Hormel buying No. 2 peanut butter Skippy for $700 million
January 3, 2013 at 3:48 am in Grand Forks Herald
Hormel Foods apparently has a hankering for a peanut butter and bacon sandwich. The company primarily known for Spam and other cured, smoked and deli meats said Thursday that it’s buying Skippy, the country’s No. 2 peanut butter brand, for about $700 million. Continue Reading
It’s the #1 seller in China.
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God Bless GMO Franken-peanuts and Chinese processing plants.
We wonder why peanut allergies are increasing, and increasingly severe.
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The same is true with pine nuts produced there.
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There are no GMO peanuts currently being used in peanut butter. I’m not aware of any GMO peanuts currently on the market.
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Death from peanut allergies isn’t unheard of by any means, do you mean there is now more severe effects than that?
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Regarding GMO peanuts: you’re perhaps correct, there’s no consumer use of GMO peanuts in the USA. NO promises about what’s happening in China, the land of lead paint, melamine in baby formula and pet food, and anti-freeze used as a sweetening agent in toothpaste–all of it exported to the USA.
http://www.gmo-compass.org/eng/database/plants/33.peanut.html
It’s coming soon to a grocery-store near you…soon.
Regarding allergies: From Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_allergy
Prevalence among adults and children is similar—around 1%—but at least one study shows it to be on the rise in children in the United States.[16] The number of young children affected doubled between 1997 and 2002.[17]
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