Paging Dr. Gupta

Did anybody see CNN's special on Food Safety in the U.S.?

Last year, more than 350 people got sick or died eating tainted spinach and lettuce. Others got ill after consuming peanut butter contaminated with salmonella. A recent pet food scare, which killed and sickened many animals, has many consumers worried if it could drastically affect human health.

I thought it would be appropriate to watch considering all of my posts from last week on eating organically or locally. Geez, this show was depressing. Forget organic or local, they basically say that no produce is safe. They did say that the safest way to get rid of harmful poisons in food is irradiation. Great! So we have to kill all of our food before we eat it.

I think certain things we have to just choose to block out. We can do our best at trying to get the freshest foods we can and at some point stop worrying about what could happen. Right?