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Daily Moderate Consumption of Beer or Other Alcohol Beverages May be Healthy from PhysOrg.com
The moderate, daily consumption of beer and other alcohol beverages can play a role in a healthful lifestyle and in reducing the risk of several serious diseases, including coronary heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cognitive disorders and osteoporosis, according to medical and scientific researchers who presented papers at a recent conference on the role of beer and alcohol in a healthful lifestyle. […]

Lettuce grower says tests come back negative for E. coli

San Francisco Chronicle - (10-10) 17:37 PDT SALINAS — Samples of tainted irrigation water that prompted a Salinas grower to recall more than 8,500 cartons of green leaf lettuce Sunday tested negative for a feared strain of E. coli, the produce company said today.

from MoreWhat.com staff:
So that’s it? Funny how all the recent E.coli problems are originating in Salinas County California and not reported as anywhere else. If the problem truly is just in Salinas County, why not concentrate efforts there and solve the problem? Oh no! Economic disaster for the county would be unacceptable. But for a problem that resulted in death, it seems criminal. Where are the blame game players now? Everyday you can read about blame in politics. Where is the blame game in agriculture?

C. Harris

U.S. food supply safer than before, regulators say

Tue Oct 10, 2006 6:50 PM ET By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Recent food recalls, including the case of E. coli-contaminated spinach that killed three and sickened 200 people, raise questions about the safety of U.S. food, but regulators said on Tuesday the U.S. food supply is becoming safer. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 76 million Americans get sick every year from foodborne illnesses, 5,000 of them die and 300,000 are hospitalized.

from MoreWhat.com staff:
In this article a lawmaker wants to do guess what? That’s right, make another law to fix something where a law likely already exists. Wonder if the executive ever considered enforcing the laws.

Here’s a novel idea. Check the law books boyz, locate the ones you need to prosecute negligence on the part of the producers of the tainted food and then proceed. Oh no!!! Hold those who provided the tainted food responsible? That’s not fair. No one could prevent this. It’s just bad luck.

If those who produced the food are not responsible, then who is? The people who ate it? Instead of more legislation why don’t we try holding those responsible, I don’t know, responsible. With severe enough penalties the neglectful or intentional misdeed would be less likely to occur for fear of disaster for not preventing such a tragedy. The lives of those lost cannot be fixed.

C. Harris