Showing posts with label food. Show all posts
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Friday, February 13, 2009

Peanut Corporation Of America Files For Bankruptcy Amid Salmonella Outbreak

Blakley, GA
The Virginia based food processing company, Peanut Corporation of America has filed for bankruptcy protection after 5 deaths have been linked to tainted peanut butter manufactured in a Blakey, Georgia peanut processing plant.

The Center for Disease Control reports that 453 people in 43 states have been infected with salmonella after eating products containing peanut from the plant. One case of infection is also reported in Canada. "Of these, 22 percent are hospitalized and five deaths have been reported that may be associated," the CDC's Dr. Robert Tauxe said.

PCA president Stewart Parnell, of Virginia, issued a statement on Friday saying, "Today, the FDA informed PCA that new product samples in unopened containers tested positive for Salmonella."

The Kellogg Company has recalled numerous products including some Keebler brand snacks manufactured with peanut butter paste from the tainted factory. The company also faces several lawsuits from those who became sick after eating the products.

In recent years another peanut plant in south Georgia was linked to a nation wide salmonella outbreak. It is believed that the problems are caused by unsanitary conditions within the plants, possibly due to the high number of illegal immigrants employed by many food processors in the state.

Wednesday, May 2, 2007

Vegan Negroes Found Guilty In Starvation Death Of 6 Week Old Infant

Atlanta, GA
The two idiot vegetarian negroes mentioned in this article were found guilty today in the starvation death of their newborn son.

A jury found Lamont Thomas, 31, and Jade Sanders, 27, guilty of malice murder, felony murder and first degree cruelty to children in relation to the death of their 6 week old son, Crown, who had been fed a diet of soy milk and apple juice and who weighed only three and a half pounds when he died of starvation. Thomas and Sanders each face automatic sentences of life in prison.

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This Buckhead newborn didn't stand a chance.

By the time he saw a doctor, the 6-week-old, born at home, was dead. Fed a diet consisting largely of soy milk and apple juice by his vegan parents, the baby boy weighed just 3 1/2 pounds.

Fulton prosecutors say it's a chilling case of murder by starvation, a painful and prolonged death. Attorneys representing parents Jade Sanders, 27, and Lamont Thomas, 31, told jurors the first-time parents did the best they could while adhering to their vegan lifestyle. Vegans typically live free of animal products.

"They're not vegans, they're baby killers," Fulton prosecutor Mike Carlson told the jury Tuesday during his closing arguments. "Think about how long they had to listen to his screams and hollers."

Thomas hung his head and appeared to nearly collapse on the defense table during closing arguments, while Sanders sat next to him listening intently. The couple's attorneys claim the parents didn't realize their baby, named Crown, was in danger until minutes before he died.

Jurors began deliberations Tuesday. Prosecutors urged jurors to convict the parents of murder, which carries an automatic life sentence in prison. Defense lawyers told jurors the death is at most a case of involuntary manslaughter, reckless conduct that results in an unintentional death, punishable by up to one year in jail.

Vegans Or Baby Killers?

Jury Returns Guilty Verdicts In Vegan Baby Death Trial

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Zionist Jews Attempt To Extort Egyptian Factory From Coca-Cola Company

New York, NY
The Zionist Organization of America, the oldest jewish terrorist lobby group in the United States, has issued a press release in an attempt to extort a Coca-Cola factory in Egypt from the Atlanta based beverage company.

The ZOA, which was founded in 1897 to propagate deviant jewish interests and promote zionist terrorism, claims the land on which the factory sits was wrongfully taken from jews in the early 1960s.

The beverage company began to show signs of weakness after repeated threats from the pro-jewish terrorist group and the zionists issued the following public extortion letter.

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April 19, 2007

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Morton A. Klein, 212-481-1500

ZOA Calls Off Protest After Coke Agrees To Public Questioning And Negotiation


New York — The efforts of the Zionist Organization of America (ZOA) have triggered important new developments in the case of the Bigio family against the Coca-Cola Company. The Bigios -- a Jewish family that lived in Egypt and owned land and factories there since the early 1900's -- had their property forcibly stolen from them by the Egyptian government in 1962, in a campaign of anti-Semitism that caused almost one million Jews in Arab/Islamic countries to lose their homes, property and livelihoods. Since 1994, Coca-Cola has been using and occupying the Bigios' property, knowing full well of the immoral and anti-Semitic manner in which the property had been taken from them over 30 years before. The Bigios repeatedly appealed to Coke to compensate them for the company's use of their property. When the company refused, and when the Bigios' repeated efforts to obtain justice in Egypt proved futile, the family sued Coca-Cola in a New York federal court. The lawsuit has been pending for 10 years, the merits of the Bigios' claims still not having been reached because of Coca-Cola's legal maneuverings.

Learning of the Bigios' plight, the ZOA took action. Susan Tuchman, the Director of the ZOA's Center for Law and Justice, filed an amicus curiae ("friend of the court") brief on behalf of the Bigio family in its lawsuit against Coca-Cola. The ZOA also publicly called for a boycott of Coca-Cola products until Coca-Cola reached a fair settlement with the Bigios. And, the ZOA planned a public demonstration at the annual meeting of Coke shareholders, which was scheduled for Wednesday, April 18, 2007, in Wilmington, Delaware. A sizeable number of protestors planned to demonstrate at the meeting to protest the company's actions toward the Bigios.

The day before the shareholders' meeting, two senior Coca-Cola officials contacted ZOA National President Morton A. Klein, to see what could be done to call off the protest. Coca-Cola agreed to permit Leonard Getz, a Coca-Cola shareholder and the ZOA's national vice president, to ask a question about Coca-Cola's treatment of the Bigios at the meeting. Mr. Getz had been so concerned about Coca-Cola's treatment of the Bigios that in December 2006, he submitted a shareholder proposal to Coke that he requested be included in the Company's proxy materials for the annual meeting. The proposal sought for Coca-Cola to "compensate the Bigio family fully and fairly for their loss, to correct the terrible injustice that this family has suffered." Although noting that the shareholder proposal satisfied all procedural requirements, Coca-Cola had nevertheless decided to exclude the proposal from its proxy materials, thus keeping the company's conduct toward the Bigios from being brought to shareholders' attention at the annual meeting. With the threat of a ZOA demonstration outside the shareholders' meeting, Coca-Cola promised that the ZOA's Getz would be permitted to ask a question about the Bigios' case at the meeting.

In addition, Coca-Cola agreed that within 48 hours, Coca-Cola senior officials would contact the Bigios' lead attorney -- renowned Washington, D.C. litigator Nathan Lewin -- to discuss the possibility of a fair and reasonable settlement with the Bigios. Until this agreement was reached on Tuesday, Coca-Cola had made no such overtures and has never offered the Bigios anything.

Coca-Cola fulfilled both commitments. With Morton Klein at his side, Leonard Getz raised the plight of the Bigios at the shareholders' meeting on Wednesday, April 18th at the Wilmington's Hotel du Pont. Mr. Getz asked the following question at the meeting, which was led by Coca-Cola's Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, E. Neville Isdell:

Mr. Isdell, Coca Cola proudly labels itself as a concerned citizen of the world, and is guided by its own Code of Conduct, which emphasizes that the company must act in every instance with honesty, integrity, accountability and respect and never to engage in behavior that harms its reputation. "If you wouldn't want to read about it in the newspaper -- don't do it" -- such says your Code of Conduct. Yet for fourteen years, Coke has taken a path contrary to its own principles by knowingly occupying and financially benefiting from expropriated property -- that is, stolen property, taken from the Egyptian Jewish family of Raphael Bigio during an Egyptian Arab anti-Semitic campaign that took place in Egypt over 40 years ago, just about the time you started with Coca-Cola. Coke did business with the Bigio family since the 1930's. Coke knew and knows that the property belonged to the Bigios.

So why has Coke helped legitimize this theft? And why has Coke ignored the Bigios' rightful claim to be fairly compensated by Coca Cola for using the Bigio family's factory and land, even after a federal district court ruled that this case can be heard in a U.S. court? As a shareholder, as a fellow concerned citizen of the world, I would like to know how Coke plans to fairly compensate Raphael Bigio for the loss of his family's property on which Coca Cola is currently trespassing. Thank you.

Coca-Cola's Neville Isdell responded that since the company does not own the property that belonged to the Bigios (which had not been the ZOA's claim; Coke has been leasing the property from a government-owned entity, though knowing that the property had been stolen from the Bigios by the Egyptian government), this "really has to be a dispute between the property owner and the claimant" (i.e., the Bigio family). According to Mr. Isdell, "if there was anything more that we thought we would be able to do, we certainly would do it."

The day after the meeting, Coca-Cola officials held discussions as promised with the Bigios' attorney, Nathan Lewin. Additional discussions are expected.

ZOA National President Morton A. Klein applauded these recent developments, and expressed his hope for a just settlement of the Bigios' claims, without further delay, so that this tragic case could finally be brought to a close. "We were heartened by Coca-Cola's decision to permit Len Getz to bring the Bigios' plight to the attention of shareholders at the annual meeting. And we are pleased that we were able to get Coca-Cola officials to finally communicate with the Bigios' attorney about the family's dispute with Coke. We've never claimed that Coca-Cola perpetrated the campaign of anti-Semitism that the Bigios were subjected to in Egypt, and that close to one million other Jews suffered in the Arab and Islamic countries in which they lived. We've also never claimed that Coca-Cola owns the property that belonged to the Bigios. But there's no doubt that Coke has been participating in and benefiting from Egypt's anti-Semitism campaign, by occupying and using property that the company knows full well was stolen from the Bigios by the Egyptian government for one reason only: the Bigios were Jews. Coca-Cola can easily right this shameful wrong, by reaching a fair settlement with the Bigio family as soon as possible.

"We were pleased that a large number of Coke board members attended the shareholders' meeting -- including Sam Nunn, the former U.S. Senator from Georgia, and Peter Ueberroth, the former Commissioner of Baseball -- who have now learned about the Bigios' longstanding problems with Coca-Cola. We hope that they will take action to resolve this tragic situation, quickly and fairly."

Original Zionist Press Release here:

ZOA Spurs Coca-Cola To Address Plight Of Jews Whose Property Was Stolen By Egypt

Tuesday, March 20, 2007

Soft Drink Giant Pushes Semitic Agenda

Atlanta, GA
Coca Cola is reverting back to the use of real sugar in the United States rather than the corn syrup they have used from twenty some odd years. The Atlanta based soft drink company changed their original formula in the 1980s, when they stop using sugar and instead began using high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener in the popular soft drink. New Coke was a flop with consumers, so the company soon canned that idea and introduced Coca Cola Classic, claiming it to be the original formula despite the presence of high fructose corn syrup rather than sugar.

Coca Cola products from Mexico, where sugar is still used, are available in many local areas due to the increased volume of both legal and illegal immigrants in the state. There is a noticeable difference in the taste of those soft drinks as opposed to the products manufactured in the US. The products made using sugar taste more like the Real Thing than their corn syrup based counterparts. Unfortunately, the bottles used in Mexico bottling plants have a very high lead content and drinking these Mexican imports is not advisable.

The reason for this recent change back to sugar for the Coca Cola Company is not based on taste, but rather on semitic folklore. The new yellow capped bottles of "kosher" Coke are being produced for Passover, to meet the restrictions of jewish law.

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NEW YORK, March 19 U.S. fans of old-fashioned Coca-Cola are snapping up cans and bottles of kosher Coca-Cola, made with pure sugar instead of high-fructose corn syrup.

Coca-Cola made the switch from sugar to high-fructose corn syrup in regular Coca-Cola in the 1980s, the New York Post reported.

Food blogger Jason Perlow, founder of offthebroiler.com, told the Post he got "thousands of hits" when he posted an alert last week that the kosher Coke had started appearing in New York stores. During Passover, Jews cannot consume wheat, oats, barley, rye and spelt that have come in contact with moisture for more than 18 minutes. Many Jews also avoid rice, lentils, beans and corn.

Coca-Cola's Passover products have a yellow cap on the 2-liter bottles marked with an O circling a U next to a P and the words "kosher for Passover" in Hebrew.


Controlled Media article here:
Kosher Coca-Cola Gaining Popularity

Friday, March 9, 2007

Peanut Butter Recall Expands

Sylvester, GA
The recent salmonella outbreak, which was traced to a ConAgra Foods plant in the town of Sylvester in an illegal immigrant infested region of south Georgia, has been expanded to include brands other than Peter Pan and Walmart's Great Value peanut butter. Salmonella has also been found in some dessert and ice cream toppings.

The salmonella germ is a group of bacteria that pass from the feces of people or animals to other people or other animals and can cause diarrheal illness in humans. Salmonella bacteria have been known to cause illness for more than 100 years.

To date, nearly 400 people have contracted salmonella from products manufactured at the south Georgia plant. Last week the FDA announced that they had found salmonella to be present in the plant, but declined to indicate the source. The plant remains closed.

These product are now thought to also be contaminated:

- Sonic Brand Ready-To-Use Peanut Butter Topping (6 lb., 10.5 oz. cans) used to make the peanut butter regular and fudge shakes and the peanut butter regular and fudge sundaes. Sonic discontinued use of this topping on February 16 when the recall began.

- Carvel Peanut Butter Topping (6 lb., 10 oz. cans) used in the following various Carvel ice cream products: Chocolate Peanut Butter, Peanut Butter Treasure, Peanut Butter & Jelly, Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Sundae Dasher, and other customized products containing the peanut butter toppings and flavors for ice cream within the cakes used by Carvel. These toppings and flavorings or products were discontinued by Carvel on February 16 when the recall began.

- J. Hungerford Smith Peanut Butter Dessert Topping (6 lb., 10 oz. cans). Although this product is not available for direct public purchase, retailers and restaurants across the U.S. may have used this topping in or on their food products.

Controlled media articles related to this story:

FDA Update On Peanut Butter Recall

Georgia Couple Suing ConAgra Over Tainted Peanut Butter

Peanut Butter Sickens Wilmington Woman

Peanut Butter Recall Shuts Down Perrysburg Confectioners Work

One Case Of Peanut Butter Salmonella In Louisianna


Tuesday, February 20, 2007

Georgia's Illegal Immigrants Responsible For Salmonella Outbreak?

Sylvester, GA
A nationwide outbreak of salmonella has been traced to jars of Peter Pan and Wal-mart "Great Value" brands of peanut butter manufactured at a ConAgra Foods processing plant in an illegal immigrant infested region of south Georgia.

The Center For Disease Control announced last week that between August 2006 and January 2007 almost 300 people in 39 states, including Georgia had contracted the disease. The CDC released a report which can be viewed here.

ConAgra Foods has recalled all containers of this peanut butter with product codes beginning with the numbers 2111, which indicate the product's origin at a food processing plant in the south Georgia town of Sylvester. ConAgra said today that the recall will cost them $50-60 million.

Neither the CDC nor ConAgra Foods have confirmed any source for the contamination of the products at the Sylvester, Ga plant. The plant has been closed until the source of the contamination is determined.

ConAgra, like many other large corporations, participates in a diversity program which can be viewed here. These government sanctioned programs allow companies to openly discriminate against more qualified personnel in favor of less qualified individuals based on that individual's race, religion, national origin, etc. Many of these companies also utilize illegal immigrants as a key element in their labor force as part of their celebration of diversity.

Hiring of illegal aliens in this region of Georgia is an immense and steadily increasing problem. The illegals work for very low wages, saving the corporations big money on payroll. American citizens (i.e. people who pay taxes) can't afford to work for what the immigrants will work for. This means Americans are out of jobs when companies are hiring illegals.

Aside from there being no jobs for Americans when companies employee illegals, there is also a downside that many of the companies may not consider when they employee undocumented workers. A recent government sweep of illegal immigrants in another south Georgia town devastated a poultry processing plant after a large percentage of the company's employees were arrested.

The Crider Poultry plant in Stillmore, Ga was forced to raise wages at least twice in an effort to attract new employees after over one hundred undocumented workers who had previously staffed the plant were deported. Even after raising wages the second time, the Crider plant still was not able to maintain sufficient labor for daily operations and may be forced to close and transfer operations to another plant in Alabama, which means fewer jobs in Georgia.

ConAgra Foods manufactures various food products sold under many national brands including Peter Pan, Reddi-Whip, Chef Boyardee, Banquet, Healthy Choice, Kids Cuisine, Hunt's, Orville Redenbacher's and Hebrew National.