why the hell is it

[acroyear]

that there is more coverage of the peanut butter scare in Australia and Britain than there is here in the states?

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[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

Because we had ours with Peter Pan three years ago.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

So brand new contamination, brand new class of products, but because it's "old news" (since the media can't tell the difference), people are going to get sick and possibly die.

I love it.

[dansr.livejournal.com]

I don't have a tv/haven't been following the news about it, so I didn't realize that the coverage was so ... non-covery. I wonder, are there more peanut allergy folks here in the US than Australia & Britain?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

an allergy is a moot point - this is a salmonella contamination. most people would get sick from it. i was in this post just referring to the lack of info from google, particularly google on "news" on this matter. in the "news" i got more links from outside the states than inside.

[dansr.livejournal.com]

I realize that it's a salmonella contamination, but I was curious about the level of allergy in the different countries. And I don't disagree that the news is screwing up by not reporting on it.

[cozit.livejournal.com]

Hazelnuts/filberts are used more over on the other side of the Atlantic... except for actual peanut butter, it seems like every product that I'd see peanuts in here tends to have hazelnuts there. (guess which of the two I'm allergic to ... stinks when your favorite cookie turns up "new and improved" because they added hazelnuts to up the protein/nutrition level... even more when you don't notice the change because they don't use "new and improved")

[dansr.livejournal.com]

Ahh... I never new that about hazelnuts/filberts on t'other side of the pond. I also didn't know you were allergic!

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

I think it is important more for the fact that unlike other products the Europeans (and Australians) eat, anything involving peanuts ONLY comes from the United States. There's no 3rd world nation growing them so if something affects the source that affects the only supply they have.

That's true for us as well, but (ignorant) Americans actually tend not to care if there's a shortage of something until it hits the wallet.

[ladyprivy.livejournal.com]

Because once again...the media down plays the truth.

[dansr.livejournal.com]

When doesn't the media do that? (I mean aside from when they try to freak everyone out uncontrollably ie: terror alerts.)

[ladyprivy.livejournal.com]

How very true. btw...I love your icon!!!

[dansr.livejournal.com]

Hee hee... thanks. :) Feel free to snag it (just credit whom I snagged it from!)

[stori-lundi.livejournal.com]

And there's an inauguration about to happen and a plane crashed in the Hudson on Thursday.

[dreamtigress.livejournal.com]

Do you listen to NPR ??

That's what I tune into if I want the news that few others are reporting. I heard about the PB on Saturday.

I agree that the general, mainstream media sucks donkey balls. And the local news ? Cares more about a plane in the Hudson than Baltimore's Mayor being a corrupted twit. But at least there's NPR, MPT, and the BBC.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

I listen to WTOP for the traffic reports, and that's about it. Soon as I don't need to hear something anymore I switch to XM or my own music.

[dreamaastrid.livejournal.com]

since I read your post.. I've seen it all over the news...

[cozit.livejournal.com]

I heard about the mayor on WTOP and the next morning on Baltimore's Fox channel (hey, it's always got the weather up - handy for when getting the kids going). But she was indicted a week before the plane crash... and there *were* local people on the plane (not to mention it's impressive the pilot managed to miss the bridge(s), land in one piece, and that *everyone* got out).

Until more happens about the mayor, as long as she's claiming innocence, no new charges are brought up, or she goes to trial, it's a "non-story" as there's nothing new to add.

(then again, heck, I grew up outside of Philly, and you *rarely* heard the stories on the news that you *knew* should be out there, considering several of the mayors' connections)