The FDA warns that there is a potential for e-coli tainted spinach in many states, and everybody should be tossing the salad spinach before they toss their salad thanks to e-coli poisoning.

What always strikes me about the drama of these warnings is that today in the USA about 100 people will die from Car accidents, and another 50+ from fatal gunshots, and hundreds more from preventable heart disease, smoking, etc, etc.    Shouldn’t we have warnings about these far greater dangers to our health?

People often say about, for example, malaria deaths globally or traffic deaths in USA  “that’s not news”, but I’ve met no people who can cite the statistics for preventable death in the USA, let alone the world.  Doesn’t that make it news to them?    Also, the huge numbers of deaths from what many call “not newsworthy” causes dwarf those of the “newsworthy” causes.

I call that fact alone ….. newsworthy.