OMG The British R Coming

It's been an odd last couple of weeks out here in West Texas.

The peanut butter salmonella issue was a small fire that turned into a raging prairie fire for peanut producers.

The Peanut Corp. of America facility in Blakely, Ga., that was the main culprit of the salmonella outbreak also has a plant just north of Lubbock in Plainview, Texas. Suddenly, the national issue hit a little closer to home. Although the issue had cooled down over the past couple of days, the national media got more to feed on today when the Plainview facility voluntarily shut down because of "the possibility of contaminated products."

The board I work for represents growers in this state. We maintain that our farmers are growing healthy, safe peanuts. Those peanuts are clean when they go to the processing facility. So, basically, that one corporation that apparently didn't think it needed to be registered or inspected - ever - is making life difficult.

Keep eating peanut butter in the jar. It's still safe. Don't be scared.

In other news, someone hacked into an electronic road sign about three miles south of where I live and made it say "OMG The British R Coming". The story was on Yahoo, CNN, ABC, Fox, the Denver Post, CBS News and everywhere else in between. I think they also hacked into another contruction sign and wrote "Slow Down: Zombies Up Ahead".

At least their humor was clean.