Raving mad islamo-terrorists or poisonous food?

In 2011, the year of Osama bin Laden's death, the State Department reported that 17 Americans were killed in all terrorist incidents worldwide. The same year, a single outbreak of listeriosis from tainted cantaloupe killed 33 people in the United States. Foodborne pathogens also sickened 48.7 million, hospitalized 127,839 and caused a total of 3,037 deaths. This is a typical year, not an aberration.
We have more to fear from contaminated cantaloupe than from al-Qaeda, yet the United States spends $75 billion per year spread across 15 intelligence agencies in a scattershot attempt to prevent terrorism, illegally spying on its own citizens in the process. By comparison, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is struggling to secure $1.1 billion in the 2014 federal budget for its food inspection program, while tougher food processing and inspection regulations passed in 2011 are held up by agribusiness lobbying in Congress. The situation is so dire that Jensen Farms, the company that produced the toxic cantaloupe that killed 33 people in 2011, had never been inspected by the FDA.

Cantaloupe vs. al-Qaeda: What's More Dangerous?

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What scares me more is that Obama will take our guns away and we'll no longer be able to defend ourselves against those nefarious cantaloupes.

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What scares me more are Republicans who think we don't need food inspectors.

What scares me more is that politicians (mostly republicans) have auctioned off our judicial and political system to the highest bidder (multi-national corporations).

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Clearly food needs to be inspected on a basis which insures standards of safety.

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..I also have a 427 Cobra replica with an aluminum chassis.

It's a good thing I was between sips of coffee when I saw that, or I'd be cleaning my monitor and keyboard right now

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It is all a question of scale and accountability.

The problem of terror is that it is costly to track and to deal with. From the viewpoint of the terrorist this is the entire point.

The problem of food is that once a problem is found and pinpointed the producer has a great deal to lose, so there is every effort (or at least there should be) for a producer to produce a safe product.

Food inspectors work on a 'trust but verify' principal, and terrorist work on a 'you never know where I will strike next' principal.

The goals of each group are also so different it is hard to stack one problem up against the other.

http://http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbYHYwg0ImI

shot by on of them assault rifle rounds

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It's the Jews, Trilateralists, Bush, and Freemasons who decide these things.

You forgot the illuminati and the secret one world govenment bent on chaos

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... and the Pope.

Dan Brown needs to update his books to describe the present-day conspiracies.

There are so few actual food inspections due to budget cuts that "trust and verify" is more like "cross your heart and HOPE", putting food borne illness into the same category as terror. Nobody knows where it'll strike next.

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84 Euro 240D 4spd. 220.5k sold
04 Honda Element AWD
1985 F150 XLT 4x4, 351W with 270k miles, hay hauler
1997 Suzuki Sidekick 4x4
1993 Toyota 4wd Pickup 226K and counting

This is part of the conseqence of our nation denying how broke we are, and our elected representatives still acting like 13 year old girls with a new credit card on a shopping spree.
Sooner or later, the "great default" is going to happen, its already written into our nations history, just a matter of when.

Failure to enforce food safety standards for want of money is just a sign of crumbling ability to meet basic payment obligations of our society.

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