Jack in the Burger

One thing that really caught my eye in chapter nine was the increase in children being sickened all of a sudden after eating burgers that were inadequelty cooked in a jack in a box restuarant. Hundreds of people got sick and most of which were young kids. Amoung the first to be sickened was Lauren Beth Rudolph. She was just one of many kids who were going through bloody diarrhea and sharp stomach pain. Sadly she passed away just a few days before christmas in her mothers arms at the young age of 6 years old.
This really got to me and you would think that after a childs death the contaminated food would be vanished but signs of contamination still floated around years after. "In the eight years since the Jack in the Box outbrake, approximately half a million Americans , the majority of them children, have been made ill by E. coli 0157:H7. Thousands have been hospitalized, and hundreds have died." (Schlosser,199). Main reason why this topic took my interest was because of how bad this bacteria really is. The company, Vons Companies, Inc, did in fact recall the contaminated beef but at a slow pace. Kids ultimately got sick anyway but issues like this should be taken care of as soon as possible and with greater consideration for the sake of childrens health.