Intellectual Property Law

He went on, ?I went to the produce section to buy a bag. But they had all been recalled. Three people had died from E. coli contamination from eating spinach. I decided I could live without the spinach.

?Next they came for the peanut butter.?

And after that, he wrote, they came for the tomatoes, the Taco Bell lettuce, the mushrooms, the ham steaks and summer sausage, and even the pet food. And he noted that in the case of the peanut butter, it was a bad roof and a defective sprinkler system in a plant in Georgia?never noticed by the remaining FDA inspectors?that had allowed salmonella to flourish. Perlstein?s conclusion: ?George Bush?s Food and Drug Administration?and our other major food-inspection arm, the U.S. Department of Agriculture?are Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan?s noble words made flesh. But don?t let your family get too close to the flesh. They might get sick and die.?