Who Should Be Eating Contaminated Peanut Butter?
The scuttlebutt today is centered on the large membership shopping store Costco Wholesale, which will be dumping nearly a million jars of peanut butter in to a New Mexico landfill.
The reason for such extreme measures is the food comes from a bankrupt peanut-processing plant that was at ground zero of a salmonella outbreak in 2012. Costco Wholesale refused to receive shipment of the Sunland Inc. product and declined requests for it to be donated to food banks or sold to food supply institutions for prisons.
So people are outraged and pointing fingers at Costco who has a proud reputation for how they treat employees. So I'm pondering if it's better to pay $60K to dump the peanut butter and cover it with dirt or allow it to make any number of people sick, if it is in fact contaminated with salmonella. Feeding prisoners the contaminated food might be a deserving punishment, but not food banks!
My concerns are:
1. If the peanut butter is dumped without being removed from the plastic jars, it may be discovered by a fleet of passing UFO's long after humans have vanished from the earth and will perhaps be recorded as the prime factor in the demise of human civilization.
2. How in the name of reason did such a large salmonella contamination occur with Sunland Inc?
3. It sure is a shame that entities like Sunland can file bankruptcy and escape any future obligation.
4. If Costco allowed the peanut butter to be consumed and people got sick, guess who would be liable!
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