And if you've come to terms with last month's mantras of misery, you can bet that another scare will surface next month. Virtually nothing is absolutely safe in all circumstances and in all quantities. Under remote and unlikely circumstances almost anything can cause or contribute to a fatal illness of someone, somewhere. Yet people talk about safety as if it were a black and white thing. Experts know that is not the way it really is.
Risk is usually relative.
Take health foods and flying. Well, sort of. Experience tells us that, for all practical purposes, they are very safe. But that does not mean that, under certain rare circumstances, someone may not die from contaminated health food or from a badly managed airline. Activists are to be applauded for reminding us to keep moving toward absolute safety.