How many 'bodies in the street' are needed? | Michael Tomasky

The egg salmonella outbreak here in the states, which has so far made about 1,500 people sick, is the result of several factors, but notably the tremendous consolidation of egg-farming in the last two decades into a smaller number of large factory farms, and the lack of regulatory oversight.

At TNR, Jonathan Cohn writes that in 1999, the Clinton administration was getting around to imposing new rules on the changing egg industry, but it was toward the tail end of the administration's days and ...