Organic Farm More Deadly Than Nuclear & Oil Spill Disasters

Tags: Germany, organic farming

• kushibo
  10:58 am on June 13th, 2011 1

  GI Korea, that’s a highly selective conclusion you’re making there. It matters little if it was an organic farm or an non-organic one. Factory farming and the subsequent runoff, along with other environmental degradation and a lack of appropriate regulation to curb it or stop it leads to thousands of deaths every year.

  This new outbreak is not special in that people got sick and died from food, but stood out in the news because (a) it is a new strain and that is always scary and (b) it was an unusually high number of cases involved in a single outbreak. Most of the time, food poisoning deaths don’t make the news, even though we have more than an entire 9/11 each year in terms of such deaths.

  Now ask yourself how things like e. coli, which show up in fecal matter, keep ending up in our vegetable supply. Spinach and sprouts don’t create e. coli. It comes from fertilizer, but in the US it’s more commonly from runoff from factory farming.

  We pay for cheap meat through externalities, including such food poisoning deaths and in the form of superbugs.

  As for Fukushima, although I’m a supporter of nuclear power, I think your claim of fewer deaths from Fukushima may, in the long run, end up not being true.

 

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