Are you more at risk from terrorism or food poisoning?

If you've read this blog for a while, you know that I think the answer is food poisoning.  In 2011, 17 Americans were killed in all terrorist incidents worldwide. The same year, a single outbreak of listeriosis from tainted cantaloupe killed 33 people in the United States. Foodborne pathogens also sickened 48.7 million, hospitalized 127,839 and caused a total of 3,037 deaths.

Why then do we spend $75 billion a year fighting terrorism, but make it difficult for the FDA to get $1.1 billion to fund the food inspection program? 

Since the start of the 21st century, every state has experienced food poisoning and from companies like  Whole Foods, Trader Joe's, Taylor Farms Organics, Ralph's, Kroger, Food 4 Less, Costco, Dole, and Kellogg's.  We have recalled contaminated cheese, organic spinach, salad greens, lettuce, milk, ground beef, eggs, organic brown rice, peanut butter, mangoes, cantaloupe and hundreds of other popular foods.  Food poisoning has had 36,000 victims this century; terrorism 323.  We are 110 times more likely to die from contaminated food than terrorism, with 1 in 6 sickened every year at an annual cost to the economy of nearly $80 billion. 

Where is the rationality in all this?