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Making people sick to the tune of about $152 billion a year. here's a short clip from the film. >> the animals stand ankle deep in their manure all day long. so that if one cow has it the other cows will get it. when they get to the slaughterhouse their hides are caked with manure. and if the slaughterhouse is slaughtering 400 animals an hour, how do you keep the manure from getting on to the carcasses? that's how the manure gets in the meat. >> robert kenner from "food inc." joins us now. what are some of the examples of dangerous things going on in food production a lot of folks weren't awar...

>> reporter: here are several shelves full of metal organizers donated by the walt disney company. here three pallets of labels donated by the avery company. if teachers need something to brighten up their classroom a little bit, there's even fine art. >> there was all this scrapbooking material there. some of those supplies will save a lot of money. >> what do we have here? oh, look at these, you guys. these are the best. >> when students see that businesses are giving to them right now, they're going to be much more willing to go out into the community and give back when they're in that posi...

Your study found out it is actually $152 billion. a cost of $1,851 per illness. were you surprised by that? >> it was actually done, the study was done by an economist who used to work for the food and drug administration and used center for disease control data. we were very surprised when he came back with these numbers. the reason that the numbers are so much higher than previous estimates. he looked at the full array of all of food borne illnesses, looked at a few specific i illnesses and also looked at the whole wide array of costs, out-of-pocket expenses, as well as lost work and so on. ...

Pack for american auto companies and last month sales at ford soared 43%. you know, sometimes people need to get a new car, and they went to ford to do that. last month. and meanwhile, trouble for a japanese carmaker. nissan. issued a recall, mainly affecting u.s. vehicles, vehicles made in the u.s., 540,000 pick-ups, that is a lot, suvs and mini-means, need to fix problems with brakes and fuel gauges and the recalls, owners will be notified when to come into the dealership. bill: and came across this, stunning figures on tainted food in the u.s. there is a study by the dues safety project tha...

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