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Mummy, theres a terrorist in my peanut butter...
Mmm, peanut butter, how sweet and innocent it is and a staple of good old fashioned fatties American diets everywhere.
| quote: | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - All Peter Pan peanut butter bought since May 2006 should be discarded, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said on Friday in a statement broadening its warning about salmonella-contaminated peanut butter.
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. |
It happens ever now and then, bugs get in and make people sick, especially in the lovely processed meats department, but that's hardly surprising considering how and what they make it with.
Yes, peanut butter can kill too.
| quote: | | Every year, approximately 40,000 cases of salmonellosis are reported in the United States and about 600 people die of it, according to the CDC. |
Which is about a 1/100th or so which get nailed by disgruntled co-workers, kids wearing black clothes and hunting accidental homicides with firearms annually. But its a fun fact you can stick in the back of your brain for later reference and quote at dinner parties, you'll look smarter! 
Now, can we get one news story without a reference to terrorism in any shape or form, not matter how wildly unrelated it may be?
Lets ask a local village idiot politician what they think?
| quote: | | If we cannot protect the nation's supply of peanut butter, one must ask how prepared we are for a terrorist attack on our nation's food supply," Michigan Democratic Rep. Bart Stupak said on Friday. |
Course not... they're everywhere! In your backyard, your neighbours, the strip mall, in the pub and now we know... they're even in your Peanut Butter! 
Hahah! 
yeah alright I can't spell...
Last edited by Lilith on Feb-18-2007 at 16:23
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