Below is the homepage for the the Peanut Corporation of America that has been busy shipping salmonella contaminated peanut butter out to kids around the country. First thing I learned, this stuff has nothing to do with the tasty pink fish abundant here in the Pacific Northwest. That would be Salmon Peanut Butter. Which doesn’t harm you at all when you eat it, but it don’t smell good…
It turns out that the company has a long history of producing tainted food. That the company has done little to nothing to repair its peanut processing facilities (maybe the holes in the walls should be closed up) and MOST AMAZINGLY that they proudly proclaim (as a corporate tag line on their homepage) that they are – “Processors of the World’s Finest Peanut Products” They must be using an alternative definition of the phrase, ‘world’s finest peanut products’. That tag line might work if they were manufacturing weaponized peanut butter for covert activities, (“Your orders Secret Agent Trill. Slip the terrorists 3 peanut butter snack crackers and get the hell out!”) but nothing is fine to me about ignoring health and safety guidelines, in order to make more dollars no doubt, repeatedly until people die because of it.
They may not have repaired their facilities, or used proper hygiene in preparing their products, or complied with the legal testing methods for food preparation, but someone in marketing had the good sense to add that tag line. Good job!
I hope the ‘America’ they reference so proudly in their companies name doesn’t lose more 5 year olds to the deadly products they shipped out.
