ALL SHE ATE WAS A MEATBALL - AND IT NEARLY KILLED HER

"We nearly lost her," said Marcel Rodriguez as he held his 2-year-old daughter's
tiny hand Thursday at Children's Hospital. "All she ate was a meatball." This is from that ConAgra recall I pointed to in an earlier post ("Got Chubs?"). Turns out USDA had found e-coli infected meat weeks before but didn't tell anyone, because - and this, they admit, is the reason - they didn't want to do any damage to the company. So instead, a couple dozen people have been made violently ill and parents have watched their young children almost die. Gotta have those priorities!