Begin quote from BBC news article about dioxin in thousands of German farms and farm products.
9 January 2011 Last updated at 13:06 ET
German minister urges tough action over dioxins scandal
Tests from the Harles und Jentzsch plant in northern Germany found excessive levels of dioxin The German government has called for tough legal action against those responsible for introducing a toxic chemical into livestock feed.
Agriculture Minister Ilse Aigner said the judiciary must "clamp down hard".Germany has frozen sales from thousands of farms after high levels of dioxin - which can cause cancer - were found in animal feed and eggs.
The contamination stems from a plant in Northern Germany, which is being investigated by prosecutors.
"This is a big blow for our farmers. They have totally innocently been dragged into this situation by the sick machinations of a few people," Ms Aigner told the Bild am Sonntag newspaper.
"It is tough enough to shake off the suspicion, given what we know so far, that criminal energy was combined with an alarming unscrupulousness." end quote
The real problem of this is of course the fact that there is no safe level of dioxin for anything living. The second problem is that feed contaminated would tend to make the dioxin level concentrate in the bodies of chickens and cows and pigs. So instead of getting a minor dose that might not harm one might get a dose that either might cause cancer or a pregnant woman to bear a child with multiple heads or limbs or just a mass of cells not really looking human at all. This is what 24d exposure which contains dioxin did to women who were sprayed by helicopters spraying overhead in the late 1970s and early 1980s on the west coast of the U.S. If people are eating animals who were ingesting food laced with dioxin then likely worse outcomes than the ones I speak about might take place for people who injest any parts of these animals. The really awful thing about this is the incredible damage that will be done to these farmers who were lied to. It seems almost like a terrorist plot to kill and maim Germans and something like someone like Osama Bin Laden would think up.
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