Backlash?

USA Today runs a story today about aid to spinach growers, and it takes the point of view of one of the victims of the E. coli outbreak.
Here is how it begins:

Darryl Howard's mom, Betty, was among those who died after eating contaminated spinach last fall at her home in Washington state, he says.
He was stunned to learn last week that the emergency bill to fund the Iraq war and Hurricane Katrina relief included $25 million to compensate spinach growers hurt when consumers stopped buying their products.
"They killed my mother, and now they want me to pay for it," Howard says.

TK: Props to some lawmakers - notably Rep. Sam Farr - who spoke up for the farmers who were also innocent victims, so to speak, of an outbreak they had no part in. The article also draws a contrast to the "must-pass" nature of this war funding bill and the food safety reform bill by Rep. Rosa DeLauro that languishes in committee.