The History of Peanut Butter — The Man Who Went to Prison for It
In September 2015, a federal court in Georgia sentenced a 61-year-old American businessman to 28 years in prison. His crime was not murder, drug trafficking, or terrorism, but the distribution of contaminated peanut butter. It remains the harshest sentence ever handed down in a U. S. food safety case. Stewart Parnell ran the Peanut Corporation … Read more