Nuts To You

So, it turns out it's not just salmonella in peanut butter in the last couple of weeks, but dead mice and rats, bird feathers, and animal droppings in peanut butter in the last four years.

The Texas Department of State Health Services on Thursday ordered the recall of all products ever shipped from the Peanut Corporation of America's plant in Plainview, Texas, after discovering dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers in the plant.

The order, which applies to products shipped since the plant opened nearly four years ago, came a day after the discovery of filth in a crawl space above a production area during a health services inspection, the department said in a news release.

Inspectors also reported that the plant's ventilation system was pulling debris "from the infested crawl space into production areas of the plant resulting in the adulteration of exposed food products," the release said.

The Bushies reduced the FDA budget time and time again. They made it impossible to effectively do the job of protecting the nation's food and drugs, and then blamed the agency for failing to do its job, with critics saying the failures were then proof agency was useless and that food and drug companies could police themselves. Sound familiar?

It's the same playbook the Bushies used to take apart banking regulation, environmental regulation, work safety regulation, and the list goes on and on.

So much work has to be done.