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Stop buying peanut butter and the terrorists win.

I'm still buying jars of Trader Joe's natural creamy with salt at a time. Won't stop. I'm also fond of Jif, but haven't bought that in a while.

That said, they should have the factory location on the label of all these products, so that when there's a recall, it's clear which jars are tainted and which are not. One factory is bringing down the whole peanut butter industry, including compliant plants. Not exactly fair, is it?

we have a JIF plant in town, and if you're in the right place at the right time, you can smell the peanuts roasting -- YUM!!!! I've watched the recall lists grow, but I'm not going to give up my JIF.

Peanut butter is getting a bad name, unfairly. I'm still a fan, and will continue to eat my Jif and natural Smucker's without hesitation.

I prefer the organic peanut butter and peanut butter sandwich crackers (way cheaper than Ritz) at Trader Joe's. No worries!

My husband made peanut butter cookies just the other day...mmmmm. We're staying aware, but are still eating our Jif.

I'm down to my last bit of Skippy's Natural, and I'll be buying more as soon as I run out. There will always be reason to be wary or doubtful of any food product after all of the recent scares (tomatoes, spinach, etc.), but if companies like Skippy and Quaker Oats have assured the public of their quality, I think it's okay to take that leap of faith.

@whatseatingme: Why does being in the US mean we shouldn't ever have to worry about our food? If you're eating it, then you should be responsible to some degree. It's not always someone else's fault.

The FDA does not track every single food particle in the US from being grown or imported to being eaten with extreme exactitude and can thus say with certainty which specific particles are the tainted ones. If my neighbor borrows some flour, do I need to let the FDA know about it so they know where that flour went in case it turns out to be tainted? It would just be stupid from a liability standpoint, to release a list saying only which things are tainted. This seems strangely lost on someone who talks about the decision maker on the melamine in China being held responsible. Not to mention saying certain things are contaminated, but other stuff might be as well...it's basically like saying nothing. Who the heck is going to eat any peanut butter at all if that's the case? Releasing a safe products list is the way to go.

I'm sorry this gets off-topic, but you seem arbitrarily angry at random things. I mean, are you seriously angry that a pilot was able to water ditch a disabled plane without anyone dying is being celebrated as hero just because theoretically every pilot should be able to do it? There's a vast difference between able to do something and actually doing it.

By the way, the peanut butter and spinach were both tainted with salmonella, not e. coli. (I'm pretty sure that's why they aren't reporting the source of the e. coli contamination.) That has clearly been in the news (and even in this blog post). So maybe you should work a bit harder on informing yourself and stop acting like you "deserve" that information being spoonfed to you (which I do not recall being some kind of fundamental right). It's not really the news media's responsibility to tell you everything you need and want to know...so really, watching the news everyday really doesn't hold much weight when you argue something like this.

Like some other folks who commented, I haven't bought any new peanut butter...but not because of the scare. I just haven't finished my last jar of peanut butter. It's really too bad because this has to do more with peanut products, not really peanut butter...right?

We just picked up a new jar of Smuckers organic natural peanut butter on Wednesday. No worries here :-)

Ham and swiss on rye

the classic ham and cheese toasted on a panini grill

Mayo and swiss.

On sourdough bread, lots of really good ham, a slice of Swiss Cheese, a bit of Grey Poupon mustard, some sweet pickle relish, and some head lettuce. Hmm, good!