Every man is a borrower and a mimic, life is theatrical and literature a quotation.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ms. Smith, 22, was found to have a severe form of food-borne illness caused by E. coli, which Minnesota officials traced to the hamburger that her mother had grilled for their Sunday dinner in early fall 2007.
“I ask myself every day, ‘Why me?’ and ‘Why from a hamburger?’ ”Ms. Smith said. In the simplest terms, she ran out of luck in a food-safety game of chance whose rules and risks are not widely known.
Woman’s Shattered Life Shows Ground Beef Inspection Flaws. It’s stuff like this that makes me wonder if it’s time to switch back to a ban on meat.