I grew up on a family farm. I’ve eaten beef, pork, chicken, turkey, goose, duck, and rabbit that my family raised.

All, absolutely all, types of meat can be mishandled during butchering and processing and can become unsafe to eat.

My kids are still eating school lunches, but not because of overwhelming confidence that the food will always be good. The simple fact is that eating anything one didn’t raise oneself, involves trusting that some unknown people will be responsible for the wholesomeness of the food.

Remember the E. coli contamination of spinach last year? Maybe we need more school gardens supplying school lunches. Maybe we can figure out a way to have FFA and 4-H livestock projects at urban schools.

Or maybe we just have to *hope* that the grocery stores and the schools aren’t going to poison us all one day.