Nuts to You

It appears that the salmonella outbreak can be traced to one processing plant: the Peanut Corp. of America in Blakely, GA.

The infractions in the processing plant go back for at least two years. A shipment was returned in September 2008 by a Canadian company because it included, "filthy, putrid or decomposed substance, or is otherwise unfit for food."

And yet nothing was done until salmonella was finally traced back to the Georgia plant.

The Georgia Department of Agriculture wasn't keeping close enough tabs on the goings on in the filthy plant that had a leaky roof, hot and cold running roaches and a chemist's plethora of mold, and apparently neither was the FDA.

In any event, listen up, Mr. Peanut! If you want to keep jobs in the US, grow a conscience and stop killing people with your contaminated nuts!