Peanuts for peanut safety from plant owners

In the latest, surest sign of how morally bankrupt much of American capitalism is, despite Beloved Leader Obama’s claims to the contrary in defending TARP 2.0, Peanut Corporation of America President Stewart Parnell said, in internal e-mails, he was more worried about bottom line costs than about salmonella, or other problems the company knew it had at its main plant, including cockroaches and a leaky roof.

So worried, in fact, that untested products were sent out the door to the public. So worried that PCA stopped using a testing lab that found too much contamination.

Don’t think PCA’s just-shuttered plant here in Texas, in Plainview, was any better. Employees called it “disgusting.”