Oh crap, millions have eaten contaminated chickens

Here's CNN:

People have eaten millions of chickens that were given feed tainted with recalled pet food, federal officials said Tuesday, though they said the threat to human health is minimal.

The announcement came after an investigation of chicken farms in Indiana found that 38 of the facilities had given contaminated feed to poultry raised for human consumption, and that 2.5 million to 3 million people ate them.

The officials added that they expect to discover that chickens on possibly hundreds of farms in other states were also given tainted feed.

I think what Deep Harm on DailyKos says is important:

The pet food crisis closely parallels a scenario that might result from a terrorist attack directly on the human food supply. If this is how authorities plan to handle such an attack, we are in deep, DEEP trouble.

This is Republican ideology at work: gut regulation and enforcement, let corporations do whatever they want, people's well-being be damned. This has got to stop. Bush is bad, but the whole ideology needs to be defeated.