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DEL.ICIO.USFarmers push peanuts at the Capitol
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Peanut farmer Ken Hardy of Hawkinsville has seen his boiled peanut sales drop 30 percent in the last three weeks. The nationwide salmonella outbreak linked to one Georgia peanut processing plant has sent negative ripples throughout the industry.
“It’s not the peanuts, ” Hardy said. “The peanuts are good. The farmer’s are doing a good job,” he said.
The outbreak, which has sickened hundreds and possibly led to nine deaths, has hurt sales for many farmers and spurred peanut producers to stick up for their products Tuesday at a “Peanut Power Hour” at the Capitol.
On display were peanut butter crackers, boiled peanuts, apples and peanut butter and regular roasted goobers.
Legislators joined the PR effort. Rep. Kevin Levitas (D-Atlanta) held a jar of Smucker’s crunchy peanut butter and ate some in front of the cameras.
Perhaps the most significant person who ate peanut butter was nine-year-old Caleb Godwin, whose mother let him.
“We feel like it’s been taken care of,” his mother Kimberly Godwin said. Peanut butter in jars has not been part of the product recall.
Godwin, a fourth-grader at Calvary Chapel Christian School, ate a small cup and stashed a pack of peanut butter crackers in his coat pocket too.
“It’s one of the few things he will eat,” his mother said.
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By jif pan
February 17, 2009 2:49 PM | Link to this
It’s not the peanut butter but the kool aid that you should watch out for that the politicians are pushing these days.