Contaminated Peanut Butter
So if you haven't heard there was a recall of Peter Pan peanut butter. I'm reading it and notice that just last night, I bought some and yet, it was Peter Pan. The recall notice was for jars who had a number beginning with 2111 on the lid. Sure enough, mine did to. Anyway, I ate some last night and had another 'dose' right before I read this article.
It looks like I'll never be eating Peanut butter again, but it's not b/c of Salmonella:
"While rodents and birds commonly get into peanut storage bins, germs are killed when raw peanuts are roasted. When making peanut butter, the nuts are again heated — above the salmonella-killing temperature of 165 degrees — as they are ground into a paste and mixed with other ingredients before being squirted into jars and quickly sealed."
I know, I know, this is probably mild in comparison to other gross stuff that happens, but once you *know* about it, it's hard to get it out of your mind. So much so that I'm probably going to go out and search for other similar disgusting things tonight. If I knew how gross most of the stuff I eat is, I'd probably be lean and mean which would be a good thing. That damn Meet Your Meat video was so appaling it's hard to eat any meat anymore. Not b/c I'm a hippy or anything like that, just felt so bad for the animals and it kinda pissed me off. I guess that's what it's supposed to do though. Now that I've went off on a tangent, I guess it's been long enough that I'd be barfing and stuff if I had the contaminated stuff so I need to go do something productive.