US News and World Report this week is taking a look at how to eat safe-- and not get sick like the millions of Americans that do each year from food bourne illnesses. I think everyone has a horror story of eating at a restaurant and not making it home without incident..

The one thing that surprised me was this graph:

US NEWS reporting of all the different country sources the United States gets it food from.

The magazine on organic food:

"The good news: Organic produce does carry less pesticide and herbicide residue than conventionally grown crops. And under federal law, organic milk, meat, and produce can't contain added growth hormones, antibiotics, or genetically modified organisms. But organic produce and meat can just as easily be contaminated with bacteria, heavy metals, or other pathogens that pose significant health risks. A recent study found that organic chickens were just as likely as their regular brethren to be contaminated with campylobacter; some organic birds had more bacteria. And the California spinach contaminated by E. coli last year had been grown using organic methods."

Eating safe may be the hardest thing to do..