The first article I read this Sunday morning is the one below. Read it and tell me whether you want to eat another hamburger. A few years back I asked HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson what kept him up at night, anthrax? small pox? and he said no, our food supply....
Trail of E. Coli Shows Flaws in Inspection of Ground Beef
By MICHAEL MOSS
Stephanie Smith, a children’s dance instructor, thought she had a stomach virus. The aches and cramping were tolerable that first day, and she finished her classes.
Then her diarrhea turned bloody. Her kidneys shut down. Seizures knocked her unconscious. The convulsions grew so relentless that doctors had to put her in a coma for nine weeks. When she emerged, she could no longer walk. The affliction had ravaged her nervous system and left her paralyzed.
Ms. Smith, 22, was found to have a severe form of food-borne illness caused by E. coli, which Minnesota officials traced to the hamburger that her mother had grilled for their Sunday dinner in early fall 2007.
“I ask myself every day, ‘Why me?’ and ‘Why from a hamburger?’ ”Ms.
