When did you first hear about E-Coli. I think it was back in the late eighties. I diffinitivly remember when Jack in the Box went faceless, back in the early nineties, when E-Coli was detected in one of it's products and their ads reverted to the clown head.
Coincidentally E-Coli bacteria are used for gene splicing. Something to do with E-Coli being able to carry the gene that's been changed, or something, and the new cells start to reproduce with the newly engineering spliced gene. Didn't that technology begin in the eighties, about the time we heard of the first E-Coli outbreak?
If so this is a dangerous indicator of how safety is applied to an industry and this potentially dangerous technology. Everything fits. We know people make mistakes in the work place. Is the bio-engineering industry any different from the rest of human nature. Did someone accidentally spill our pour a contaminated sample down a drain, or release a product with fully understanding how the E-Coli used would transport to other products. Who knows? An infinite variety of mistakes could be made. And judging by human nature, and someone who hurrying to get off work and go home, maybe a short cut was taken that has caused the release of new forms of E-Coli to be introduced into the environment.
I wish I had the time, knowledge and resources to do the research here. I fully suspect someone who did, would find an industry cover-up, incompetence, malfeasance, character assassination, you name it. Also what about the recent spinach E-Coli break out? Is there any trail between the genetically modified food industry and anything associated with Spinach. Remember Odwalla: a famous unpasteurized fruit drink product and company that was decimated when E-coli contamination was found in some of their products. And then there's cows. How many E-coli outbreaks have we had related to the meat and dairy industry? Cows eat the corn, which is widely known to be a genetically modified product.
The path of an event is this. First there's a reporting of illness from E-coli. It was a big news event. The FDA and related industry said they'd get back to us, a typical tactic it seems was wait until the media furor died down. Maybe that was wise, but then if there was any chance for industry to confuse the issue something would be slipped into the media. The media math seems simple. Increase complexity and you decrease interest. All the while the companies involved are sincerely concerned about the health of their customers and they start to name suppliers.
Are there E-Coli outbreaks originating in other countries which haven't participated in the GM industry?
Look! The industry is going to 'bamboozle' any argument with an unrecognizable trail through the courts and any media they can confuse. Are the real sources of E-Coli the companies monopolizing the GM industry. The conclusions are all going to have to be conjecture, left for the public to decide. Look how the industry has beat back GM labeling even though eighty to ninety percent of the people want their food labeled if its been genetically modified.
