In 1993, TV news anchors said that people were eating beef that was contaminated with E.coli, but I did nothing because I had never heard of E.coli before.

Then the news broke that people in another part of Washington State were affected by this E.coli outbreak, but I did nothing, because my family and I could just avoid that area.

Then there was the news that the E.coli outbreak was connected to hamburgers eaten at Jack in the Box restaurants, but I did nothing, because we could just avoid that restaurant and avoid eating hamburgers.

Then my son, Riley, became ill with E.coli – contracting the pathogen from a child who had eaten at Jack in the Box and become sick, but I could do nothing more than stand by and let the doctors try to make him better.

Then my son died from the E.coli illness, and there was no time left for this 16 month-old.

What exactly does that mean "cook only"? People usually DO cook meat. And this is supposed to help how? Unbelievable.
Well, maybe not given the record of this (and other) administrations in terms of food safety.
Phooey!

Darin - so sorry for your loss - you must have been devastated.
Neo-cons keep arguing that the government shouldn't be involved in anything - but just who exactly is supposed to be doing this, I'd really like to know!

We have seen already how well self-regulation works. NOT!