Thursday, February 5, 2009

An interesting solution

This suggestion was in a long email rant from my normally sane, pacifist, environment-loving, marathon-running, way- too-skinny friend who wishes to remain anonymous:  

"I propose we pack up the management of PCA and give them a one way ticket to China, where the queue for the firing squad is long, but moves really fast."  

The "PCA"  he's referring to as the Peanut Corporation of America, recently-alleged disseminator of salmonella-tainted peanut products invoking thousands of product recalls.  The firing squad he's referring to is the recent death sentence judgments the Chinese handed down to those responsible for the melamine-additive food scares.

After checking the list of products currently being recalled - and throwing out about $15 dollars in protein bars alone - I'm kinda thinking my friend's got a good point.  My budget is stretched as tight as most others, but weighed against the medical cost of fighting off a salmonella infection, and hopefully winning, the money isn't worth it.  Oh, the anguish, though, as it's against every fiber in my Irish-frugal being to throw out food!

Take a minute.  Check the list.


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