Peter Pan Poison Problem
by Jeff Davis
First it was spinach, then scallions, then lettuce. Now it’s peanut butter that’s poisoning people. The American food industry is turning into a weapon of mass destruction. A Reuters article reports “The FDA had said on Wednesday that certain batches of Peter Pan peanut butter may contain salmonella and that all had a product code on the lid of the jar beginning with 2111….More than 290 people from 39 states have become ill in the food poisoning outbreak, and 46 have been hospitalized, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported. ConAgra Foods Inc., which makes Peter Pan, said earlier it was checking the source of the contamination, which may have also affected the Great Value label peanut butter it makes for retailer Wal-Mart. The FDA said the suspect Great Value peanut butter also could be identified by the 2111 code.”
Ordinarily, processed food such as peanut butter has a number of routine health and sanitizing procedures, pasteurization and that kind of thing, built into the manufacturing techniques. These include radiating degradable food products to sterilizing the containers. Apparently something or someone slipped up somewhere along the line. “The CDC has identified the strain of bacteria as Salmonella Tennessee, one of many strains of salmonella bacteria. They can cause nausea, diarrhea and other ill effects, but usually the sickness clears up on its own in less than a week.”
Now, let’s think about this. How do you poison PEANUT BUTTER, of all things? Bacteria grow in unsanitary and unsterilized conditions. I can see how that can happen in an agricultural setting. You have stuff growing in the dirt, probably fertilized with manure that may contain bacteria. We have all driven by farms sometimes with just one outhouse for all the fruit pickers. Often the scallions or lettuce is being picked and packed and handled and pawed over by illegal aliens from the jungles of central America rife with diseases we’ve never heard of. Produce is organic plant material, as such subject to decay and therefore hosting microorganisms. The spinach and lettuce outbreaks shouldn’t have happened and wouldn’t have happened in a sane country run by sane people motivated by something other than the Almighty Dollar, but at least it’s clear how it could have happened.
How can a modern food processing and manufacturing facility for a major brand name such as Peter Pan become contaminated with salmonella? Did someone forget to sterilize the glass and plastic jars the stuff is sold in? Was there no inspection or sample testing of the product during the manufacturing process? Were there dead rats or feces in the vats? What? How incompetent or apathetic or stupid or malicious does everyone in a big huge factory have to be in order to poison a whole batch of their product, and what kind of stumblebums are the FDA and health inspectors not to pick up on whatever was wrong? How long before some kindergarten kid eats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich at recess and keels over dead?
Can you say Affirmative Action? Sure you can! Who, exactly, was working in that peanut butter processing plant? Illegal aliens? Black quota hires failing to do the proper FDA inspections? Dumbed-down multi-racial kids raised on MTV who can’t even write a grammatically correct sentence and who have no work ethic at all? “Engineers” from Bangladesh and “chemists” from Uzbekistan hired for one quarter of what the company would have to pay qualified whites? What’s next? Chimpanzees and marmosets trained to pull certain levers when lights flash in exchange for a banana?