Mutagens on the menu

If you’re the sort of person who enjoys starting arguments, the topic of food safety is your ever-faithful friend. Everyone eats, and everyone has an opinion about what they eat and about all that weird stuff that other people are willing to put in their mouths. You’d think that the principle of de gustibus non disputandum est (there’s no accounting for taste) would forestall a lot of the wrangling, but look around you. There’s certainly a difference between arguing about matters of taste and matters of health and safety, but drawing an exact line between those is tricky.