The news just reported that 76 million
 

...people in the U.S. get sick every year from food born illness. I had no idea the number is that high. In the U.S. thirteen people die daily from food poisoning.

That is a crazy number. I wonder how many get sick because of allergies.

I wonder how many are the same person just repeat once a month being poisoned because they can't cook properly?

Or eat rotten food... cooked ages ago...

After being in Italy for the last 2 weeks I can barely eat a meal here back in the states.

That is a pretty small number.

Population (300,000,000) X Daily Meals (3) X Days in a year (365)

= 328,500,000,000 meals per year (this is most likely the minimum, as I'd gather most people eat more than three times a day)

So 76 millions is only .02% of each meal.

0.0002%

Not sure if it's safer to just eat lottery tickets instead.

You have to move the decimal over two slots when making it a percent. 76,000,000 divided by 382,500,000,000 is .0002. Which is equal to .02%

Just as if you divide 60 by 100. It comes out to .6, which is equal to 60%.

:winkwink:

What feeds us also kills us.

Fuck off. I got an A in maths I can't have forgotten how to do % :(

10 years from now those numbers will look very tiny.