Papas Fritas writes:
The Christian Science Monitor reports that Costco will dump almost one million jars of peanut butter into a New Mexico landfill and bulldoze over them after retailer Costco refused to take shipment of the peanut butter and declined requests to let it be donated to food banks or repackaged or sold to brokers who provide food to institutions like prisons. The peanut butter comes from a bankrupt peanut-processing plant that was at the heart of a salmonella outbreak in 2012 and although "all parties agreed there's nothing wrong with the peanut butter from a health and safety issue," court records show that on a 19 March conference call Costco said "it would not agree to any disposition ... other than destruction."
Despite the peanut butter being safe, Curry County landfill employee Tim Stacy says that no one will be able to consume the peanut butter once it's dumped because it was immediately rolled over with a bulldozer, destroying the supply. Stacy added more trash will then be dumped on top of the pile. Sonya Warwick, spokeswoman for New Mexico's largest food bank, declined to comment directly on the situation, but she noted that rescued food accounted for 74% of what Roadrunner Food Bank distributed across New Mexico last year. "Access to rescued food allows us to provide a more well-rounded and balanced meal to New Mexicans experiencing hunger." No word yet on where anyone was going to find a million jars of jelly.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Monday March 31 2014, @05:52PM
if you can't open a peanut bag in a plane without some going into shock, what's the result of spreading it around, burying it, or composting it, or biodieseling it?
I don't know how the "bad stuff" disseminates in each of these cases.
I can already see a B-series movie about a toxic peanut butter cloud (or monster) coming out of that dump.
(Score: 3, Funny) by emg on Monday March 31 2014, @06:57PM
"I can already see a B-series movie about a toxic peanut butter cloud (or monster) coming out of that dump."
It's on the SyFy channel this weekend, isn't it?