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Show i t A CRIME IN PEANUT BUTTER As reported in the Deseret News Monday evening even-ing an Associated Press release tells of the burning of twenty-seven hundred jars of peanut butter in Idaho Falls last Saturday afternoon. It appears that a condemnation order had been given by the inspectors inspec-tors for the pure food and drug act because the jars of peanut butter weighed only 15 and GG hundredths; ounces, whereas they should have weighed 16 ounces. We, of course, do not know whether or not there was a deliberate action upon the part of the manufacturers manu-facturers to short-weight the jars and we do not condemn the pure food act officials from taking action ac-tion against the sale of it but we do object to the destroying of that food. Whether or not the contents weighed 12 ounces, 15 ounces or 16 ounces it was good food and someone would have been happy to use it. Government officials are urging us to conserve con-serve all the food we can and not to be wasteful with that-which we have. Yet other officials of the government gov-ernment deliberately takes out $675 worth of food and burns it. It just doesn't make sense. It would have been much better, in our opinion, had the agent taken the product and offered it for sale at a greatly reduced, price. The amount he received re-ceived would have compensated for the expense the government was put to in handling the sale. Or it could have been properly marked as to its weight and sold at its regular price according to weight- And again it could have been given to some .charitable organization or-ganization for distribution to the needy. The government, govern-ment, in trying to punish someone for one crime has committed another, even greater than the first. |