ConAgra defends pot pie health alert (Banquet)

Source: AP

OMAHA, Neb. - ConAgra Foods Inc. on Wednesday asked stores to stop selling pot pies linked to a salmonella outbreak, although the company and the U.S. Department of Agriculture defended their decision not to immediately recall the product.

ConAgra asked stores nationwide to pull the Banquet and generic brand chicken and turkey pot pies after two East Coast grocery chains made their own choice to remove the product from their shelves.

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139 cases in 30 states and the dept. of argriculture is dragging it's feet on a recall?

These pot pies are most used as quick snacks and lunches for kids etc...not good.

"He said he expects the pot pie issue to be resolved in less than six months, and he predicted the alert would hurt earnings per share by no more than a penny.

ConAgra shares fell 22 cents to $24.83 Wednesday."

Where they're standing firm about not recalling, and attempting to shift the blame onto consumers, whom they think are ignorant enough to eat an undercooked pie.

I guess sickening (and perhaps killing) a few hundred latchkey kids and college-age single folk is the price of doing business.

http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/119207311467680.xml&coll=7

fried chicken tastes good. Oh well, another one to cross off the list. I guess I'll have to get all my fried chicken fresh now. Not that I'm complaining, but the Banquet was good for those nights I would get home super late and want flesh to devour instantly.

I have been battling the big food corporations for about 15 years now! 80% of the food I used to eat is gone now! ( prepared from the supermarket.) My favorite Swiss Choclatier, since 1955 when I spent a summer in Germany, Tobler was bought by Kraft Foods.
Now I am forced to do more cooking. ( I work at home as an artist 6- 10 hours a day! 7 days ) I don't love it, I'm furious about it! I used to run through the market in 20 minutes drop $100. and be set for a week or 2........... More productivity for ME! More time to earn money, Now I read labels juggle, calculate, and spend 1 hour & $45.00! ............lose worktime!
About 1996 the FDA started fudging ingredients, & regulations, allowing stuff that shouldn't be in foods, high fructose corn syrup ( yes during the sainted Big Dog's administration! NAFTA) the big factory farms really started rolling along with a resultant drop in food quality. ANd the Tee Vee ads got louder and more blatant! I gave up Conagra altogether, Dinty Moore........Nabisco, Hellmans, Fritolay...............
Now I am growing as mich of my own food as I can.. freezing or canning.............HATE IT; BUT I'M HEALTHIER THAN MOST PEOPLE MY AGE!
Try buying chicken parts legs whatever...........shaking them in a bag with flour, bread crumbs, salt, pepper, paprika, seasoning.. mesquite or whatever and bag them, put them, in the freezer. Next time you need a quick meal, voila!
Bottom line. People formed societys, Commonwealth so that we wouldn't have to do it all! Let the Baker make your bread: more energy efficient than firing up every oven on the block! So much for the :Libertarian ideology! Our society is "BROKEN" until we can trust delegating these jobs to others, we need to do it for ourselves so that it is done correctly. Gives a lot of incentive for working to correct what's wrong with our society doesn' it?

meat free. The co. has individual burrito's... good, quick, in-expensive snack for after school that isn't laden with crap.

Peter Pan is back and offering free jars of its product. Still processed and packaged by Conagra. I never buy Conagra brands which include cheap frozen foods and really not a mammoth range of high end products. They have had contaminated meat and product alerts consistently over the years. I applaud Peter Pan's loyalty and determination to stick with the problem no matter what, even into the valley of the darkness of bankruptcy. Choosy parents choose something else these days.

You are getting killed by the cheap stuff these days. the juice situation is utterly insane. Only Welch's purportedly uses its own "Concord grapes" which somehow most(all?) other brands have outsourced with "Niagara grapes" to such superior and cheap and safer climes as Turkey, Argentina and other faraway enchanted democracies. The imprint on the plastic bottles can't be read until you drink the dark juice so check out the white grape varieties first. Like China supplying all the cheap brands AND Motts with apple concentrate whether it be upstate NY or Washington(the labels say product of USA, USA! but the faint imprint on the bottles all say China- or Turkey. You'll be happy to know that even "organic" blends(Tops' Nature's Promise") come from Turkey. I wonder what organic standards mean on the Anatolian plain? Old Orchard is very inexpensive and nowhere on its containers, labels or website do you even get a hint where the damn stuff is coming from or how really safe and nutritious the product is.

Almost all the recommended whole grain breads are pumped up with wheat gluten from God knows where and a healthy addition of more chemicals than the less nutritious white bread. At least you can see bread mold.

Our food situation is insane now that World bank policies of exporting food has run its course and the infrastructure here is just getting old, germy and cheap and looking for immunity from its GOP pals and ways to lie on labels.

Buy local. The pets poisoned by unknown Chinese entrepreneurs and idiot American food corporations? They are us.