Each day, Americans are “hammered” with visual messages on TV and the Internet. But how many are trite, and how many are truly useful? Do we really need to know whose kitty can play the piano? Or do we need to know which defective drugs or injury accidents threaten our loved ones?

At Jim S. Adler & Associates, we’re trying to close the information gap not only in our website’s written content, but in its videos. That’s why we’ve created “Hammer TV,” a video-only Web service filled with helpful safety tips and information for keeping your family whole and healthy.

Named after longtime Texas personal injury attorney Jim “the Texas Hammer” Adler, Hammer TV hosts a variety of “Top Stories” videos on the dangers and costs of SUVs, ATVs, distracted drivers, salmonella food poisoning, uninsured motorists, defective drugs such as Paxil and — one of our biggest threats, literally — the risks posed by big rig, tractor trailer, semi truck and 18 wheeler vehicles.

But don’t worry: There’s also a human touch. Among Hammer TV’s “Top Stories” and “News on JSA Charities,” it offers looks at small children in need getting free “snow parties” or holiday clothes, and even an “up close and personal” look at the Texas Hammer himself, Jim Adler.

Hammer TV also has a touching tribute to Kevin Hills, a Texan who was killed by an 18 wheeler, and a heartwarming dedication to the staff and volunteers of Safe Kids Greater Houston, whose mission is to keep our kids safe.

Or check out Hammer TV’s “PSAs” tab for tips on road rage, water safety, kid safety and the dangers of texting while driving. Heck, you even can watch Jim Adler’s famed “TV Commercials” all in one place — and with no interruptions by annoying TV shows.

It’s all there for you — and for free — on Hammer TV. Tune in, and learn more.

Beyond that, the Texas Hammer has hard-hitting videos for you on YouTube and on Facebook.

On Facebook, check out Jim Adler’s latest flipcam interviews about Toyota’s massive stuck accelerator recall and why the Japanese automaker can’t be trusted, as well as his take on the computer screens coming to car dashboards this fall. Crazy, right?

Also on YouTube as well as on Facebook, watch the emotional video Jim Adler’s firm created for Mothers Against Drunk Driving and MADD Victim Services. Drunk drivers take a terrible toll in human life and in the anguish of victims’ survivors. This video puts a powerful face on them and is a moving reminder that we all have a responsibility to protect each other.

Call it reality TV with meaning and a message. Or call it Hammer TV. Either way, it’s here for you.

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Food poisoning scares come and go, but none should be taken lightly. According to the Food and Drug Administration, about 5,000 Americans annually die due to some form of poisoning in the food they eat. Whether it’s from bad beef, tainted tomatoes or putrid peanuts doesn’t matter. Food can be dangerous — and that’s dead serious.

So are we, when it comes to defending your rights in a food poisoning lawsuit. If you or a loved one are harmed by food poisoning, see a physician promptly, and then alert a food poisoning lawyer or attorney with Jim S. Adler & Associates.

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First, peanut butter. Then, tomatoes. Then, peanut butter again. Now, pistachios?

Before you say “Nuts!” to all nuts, keep in mind they may be fine. But until the Food and Drug Administration completes a probe into possible salmonella food poisoning in pistachios, the feds are advising Americans to squirrel away those nuts until the “all clear” sounds.

That advice isn’t aimed just at pistachios themselves, but at any product which contains them, from trail mix to ice cream. Again, it may not be contaminated. But since those products have a long shelf life anyway, why not wait until the FDA has proven them A-OK?

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Jim “the Hammer” Adler is fed up with food poisoning. Even if the peanut butter salmonella outbreak doesn’t hit us all, it could kill all of our appetites. The latest queasy quotient comes from news that Peanut Corporation of America — a name which could forever live in infamy — also has had its Plainview plant in West Texas shut down after dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers were found there.

Now, mixing jelly with peanut butter is one thing, but dead rodents is a bit too adventurous for most tastes — and unhealthy enough to prompt a recall of all existing products ever shipped from the Plainview plant. PCA’s now-shuttered Blakely, Ga. plant already has been branded with that distinction.

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The latest atrocities reported from the front lines of America’s salmonella food poisoning battle indicate that the responsible company, Peanut Corporation of America, shipped products to consumers even prior to learning results of lab tests which would reveal salmonella.

Peanut Corp. reportedly found salmonella in its own testing, then “lab shopped” to try to find a lab which would provide a favorable report. Meanwhile, it shipped tainted peanut products to consumers in various states. Many persons have been stricken with salmonella in Minnesota, California, Michigan, Ohio, Massachusetts and Virginia. Still more cases have arisen in Florida, Arizona, North Dakota, Texas, Idaho and New Hampshire.

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If the economy gets any worse, we’ll all be eating peanuts. They’re cheap and nutritious. But these days, they can be deadly.

Peanuts are under assault by manufacturers who have no respect for America’s favorite comfort food or the well being of their fellow Americans. When the FBI starts raiding peanut plants for salmonella food poisoning you know the situation is out of control at a time when peanut products need more protection than ever given the state of the economy.

In some respects, Africa is better off than we are when it comes to peanuts. What does Africa have to do with it? Read on. But first, a reprise of American values.

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To eat, or not to eat? That’s hardly the question, since we must ingest and imbibe to survive. But with America rocked by another salmonella food poisoning outbreak, questions do arise. One is, “How bad is it?” Another is, “What do we do now?”

CBS News helped answer the first with a report today from the now-closed Blakely, Ga. plant of Peanut Corporation of America, believed to be the source of a salmonella outbreak that’s killed eight people so far and sickened hundreds — if not thousands — of others. This follows another devastating salmonella food poisoning onslaught last fall which struck down many Americans via a Mexican produce supplier.

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Just when you thought negligence in peanut butter salmonella food poisoning couldn’t get worse, it has. The New York Times reports that Food and Drug Administration officials inspecting Peanut Corporation of America’s plant in southwest Georgia learned that plant leaders knew of salmonella contamination, failed to negate it and issued the tainted food anyway.

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When an outbreak of salmonella food poisoning struck thousands of Americans last fall, federal investigators spent months seeking the proverbial “smoking gun.” In short, they spent months trying to pinpoint the origin and responsibility of an onslaught which sickened and even killed.

First they targeted tomatoes, and eventually jalapeno peppers, then Serrano peppers. Finally the “smoking gun” turned out to be a Mexican farm from which the corrupted Serrano peppers entered the food supply.

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American food suppliers involved in the peanut butter salmonella food poisoning outbreak can count themselves lucky that they live here and not in China. In China today, a court condemned two men to execution and another person to life in prison for their roles in China’s recent tainted milk calamity.

Those folks were responsible for the deaths of at least six infants and illness that struck another 300,000 kids when they allowed raw milk to be watered down and mixed with melamine, a banned industrial chemical designed to make the milk seem protein-rich, even though it wasn’t.

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