Contaminated Peanut Butter

Published 16 February 7 1:52 AM | William

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.

Comments

# Jeremy Brayton said on February 16, 2007 1:30 PM:

Our drama-queen ex-roomate was a veg-head. I know animal cruelty exists and all but to say a vegetarian diet is the ONLY answer is rediculous. It's the CHEAPEST answer for everyone and whatever multi-billion dollar company doesn't want to take up the fight for our food.

I see this ending one of two ways. Either someone steps in out of generosity to lobby Congress and make a change or some horrendous problem results of this widespread contamination and Congress has no choice but to act. I'd opt for the former but have a feeling the latter with it's "Kharmatic Justice" will probably be what happens.

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