Again: Processed food = sick

And I don’t mean “sick” as in “ew, gross!”, although that’s always appropriate when talking about “food” that is mass-produced in gi-normous processing plants. In this case, processed peanut butter is ACTUALLY making people sick—via salmonella.

Saw this in the Denver Post:

ConAgra Foods Inc. told consumers to discard certain jars of Peter Pan and Great Value peanut butter after the spread was linked to a salmonella outbreak that has sickened almost 300 people nationwide. …The Great Value brand, which is also made by other companies, is a Wal-Mart brand.

First of all, this isn’t too surprising. Huge frankenfood producers seem to have this problem more often than they should. And their “peanut butter” has hardly any peanut in it; it’s all chemicals and high-fructose corn syrup and whatever other crap ingredients they throw in (real peanut butter is ground-up peanuts—nothing else). Secondly, something from Crap-mart making people sick? Surprise, surprise. You get what you pay for.