This is the American Greed Podcast presented by

C and BC. I'm Stacy Keach.

In this episode of American Greed,

CEO Stuart Parnell starts with peanuts and makes millions by cutting corners and exploiting workers.

It was run like a plantation.

Parnell's peanut butter goes to stores, schools, hospitals, and U.S. troops.

But his factories are criminally dirty.

We were trying to seal up holes in the wall to keep mice from coming in.

We found evidence of roaches, rats, mice, beetles.

The filth breeds one of the biggest food poisoning outbreaks in US history.

Parnell knows the risk, but raking in $30 million a year he instructs workers to just ship it. I'm looking at him after seeing those

emails thinking that's the devil right there. That's the epitome of greed. His

picture should be in the dictionary next to the word greed.

Due to their willful and knowing actions, they killed nine people. This could end up being one of the largest food recalls in US history.

Recall comes after federal officials confirmed salmonelic contamination at a Georgia facility.

And now the recall is being expanded to include every item made from peanut products at that plant in the past two years.

Peanut butter, it's a multi billion dollar a year industry and one of the most

popular items on store shelves. But in January 2009 it's deadly.

peanut products are laced with the salmonella bacteria.

It's sickening and even killing people from coast to coast.

There's a race against time to trace the source and stop

which turning into a nationwide panic.

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