Jeff Benedict is an award-winning journalist and author who teaches writing at Southern Virginia University. His book, "Poisoned: The True Story of the Deadly E. coli Outbreak That Changed the Way Americans Eat," was published in 2011.
In 1993, 623 people in the western U.S. fell ill with a little-known bacteria called E. coli O157:H7. Ultimately, four children would die from their infections; many others
When I left Connecticut with my family four years ago, we settled into a rural Civil War-era farm in Virginia. I never intended to farm — I was just happy to
