The Peanut Butter Recall Expands

Go Local Organic (4.00 / 3)

I love the assumption that all peanut butter is bad when an outbreak occurs in Insane Foodland (America). And by "love," of course, I mean, despise.

After all, small nutbutter producers by definition can't deal with goliaths like the Peanut Corporation of America, where the salmonella outbreak is presumed to have begun.

East Wind Nut Butters, for example. They're available in most co-ops nationwide. Look for that or anything with a local address (beware of the phrase "distributed by" ; that's not necessarily telling you waht you want to know).

Local AND organic is the trump card in national, foorborne outbreaks. Organic certification means you can trace the product back to the processing plant to the original nut farmer through the chain of organic certificates. That way you can be sure if what you're eating came from a different source than the source of the Outbreak du Jour.

We won't throw the first punch, but...okay, maybe we'll throw the first punch.

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by: El Dragón @ Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 20:12:05 PM UTC

I have always thought that the American electoral process is way (4.00 / 3)

too lenghty. In France it takes a few weeks of campaigning, one or two rounds to elect (if no clear majority), and the new leader takes charge within 2 weeks, end of story.

Obama - can you guys speed up this inauguration thing?

Sic Transit Gloria Locavore!

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by: Asinus Asinum Fricat @ Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 20:54:47 PM UTC

Well, it's a huge step up from how... (4.00 / 1)

we used to do elections -

On the morning of November 2, 1859-Election Day-George Kyle, a merchant with the Baltimore firm of Dinsmore & Kyle, left his house with a bundle of ballots tucked under his arm. Kyle was a Democrat. As he neared the polls in the city's Fifteenth Ward, which was heavily dominated by the American Party, a ruffian tried to snatch his ballots. Kyle dodged and wheeled, and heard a cry: his brother, just behind him, had been struck. Next, someone clobbered Kyle, who drew a knife, but didn't have a chance to use it. "I felt a pistol put to my head," he said.

Grazed by a bullet, he fell. When he rose, he drew his own pistol, hidden in his pocket. He spied his brother lying in the street. Someone else fired a shot, hitting Kyle in the arm. A man carrying a musket rushed at him. Another threw a brick, knocking him off his feet. George Kyle picked himself up and ran. He never did cast his vote. Nor did his brother, who died of his wounds. The Democratic candidate for Congress, William Harrison, lost to the American Party's Henry Winter Davis. Three months later, when the House of Representatives convened hearings into the election, whose result Harrison contested, Davis's victory was upheld on the ground that any "man of ordinary courage" could have made his way to the polls.

!!!

I'd just like to say I love Oregon's Vote-By-Mail system!  At least I can be pretty certain nobody's going to rush at me with a musket!

"The essence of the independent mind lies not in what it thinks, but in how it thinks." - Christopher Hitchens

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by: JayinPortland @ Tue Jan 20, 2009 at 01:01:30 AM UTC

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Add this as well: (4.00 / 3)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE -- GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan -- January 19, 2009 -- Meijer initiated a voluntary recall of two types of its Meijer Brand crackers and two types of Meijer Brand ice cream sold in all of its stores and gas stations in Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois and Kentucky. Meijer removed all identified products from its stores and gas stations.

All sell-by dates are impacted by this recall. Specifically, Meijer has recalled the following items:

   * Meijer Cheese and Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers, UPC #0-41250-56235
   * Meijer Toasty Peanut Butter Sandwich Crackers, UPC #0-41250-56239
   * Meijer Peanut Butter and Jelly Ice Cream, UPC #00000007-19283-96635-3
   * Meijer Peanut Butter Cup Ice Cream, UPC #00000007-19283-96843-2

Sic Transit Gloria Locavore!

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by: Asinus Asinum Fricat @ Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 20:58:34 PM UTC

thx (4.00 / 2)

added.

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Mon Jan 19, 2009 at 21:57:22 PM UTC

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