Should this company be held accountable for murder?
With all the recent news surrounding these unfortunate events and with the recent filing of bankruptcy by the company responsible for this recent "Peanut Butter" outbreak, shouldn't this company b...
With all the recent news surrounding these unfortunate events and with the recent filing of bankruptcy by the company responsible for this recent "Peanut Butter" outbreak, shouldn't this company be held responsible for the death of innocent people that they knowingly killed. This is disgusting, outrageous and can not be dismissed by any reasonable society. What are your thoughts?
(CNN) February 14th 2009 -- The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak, Peanut Corp. of America, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in court Friday in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Peanut Corp. of America plants in Georgia and Texas came under scrutiny after the salmonella outbreak.
The documents were filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Western District of Virginia.
The bankruptcy papers were signed by Stewart Parnell, the president of Peanut Corp., who invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions this week in a congressional hearing.
Bacteria found in the company's Blakely, Georgia, peanut processing plant have been blamed for more than 600 cases of salmonella, including nine deaths.
The Texas Health Department on Thursday ordered products from the company's plant in Plainview, Texas, to be recalled after discovering dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers in the plant.
A call to the company's telephone number, which was working earlier this week, elicited a recording that said it was no longer in service.
"The long and the short of it is that we kicked the tires on reorganizing the company, and, frankly, they're just in a position now where they can't even conduct business," said Andrew S. Goldstein, a lawyer for the company. "They can't operate at all, and this just seemed like the inevitable course."
In a written statement, Consumers Union said Friday's declaration shows that Congress needs to strengthen the Food and Drug Administration and hike the penalties it can impose.
"It is unacceptable for corporations to put consumers' health at risk and then simply declare bankruptcy and go out of business when they get caught," said Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports.
"PCA's declaration of bankruptcy will, among other things, shield it from liability suits filed by consumers who became sick or whose loved ones died as a result of eating PCA's peanut products," she said. (more)
(CNN) February 14th 2009 -- The peanut processing company at the heart of a national salmonella outbreak, Peanut Corp. of America, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy liquidation in court Friday in Lynchburg, Virginia.
Peanut Corp. of America plants in Georgia and Texas came under scrutiny after the salmonella outbreak.
The documents were filed in U.S. Bankruptcy Court in the Western District of Virginia.
The bankruptcy papers were signed by Stewart Parnell, the president of Peanut Corp., who invoked his Fifth Amendment rights against self-incrimination in refusing to answer questions this week in a congressional hearing.
Bacteria found in the company's Blakely, Georgia, peanut processing plant have been blamed for more than 600 cases of salmonella, including nine deaths.
The Texas Health Department on Thursday ordered products from the company's plant in Plainview, Texas, to be recalled after discovering dead rodents, rodent excrement and bird feathers in the plant.
A call to the company's telephone number, which was working earlier this week, elicited a recording that said it was no longer in service.
"The long and the short of it is that we kicked the tires on reorganizing the company, and, frankly, they're just in a position now where they can't even conduct business," said Andrew S. Goldstein, a lawyer for the company. "They can't operate at all, and this just seemed like the inevitable course."
In a written statement, Consumers Union said Friday's declaration shows that Congress needs to strengthen the Food and Drug Administration and hike the penalties it can impose.
"It is unacceptable for corporations to put consumers' health at risk and then simply declare bankruptcy and go out of business when they get caught," said Jean Halloran, director of food policy initiatives at Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports.
"PCA's declaration of bankruptcy will, among other things, shield it from liability suits filed by consumers who became sick or whose loved ones died as a result of eating PCA's peanut products," she said. (more)
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Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
What a filthy operaing plant that company has had for years! The employees would report salmonella in the product and were told to push it out on the market anyway. So they knowingly allowed the contaminated food to be consumed by the public, and had to know that people would become ill and possibly die. So normally I wouldn't think of it as murder but the CEO knew.
Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
Totally heartless.......Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
They need to take responsibility for their actions!Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
Most definitely. And during their hopefully lengthy stint in prison, they should be fed peanut butter sandwiches and water. The bastards!None of the above
In principle, yes. However, how does one put a "juridical person" (fancy name for corporation) in prison?This underscores what I have espoused for a long time, which is that the juridical person farce has gone too far. END CORPORATE PERSON-HOOD. The whole idea is nothing but a big scam to start with.
Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
It's time that people pay for choosing to sell products that can make people sick.Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
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and the hospitals did not even try to test many people my two kids were sick with all the same symptoms this christmass and not once did the er try to figure out what it was "oh its probably viral"Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
YES, 100% its not like one employee forgot to wash his hands and got people sick, this has been going on forever. Also on a side note, i want to know how they got away from the health department for so long.... at my place of work they are required to come almost twice a year.... that is another question i have.Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
They should get the same treatment as those in China who knowingly sold tainted baby formula.Undecided
moderated...Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
..but money talks,so i doubt anything will happen!Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
They should be placed in jail until trial and be tried for first degree murder.Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
What was the owner thinking?!Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
If they knew about these problems and didn,t correct them, then yes they should be criminally and civilly liable.Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
I live just 25 miles away and all of us are pissed. A few of us sat across the road and watched the FBI . its not a joke to us at all we can buy from the mills our self and the workers at times will take home peanut to boil. it's our family and friend they have put on the line.If you look at the map i live in Seminole county this happened in early countyYes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
I think this is so sad that innocent people died because of scum bags like this, and YES they ALL NEED TO BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE, tried and convicted no less than a serial killer.Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
Thats so mean and selfsh im mean my nieghbor Kim her son just died cause of that .she is locking her self up because of that.HOW!! could people do that?Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
I was listening to this on CSPAN the other day....this company should be held responsible..there were so many areas that a "so-called" inspection should have included and didn't. I understand that they "self inspected"...so much for trusting these companies to do legitimately do their own inspections...it's pathetic!!Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
It's extremely disgusting Ben, but in this 'modern' world of unscrupulous big business money making, it does not surprise me too much, after all, look what the Nazi Bayer company sold to the world: "... it was discovered that Bayer found out a vaccine it was selling in the United States was accidentally contaminated with HIV.In order to cover its tracks, say the journalists in this video... Bayer pulled the vaccines off the market and sold them to consumers in Japan, France, Spain and other countries, where hemophiliacs were then contaminated with HIV due to the vaccine.
Watch the video yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?... They have a long and dark history of being involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. As stated on CorporateWatch.org (http://archive.corporatewatc...
'IG Farben continued to grow during the inter-war period as one of the most powerful chemical and pharmaceutical companies in the world. Products included polyurethanes and the first 'sulpha' drugs. It is during Nazi-era Germany and WW2 that IG Farben (Bayer) entered its most sinister phase. IG Farben as the leading chemical company in Nazi Germany took over chemical plants across Nazi occupied Europe, used slave-labour in their factories (including operating their own concentration camp), condu... It's extremely disgusting Ben, but in this 'modern' world of unscrupulous big business money making, it does not surprise me too much, after all, look what the Nazi Bayer company sold to the world: "... it was discovered that Bayer found out a vaccine it was selling in the United States was accidentally contaminated with HIV.
In order to cover its tracks, say the journalists in this video... Bayer pulled the vaccines off the market and sold them to consumers in Japan, France, Spain and other countries, where hemophiliacs were then contaminated with HIV due to the vaccine.
Watch the video yourself
http://www.youtube.com/watch?... They have a long and dark history of being involved in the manufacture of chemical weapons. As stated on CorporateWatch.org (http://archive.corporatewatc...
'IG Farben continued to grow during the inter-war period as one of the most powerful chemical and pharmaceutical companies in the world. Products included polyurethanes and the first 'sulpha' drugs. It is during Nazi-era Germany and WW2 that IG Farben (Bayer) entered its most sinister phase. IG Farben as the leading chemical company in Nazi Germany took over chemical plants across Nazi occupied Europe, used slave-labour in their factories (including operating their own concentration camp), conducted medical experiments on those held in the concentration camps and manufactured the poison gas used to kill thousands. At the end of the war the 1945 Potsdam Agreement called for the break up of IG Farben into its constituent companies. Twelve IG Farben employees and directors were jailed for war crimes at the Nuremburg Trials.'
Anybody who takes anything made by Bayer is, in my opinion, supporting a corporation that has been committing crimes against humanity for nearly a hundred years."
This is only one of many thousands of shocking, evil crimes committed by big business, and our governments couldn't care less. Depopulation and the maiming of citizens is far more important in this Satanic world!! (more)
Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
'Nuff said.Undecided
I don't know much about this, but if they can provide proof that the upper management of the company knew about the contaminated products and still gave the okay to put them on the shelves...then I say yes, hold them responsible for murder or gross negligence.None of the above
It seems that they took a chance in allowing poor management and and an unsanitary work space. I believe they should be held accountable and that shouldn't be permitted to file chap 11 so soon after this disaster. It's like the phone scam people who pick up and move to another state or town and continue the fraud. Because this brand of peanut butter was sold to nursing homes and schools I think it makes it all the more despicable. The FDA hasn't nearly enough inspectors and I am sure that facilitates companies like this to take advantage. That however is no excuse. How sad that companies put all our lives on the line so they can line their pockets. My guess is all the top execs have a nice going out of business package bonus. Crooks like these as well as the Haliburton guys and enron guys etc. need to be held accountable for their abuses. It really burns my a$$ that no one seems to be able to take responsibility for their actions. A sad state of affairs.Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
moderated...None of the above
The corporate executives should be held accountable for voluntary manslaughter (depraved indifference) for the dozen, or so, deaths that they have caused. Companies should not be equal to people. Strip the "personhood" inherent in the law from corporate entities and drag the execs out from behind the corporate shield to be held accountable for their decisions and actions.Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
What a filthy operaing plant that company has had for years! The employees would report salmonella in the product and were told to push it out on the market anyway. So they knowingly allowed the contaminated food to be consumed by the public, and had to know that people would become ill and possibly die. So normally I wouldn't think of it as murder but the CEO knew.Undecided
The 'sticky' issue is WHOM to hold responsible in the company -- and given that it already has filed bankruptcy proceedings, doubt that there will be anything (or anyone) left at all in the next couple of months.This is by no means "ETHICAL" conduct of business. I am waiting to hear/read more (from the Health Inspections), but given what I am reading -- there has been quite the breakdown here in many ways.
Yes, they knowingly killed innocent people for greed!!
Death by squirrels...