Non sequitur and cucumbers

According to the BBC (my emphasis):

Derek Hargreaves of Britain's Cucumber Growers' Association told the BBC on Thursday that he feared the outbreak would affect British producers if the source of the E. coli remained unknown.

"If this keeps rolling on and the Germans don't find the source of the outbreak, then obviously people are going to say 'well, there's no point in listening to experts, they've all got it wrong,' people will stop buying the salads."

A contender for the non sequitur of the year competition one might think – except that in the British context he may, depressingly, be right.He also has a strong line in pessimism, which won’t do his trade association much good.