Friday, January 14, 2011

4700 german farms shut down after feed contamination

3,000 tons of feed distributed to farms of all sort suspected of being contaminated with dioxin.  As a result, organic producers are becoming very popular.   Most of the closed farms were raising pigs, but eggs, chicken meat and other farms were affected. 

Dioxin animal feed scare shuts German farms

2 comments:

Kevin Kossowan said...

Wow. How upsetting for a farmer going about their business to find out their supplier essentially axed their business. I wonder what kind of recourse they have. Likely little to none.

lytha said...

we got back to germany from our seattle vacation a week ago and i just went ahead and shopped meat like normal, and we cooked and ate it, and now i hear from the neighbors (who watch the news) that there might be a problem. *sigh* my trouble is i always trust the government to protect me when it comes to buying meat. HM.

i wonder what dioxin does to you..