Michael Greger Food poisoning causes illness in at least a third of the entire U.S. population every year and the fraction is increasing. Thousands of people die.
Most food poisoning is a result of our eating nonhuman animals.
What people don't realize is that drinking milk can be just as deadly. Infants, the elderly, and the immune suppressed are at particular risk. Although frankfurters are commonly infested also, listeriosis is an enormous problem for the dairy industry, costing them millions of dollars a year. The reason listeria bacteria are so frightening is that they can survive pasteurization and can grow to dangerous levels in refrigerated foods. In addition they survive the manufacturing process for cheese, and ice cream production.