[ExI] Organic foods/was Re: bees again

[Dan TheBookMan]

On Mar 20, 2016, at 11:19 AM, Tomaz Kristan <protokol2020 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Go to the extreme - buy organic foods. 
> 
> Some Germans did just that, a few years ago. Then the e-coli took several of them. At first they've tried to put the blame on Spanish cucumbers and tomatoes. Which are grown so non-organically there. 
> 
> But it were some domestic shit, they grew organically in Hamburg.

Isn't E. coli in food more a matter of contamination than whether it's organic? Also, doesn't cleaning or cooking take care of most of the problem? If not, given the popularity of organic* foods, why do we not see widespread deaths from eating them? Or am I missing some data here?

Regards,

Dan
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* The term is problematic since it means different things to different people.
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