11.10.10

Eat Shit Farms gets FDA warning letter as it ships more poisoned eggs

Posted in Bioterrorism at 9:52 am by George Smith

Business motto: More good shit from Eat Shit Farms!

Reinforcing the reality that the US government will do virtually nothing to get corporate predators off the streets, today the news on Eat Shit Farms is that the FDA sent it a warning letter Friday. For Austin “Jack” DeCoster’s provoking of the biggest salmonella-tainted egg recall in history earlier this year. While news was just breaking that one of his shell companies was involved in a hot and fresh case of salmonella distribution calling for a recall of a quarter million eggs.

An organic food blog has the most pungent thing to say:

Remember Galt, IA-based Wright County Egg—the key factory farm involved in August’s recall of 500,000 eggs after a multistate salmonella outbreak? The company whose owner, Austin “Jack??? DeCoster, was called a corporate criminal by former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich?

[FDA] Kansas City District Director John W. Thorsky has sent DeCoster a warning letter that requires “prompt and aggressive actions??? to correct a host of unresolved problems. If DeCoster fails to comply, the FDA can enjoin his company from selling eggs or seize the foul farm.

Seize the foul farm. Hah. Well we should hope so.

“How many times has [DeCoster]been allowed to pay his way out of corporate negligence?” the blogger asks.

At GlobalSecurity.Org, DD mirrored yesterday’s post on Eat Shit Farms with comment on the UPS/Fed-Ex shipped toner cartridge bomb plot from Yemen.

It’s here.

There’s an obvious reason for bundling the two together.

This country’s national security apparatus gets its panties in a twist over failed air freight bombs from a marginal country where the spigot could have been turned off a long time ago.

And Predator missions are surely slated.

But do anything about the guy who does business in such a way that he knows his eggs stand to be tainted and that it’s just part of the overhead? And who gives salmonellosis to thousands?

The fellow is an agribusiness terrorist. So we’ll sic mighty Bart Stupak on him and then send a slightly threatening letter.

And that’s the latest news from the great failed society with huge numbers of sitting around people.

2 Comments

  1. Dork Nozzle said,

    November 13, 2010 at 8:59 pm

    Great content and I appreciate the last sentence placing the preposition “around” before the end of the sentence. Glad to know that you are not a grammar terrorist. It makes the entire article worth reading.

  2. George Smith said,

    November 14, 2010 at 7:27 am

    I stole the idea from the Tom “China-American Chamber of Commerce” Friedman.