American Dream" once upon a time. No more... It morphed into having McMansions, several SUVs, vacations around the world, etc...

    So now it's time for a reality check. Everyone on the planet cannot live the "American Dream". And as they try to, we are finding ourselves with less purchasing power, less political clout, less security.

    Security does not mean being safe from Al-Qaeda attacks. It does not mean securing the borders of foreign countries. It means securing a quality of life standard for every American. A safety net that extends to food, shelter and health care. That is the minimum that most advanced countries in the world offer their citizens automatically.

    That kind of security makes EVERYONE secure because then people have less to worry about, less to complain about, and less to rebel against.

    We've trade real security for a false sense of security with Big Brother looking over our shoulders and feeling up our genitals. Like that improves our "Quality of Life". It only improves the bottom line for a few companies...
     
  12. fire_in_the_soul

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    yes we need to form our own private networks.
     
  13. Yeah, the gap between the haves and the have-nots is getting bigger. I just can't get my head round the selfishness, and the unwillingness to understand that seems to prevail in the minds of those who have never been anything other than "comfortable". Social conscience is a term not in their vocabulary!
     
  14. SunnyHappyVegan

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    ...go vegan? ;)
     
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