Feds Shut Down Organic Peanut Processing Plant; First Case Under Food Safety Modernization ActJanet Phelan But it wasnt the terrorists which hit the Sunland peanut processing plant. According to the FDA, the plant had sloppy health practices which resulted in eleven batches over a twelve-year time span testing positive for salmonella. A recent outbreak of Salmonella Bredeney, which reportedly sickened 41 people across 20 states was linked to the peanut butter processed at the Sunland facility, states the FDA. The FDA website reports: One wonders, however, at the selectivity of the FDA in its choices of targets. For example, the pharmaceutical company Baxter last year recalled 300,000 doses of Preflucel influenza vaccine due to what it says is an excessive number of adverse events. This was not the first problem with Baxter, however. According to LifeGen.de: In their curious tendency for selective myopia, the feds keep finding ways to shut down organic enterprises, raiding food co-ops and raw milk distributors, while averting their eyes from the major corporate pharmaceutical companies. This selectivity encompasses natural medicine as well as natural foods. The passage of Obamacare resulted in a surgical removal of natural cures from its list of covered treatments. And on November 21, the FDA granted approval for yet another Baxter vaccine: http://www.fda.gov/Drugs/NewsEvents/ucm130961.html So while those in power obsess about peanuts, I have another proposition: Could our watchdog agencies shift their meticulous attention to the military/industrial/pharmaceutical complex and investigate how our medicine is being weaponized? Now, that would be a raid worthy of the size and scope of our law enforcement agencies. Janet Phelan is an investigative journalist whose articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, The San Bernardino County Sentinel, The Santa Monica Daily Press, The Long Beach Press Telegram, Oui Magazine and other regional and national publications. Janet specializes in issues pertaining to legal corruption and addresses the heated subject of adult conservatorship, revealing shocking information about the relationships between courts and shady financial consultants. She also covers issues relating to international bioweapons treaties. Her poetry has been published in Gambit, Libera, Applezaba Review, Nausea One and other magazines. Her first book, The Hitler Poems, was published in 2005. She currently resides abroad. You may browse through her articles (and poetry) at janetphelan.com 