Peanut Exec Who Intentionally Sold Salmonella-Tainted Peanuts Recommended for Life In Prison

yahoo.com ^ | July 24, 2015 | Korin Miller

[DannyTN]

If salmonella peanuts are outlawed, only outlaws will have salmonella peanuts...

Fixed it.

[grey_whiskers]

Found a peanut,
found a peanut,
found a peanut just now...

Hang the bastard.

[IYAS9YAS]

During the trial, federal prosecutors presented more than 1,000 documents, including a March 2007 email from Stewart Parnell to a plant manager about the tainted peanut butter. “Just ship it,” he wrote in the message.

And the plant manager's sentence?

[Ethan Clive Osgoode]

People will do absolutely anything for a buck. Sell baby parts, sell contaminated food, sell chemo treatments to patients that don’t have cancer... even sell their own grandma’s body to dog-food processing plant. Greed and avarice are much bigger problems in society than we like to admit.

[trebb]

so did he sell peanuts that were KNOWN to have salmonella contamination?

or did he just sell peanuts that they knew had not been roasted to a high enough temperature to ensure that any possible salmonella contamination would be neutralized?

because these are not the same things.

Tell that to the people who died and who left families behind....

They may be technically different things, but when you knowingly put the public at risk by distributing a product that may be hazardous/fatal, despite having the means to quality test that product to ensure its safety, you have committed murder regardless of the nuances one can spin.