Excerpt from online article
What the One Hand Giveth
A Tale of Apples and `Has-Sip'
by Jack Cashill
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The goal of the federal programs is
presumably to preserve health, but the poor health care that accompanies
rural joblessness literally kills more people each week than salmonella
or e-coli kill in a year. Indeed, there have been so few deaths in
America from shoddy food processing --- and so much publicity attending
those few --- that when one cites the Bon Vivant vichysoisse case of
1971, others of ripe enough age get the reference. For the record, one
person died in that incident, two were critically incapacitated. (It is
also the most recent lethal food poisoning case listed in a grim but
comprehensive Web site called "Caskets on Parade.") |