Comments on: Peanut Corp’s Texas plant ran unlicensed, uninspected since 2005 http://www.southerninjurylawyer.com/news/2009/02/07/peanut-corps-texas-plant-ran-unlicensed-uninspected-since-2005/ Personal Injury and Product Liability Lawyers Tue, 09 Feb 2010 05:49:09 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Personal Injury Attorneys: Historic food safety legislation passes House | Beasley Allen http://www.southerninjurylawyer.com/news/2009/02/07/peanut-corps-texas-plant-ran-unlicensed-uninspected-since-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-351 Personal Injury Attorneys: Historic food safety legislation passes House | Beasley Allen Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:42:03 +0000 http://www.southerninjurylawyer.com/?p=543#comment-351 [...] it was possible for some plants to run unlicensed and uninspected for years. For example, the peanut processing plant in Plainview Texas, which was part of the conglomerate that caused a massive salmonella outbreak last winter, didn’t [...] [...] it was possible for some plants to run unlicensed and uninspected for years. For example, the peanut processing plant in Plainview Texas, which was part of the conglomerate that caused a massive salmonella outbreak last winter, didn’t [...]

]]> By: Personal Injury Attorneys: Salmonella: the bacteria that changed Washington? | Beasley Allen http://www.southerninjurylawyer.com/news/2009/02/07/peanut-corps-texas-plant-ran-unlicensed-uninspected-since-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-126 Personal Injury Attorneys: Salmonella: the bacteria that changed Washington? | Beasley Allen Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:28:35 +0000 http://www.southerninjurylawyer.com/?p=543#comment-126 [...] visit the factories where food is processed to make sure their operations are up to code, but as we have seen in the recent past, even those rules can be insufficient and [...] [...] visit the factories where food is processed to make sure their operations are up to code, but as we have seen in the recent past, even those rules can be insufficient and [...]

]]> By: Food Consumer http://www.southerninjurylawyer.com/news/2009/02/07/peanut-corps-texas-plant-ran-unlicensed-uninspected-since-2005/comment-page-1/#comment-62 Food Consumer Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:25:41 +0000 http://www.southerninjurylawyer.com/?p=543#comment-62 There's a lot of finger pointing going on right now over the food poisoning scandal. The people are pointing at the government; the government is pointing at the food manufacturers; the government and the food industry are pointing at non-government inspections. That's a lot of fingers pointing in a lot of different directions.<br><br>Let's talk about where the fingers aren't pointing.<br><br>The fingers aren't pointing at the people, people like you and me. Nobody's pointing at the people who went to work at this plant every day. The people who navigated through filthy, unsanitary, illegal conditions and collected a paycheck at the end of the day. Where is the personal responsibility for a job well done? Where are the whistle-blowers?<br><br>The fingers aren't pointing at us, the consumer, who bought these products. Where is the personal responsibility for the food you lay out for your family every day? When was the last time you slaughtered something personally to feed to your family? When was the last time you grew your own produce? Baked a loaf of bread? Milked your own damn cow?<br><br>When was the last time you walked into a food manufacturing facility and said, "I feed your product to my child, I'd like to see how it's made."<br><br>Step up to the plate, folks. We are all, each and every one of us, responsible for the way things are. Don't like it? Change it. Take some responsibility. There's plenty to go around. There's a lot of finger pointing going on right now over the food poisoning scandal. The people are pointing at the government; the government is pointing at the food manufacturers; the government and the food industry are pointing at non-government inspections. That's a lot of fingers pointing in a lot of different directions.

Let's talk about where the fingers aren't pointing.

The fingers aren't pointing at the people, people like you and me. Nobody's pointing at the people who went to work at this plant every day. The people who navigated through filthy, unsanitary, illegal conditions and collected a paycheck at the end of the day. Where is the personal responsibility for a job well done? Where are the whistle-blowers?

The fingers aren't pointing at us, the consumer, who bought these products. Where is the personal responsibility for the food you lay out for your family every day? When was the last time you slaughtered something personally to feed to your family? When was the last time you grew your own produce? Baked a loaf of bread? Milked your own damn cow?

When was the last time you walked into a food manufacturing facility and said, “I feed your product to my child, I'd like to see how it's made.”

Step up to the plate, folks. We are all, each and every one of us, responsible for the way things are. Don't like it? Change it. Take some responsibility. There's plenty to go around.

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