tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
Hamburg, at the epicentre of the food crisis brought on by the EHEC pathogen, has run up the epidemic flag: the blood supply is running out, and vegetables are rotting unsold. ?We?re still alive,? hisses the vendor in her market booth. A report.
Ralf Wiegand
Gradually, salad is vanishing from Hamburg. Where green lettuce leaves once decorated the edge of a plate, restaurants are laying out a slice of melon. The appetising burst of colour on a sandwich comes from parsley sprigs. On K?sesemmel, buns with cheese baked on top, red bell peppers are substituting for slices of tomato. ?We can?t take on any more lettuce,? says the market vendor. Tomatoes, likewise, are being turned away. Outside the big city, the farmers are heading back out to their fields with pallet-loads of iceberg lettuce and rocket and dumping them, shredded, as green manure. The vegetables are coming back, unsold, from the wholesale markets.
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http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/697821-hamburg-agony-big-city
Ralf Wiegand
Gradually, salad is vanishing from Hamburg. Where green lettuce leaves once decorated the edge of a plate, restaurants are laying out a slice of melon. The appetising burst of colour on a sandwich comes from parsley sprigs. On K?sesemmel, buns with cheese baked on top, red bell peppers are substituting for slices of tomato. ?We can?t take on any more lettuce,? says the market vendor. Tomatoes, likewise, are being turned away. Outside the big city, the farmers are heading back out to their fields with pallet-loads of iceberg lettuce and rocket and dumping them, shredded, as green manure. The vegetables are coming back, unsold, from the wholesale markets.
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http://www.presseurop.eu/en/content/article/697821-hamburg-agony-big-city