09.23.10

Eat Shit Farms, LLC: Pics of flies & shit

Posted in Bioterrorism, Stumble and Fail at 1:14 pm by George Smith

The Dickensian characters of Eat Shit Farms appeared in this short news video from the Associated Press:

Everyone is familiar with the image of the American businessman who now invokes his 5th Amendment right to protection against self-incrimination.

Then there was the Austin “Jack Decoster/Peter DeCoster team from Eat Shit Farms Wright County Egg, the business at the center of the biggest spread of foodborne salmonellosis in US history.

Their written testimony, here, is predictably self-serving.

Their business grew too fast. And it’s always been aggressively fighting Salmonella. Et cetera.

Pictures from the FDA are worth a bit, showing sides of Eat Shit Farms’ hen house broken and bulged out from piles of crap, liquid excrement seeping from various holes and cracks, and dead flies everywhere.

They’re here.

Bart Stupak, the outgoing Michigan congressman and chairman of the House Energy & Commerce committee, was the face attached to the investigation.

Stupak, an anile character known only for trying to screw up healthcare reform and living in the shady place now known as the C Street house, released as pro forma a statement of concern and rectitude as possible.

Congressman Bart Stupak was alarmed. He was on the case. There were flies and manure everywhere. It probably took a staffer all of an hour and a half to write and put into .pdf form.

That Bart Stupak was head of this congressional investigation reveals a lot about how much change is coming.

Stupak mentions other hearings he’s conducted on foodborne illness, as if he can take credit. Too bad for Bart Stupak, the same types of things continued to happen. Indicating Stupak does things for show and publicity.

Which everyone already knows, considering the Stupak amendment.

The Energy & Commerce committee released two certificates of achievement, one awarded to Wright County Egg just as salmonella was going everywhere.

For comparative purposes, it also released one awarded to the Peanut Corporation of America, given to Stewart Parnell’s company two years ago just when it was sending salmonella everywhere.

These are meant as indictments of the firms named on the certificates. As well as what it takes to get some rubber stamp for good healthy business.

They also serve as indictments of the US government and congress which, two years after Peanut Corporation of American set off a salmonellosis outbreak that killed nine, still wasn’t regulating or overseeing anything until it was too late again.

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