http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/21/us/salmonella-peanut-exec-sentenced/index.html
Stewart Parnell, CEO of a peanut company, was given 28 years in prison for knowingly selling products contaminated with salmonella. This was part of the deadliest outbreak of salmonella ever. His brother, Michael Parnell got 20 years, and their quality assurance manager got 5 years.
I think Stewart Parnell deserves every minute he got behind bars. He knowingly and willingly gave people products that were deadly. Loads of people died in the huge salmonella outbreak in 2008. It's ridiculous how far people will go to avoid losing money. Just look at Bluebell. They took all their products off the shelves, and started over, to avoid selling anymore diseased products. But Stewart Parnell was fine with it. Maybe it's not actually about saving money, but I can't think of any other reason to purposefully poison people, besides being completely off your rocker.
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ReplyDeleteThis is similar to what happens in Radium Girls. These companies are knowingly harming people in order to keep in business and continue to make money. This is profiting off of someone else's misfortune. I pretty sure dealing with problem instead of ignoring it would have been far more worthful than going to jail.
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Greed is a terrible issue in this country, and it's displayed very obviously in this case. What he did was terrible, and it was all for money. -Bob Cummins, 6th Period
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