Don't tell Michele Bachmann, but it turns out that when food
isn't adequately regulated, you can get giant deadly food
poisoning outbreaks. Most recently, a crop of listeria-tainted
cantaloupe has now killed 13 people officially, and possibly as
many as 16 — shooting right past the salmonella episode three
years ago that killed nine. This is the most deaths from
contaminated food since a 1998 listeria outbreak that killed 21.
Listeria is no joke: It can kill as many as one in five of the
people who fall ill from it. (The elderly and immune-compromised
are more likely to be killed by listeria, but also more likely
to get sick.) It can grow at refrigerator temperatures. And
symptoms can take more than a month to show up, making it really
hard to recall contaminated food in time. Jensen Farms, the
Colorado farm that produced the tainted cantaloupe, recalled the
fruit several weeks ago, but the CDC expects that we'll see more
deaths as delayed symptoms start to manifest.  The FDA hasn't
reached any conclusions o