The food supply...
So, Tommy Thompson said that terrorist could poison our food supply.
Thompson, whose department oversees Medicare, Medicaid and federal welfare programs, is the eighth Cabinet member to announce his departure since Bush's reelection Nov. 2. Although resignation announcements are typically formal affairs heavy on platitudes, Thompson used an afternoon news conference about his departure to reveal that he worries "every single night" about "food poisoning" on a massive scale.
"I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not, you know, attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do," Thompson said. "And we are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that."
They are a tad late. Seems the military has beat 'em to it.
Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tests released this week have confirmed the presence of perchlorate - an explosive additive in solid rocket fuel - in almost every sample of lettuce and milk taken in a nationwide investigation. Perchlorate, leaking from military bases and defense contrator's facilities, is known to cause regional water pollution, resulting in serious health effects.
The FDA investigation found the toxic additive in 217 of 232 samples of lettuce and milk from 15 states, including areas not previously known for perchlorate contamination. According to the Environmental Protection Agency's perchlorate coordinator for the southwest and Pacific region, Kevin Mayer, the FDA results show that this regional pollution problem is now exposing people across the entire U.S. to the toxin.
Thompson, whose department oversees Medicare, Medicaid and federal welfare programs, is the eighth Cabinet member to announce his departure since Bush's reelection Nov. 2. Although resignation announcements are typically formal affairs heavy on platitudes, Thompson used an afternoon news conference about his departure to reveal that he worries "every single night" about "food poisoning" on a massive scale.
"I, for the life of me, cannot understand why the terrorists have not, you know, attacked our food supply, because it is so easy to do," Thompson said. "And we are importing a lot of food from the Middle East, and it would be easy to tamper with that."
They are a tad late. Seems the military has beat 'em to it.
Federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA) tests released this week have confirmed the presence of perchlorate - an explosive additive in solid rocket fuel - in almost every sample of lettuce and milk taken in a nationwide investigation. Perchlorate, leaking from military bases and defense contrator's facilities, is known to cause regional water pollution, resulting in serious health effects.
The FDA investigation found the toxic additive in 217 of 232 samples of lettuce and milk from 15 states, including areas not previously known for perchlorate contamination. According to the Environmental Protection Agency's perchlorate coordinator for the southwest and Pacific region, Kevin Mayer, the FDA results show that this regional pollution problem is now exposing people across the entire U.S. to the toxin.
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