Is the food we eat safe? It seems not, considering all the coverage of the recent peanut scare. Other recent recalls have included tomatoes and seafood.

What's striking every time there's a food recall is how nobody in the government knows what's going on. For example, during the tomato scare, Mexican suppliers were at first implicated as the source of contamination. Just as quickly, they were later exonerated.

Perhaps the threat of food-borne illness is so front and center in our minds because of our 24/7 news cycle. But there's no denying there's a real problem here. Recent numbers from the Center for Disease Control show a jump in the rate of food-borne illnesses over the last 5 years.

Who is most affected? Children under age 4 and adults over age 50.

The problem is that there's no cop on the beat. Clark thinks we need a federal agency whose sole mission is to oversee the food supply. It's just plain silly that we don't have such an agency in our modern society. It's a no-brainer.