The outrageous numbers behind the food safety bill and why this same $1.4 billion would be better spent elsewhere:

[Sandra]

Despite all the food safety hype and fear-mongering, did you know that e.coli transmitted through food only kills 78 people a year in America? (Source: CDC).

In fact, if you actually do the math on food borne fatalities and what's being addressed by the recent Food Safety Modernization Act, it turns out that the U.S. government is going to
spend nearly $1 million for each fatality prevented -- and that's assuming the FDA's food safety plan even works! (And that it stays on budget...)

Here's my economic analysis of the outrageous numbers behind the food safety bill and why this same $1.4 billion would be better spent elsewhere:

http://www.naturalnews.com/030853_food_safety_government_spending.html