by Sarah Brady

About the author: Sarah Brady heads Handgun Control, Inc., a gun control organization. Her husband, former White House press secretary James Brady, was severely wounded by John W. Hinckley Jr. in a 1981 attempt to assassinate President Ronald Reagan.

Imagine how your holiday plans might have changed if you had learned that thousands of children and teens suffer sickness and death every year after eating Thanksgiving turkey. Imagine if public health researchers consistently traced a link between turkey and higher death rates among children. Even more terrifying, imagine if the turkey industry denied it had any responsibility to prevent these deaths and government agencies could do nothing to require the turkey industry to grow healthier birds, even though they knew how.

Don’t worry, your Thanksgiving turkey was safe. But another preventable...