A Sobering Thought
Each day, about 200,000 Americans are sickened by contaminated food. Every year, about 325,000 are hospitalized by a food-borne illness. And the number who are killed annually by something they ate is roughly the same as the number of Americans who’ve been killed in Iraq and Afghanistan since 2003.Read Eric Schlosser's full Op-Ed "Unsafe at Any Meal" at the NYTimes.
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