Both of those industries have tremendous regulations in place to prevent accidents and injuries. If someone gets salmonella poisoning and it is traced back to a company, there is a massive recall at the company's expense. Air travel is one of the safest modes of transportation available (statistically) because of the NCTB and the rules/regulations put in place after each and every accident.
Air travel is only safe because companies have taken these risks with people's life. A society that takes no risk is a society that will achieve nothing new.
That's how it is profoundly different.