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The New York Times reports (as did The CBS Evening News last night) that a House subcommittee is going to meet today to investigate not only all of the food recalls and contaminations of the past couple of years but to examine just how the FDA operates in general.

Evidence has come to light that the FDA may have been aware of the spinach and peanut butter contamination several months before the sicknesses occurred but didn't do as much as they could have. One problem is the resources. As CBS said, even though the FDA is responsible for 80% of the food in this country and the USDA for the other twenty, for some reason, the USDA has three times as many inspectors. The FDA has also been busier with the "D" part of their name in recent years.

As someone who grew up in New England, I'm a big Dunkin' Donuts fan. I'm not a coffee drinker (I'm a tea guy), but I love their donuts and their other foods. One of their classic donut alternatives is the Dunkin' Munchkin, a small, round donut that would be the hole in a regular donut if they didn't take it out (though it looks a lot thicker than that hole would be). It's a neat, bite-sized donut, and you can eat several of them at one sitting.

Katie Couric likes them too. The CBS Evening News anchor mentioned on her blog that she loves the little donuts, and (you guessed it) someone at Dunkin Donuts sent her boxes and boxes of them, along with a ton of coffee to wash them down. And now everyone is up in arms over it, calling it unethical that she didn't send the donuts back.

Should Katie give the donuts back? Or can we just say that she didn't mean to get free donuts, and now that she did, big deal? It's going to be shared with her coworkers and it's a minor thing and we shouldn't be up in arms over it?