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Have you guys heard about the salmonella outbreak caused by contaminated peanut butter.
Most of the peanut butter linked to the bacteria, was distributed in bulk to certain institutions rather than the jars of peanut butter in stores, as the two news quotes show below.
"Health officials recommended nursing homes, hospitals, schools, universities and restaurants that purchase the two brands discard them."
"To date, common brands of peanut butter sold to consumers in grocery stores do not appear associated with the outbreak."

So, it seems as though for children, eating school lunch or eating lunch with grandma at the nursing home, is just as, if not more dangerous than handling reptiles.
So since we banned the sale of small turtles and we would really like to ban all reptiles, maybe we should just consider banning all peanut butter, or maybe we should just ban lunches, or at the very least ban lunches at school and nursing homes. Or, we could ban all lunches over 4 ounces, that way you might just get a little sick instead of dead. Then we would have a 4" and a 4oz rule that make sense.
Please excuse my sarcasm.
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Jeff Benfer
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I don't know how old you are, but maybe you don't remember when every dime store sold baby sliders. I thought it was cool back then, but when I think of it now, it makes me shudder!

There would be a ten gallon tank filled with water and with 100 baby turtles. No basking plateform, no heater, no basking bulb. The dime store employee would sprinkle some dried turtle food in the tank now and then. The turtles that happened to be closest would get a mouthfull or two. Kids could buy the turtles for fifty cents and a little plastic bowl with a plastic palm tree in the middle. That would be the baby turtle's home. Again, no heater, no basking bulb, and dried turtle food to eat.

Needless to say, these turtles did not live long!

I'm glad they outlawed this practice!
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