An excerp of a letter...from the Courier TimesBucks County, Pa. To the Editor:I'm no mathematician, but the figures I'm going to throw out to you enrage me. Approximately 165 people have gotten sick from eating tomatoes since April; 24 are reported being hospitalized. One person has died who was unfortunately already sick with an underlying condition. Stores and restaurants are pulling tomatoes off their shelves and menus. People are scared to eat tomatoesLetters to the editor for 06-19-08 (phillyBurbs_com) Reader Voices.htm
An excerp of a letter...from the Courier TimesBucks County, Pa. To the Editor:CONTINUED...Are you scared to take your pill today or start a new one? Approximately 2 million people a year are sickened or injured by OTC and prescription drugs; over 100,000 die. You do the math. Have the media told you that? Oh, yea, they're owned by pharmaceutical companies. We wouldn't want to put them out of business. Let's just put our hard-working farmers out of business. More people have gotten sick in the past hour from prescription and OTC drugs than have gotten sick from tomatoes in the past three months. Is this why we don't even make the top 10 in life expectancy? How does any of this make any sense? We have become a drug-dependent, oversanitized society with no immune systems. How many healthy people are keeling over because they ate some contaminated food? (According to the CDC, deaths are rare). How many healthy people are on drugs? Do the farmers a favor and eat your tomatoes.Marina ShearnDublinJune 19, 2008 5:52 AM
Closed AccountJun 28, 2008
it's tomahtoes not tomaytoes
corbettkroehlerJun 28, 2008
FDA'a enforcement authority has been shrunk often in recent years thanks to the Grover Norquists of the world.
beauleyJun 28, 2008
An excerp of a letter...from the Courier TimesBucks County, Pa. To the Editor:I'm no mathematician, but the figures I'm going to throw out to you enrage me. Approximately 165 people have gotten sick from eating tomatoes since April; 24 are reported being hospitalized. One person has died who was unfortunately already sick with an underlying condition. Stores and restaurants are pulling tomatoes off their shelves and menus. People are scared to eat tomatoesLetters to the editor for 06-19-08 (phillyBurbs_com) Reader Voices.htm
beauleyJun 28, 2008
An excerp of a letter...from the Courier TimesBucks County, Pa. To the Editor:CONTINUED...Are you scared to take your pill today or start a new one? Approximately 2 million people a year are sickened or injured by OTC and prescription drugs; over 100,000 die. You do the math. Have the media told you that? Oh, yea, they're owned by pharmaceutical companies. We wouldn't want to put them out of business. Let's just put our hard-working farmers out of business. More people have gotten sick in the past hour from prescription and OTC drugs than have gotten sick from tomatoes in the past three months. Is this why we don't even make the top 10 in life expectancy? How does any of this make any sense? We have become a drug-dependent, oversanitized society with no immune systems. How many healthy people are keeling over because they ate some contaminated food? (According to the CDC, deaths are rare). How many healthy people are on drugs? Do the farmers a favor and eat your tomatoes.Marina ShearnDublinJune 19, 2008 5:52 AM