the e-coli disaster

Over 20 people dead and hundreds with kidney shutdown.  Just another dagger in the heart of the produce business.  Although Spanish cucumbers were originally blamed, then lettuce and tomatoes, it seems now that the infection may have originated at a German organic farm which produces bean sprouts.  These may have been mixed with the salad items blamed for the outbreak.  While the short term damage to the produce industry is bad enough, the long range problem is the rise of antibiotic resistant strains of common bacteria such as e-coli, salmonella, etc.  The promiscious use of antibiotics in agriculture must be curtailed.  The implications to the food chain we all depend on are too enormous to treat with any less than international action.  Meanwhile, no sprouts for dinner!