![]() The result now threatens not only a town's sense of identity, but the future of the humble peanut itself. of America plant that allegedly sold salmonella-laced products and launched a deadly food-safety scandal.Ĭafe owner Fred Large say it's unfair that a rogue corporate operator who bought much of his peanut stock from China and Argentina should have "drug this town through the mud."Īs he helps his son Caleb prep a hefty sow for the show, middle school teacher Harriss Brown worries that his community – which should be exemplified by the innocent toil of young farmers, he says – is getting a reputation as "a town full of killers."īut it's clear amid the hushed barn whispers that the scandal has also forced a communitywide reevaluation of a go-along-to-get-along working culture that pervaded the low-slung Peanut Corp. ![]() It's also home to the now-infamous Peanut Corp. Dressed in spotless Wranglers, pint-sized cowboy boots, and pearl-buttoned farm shirts, the boys and girls of Blakely, Ga., could hardly look happier as they brush down their hogs in hopes of a blue ribbon.īut a behind-the-scenes glimpse at the Early County Market Hog Show shows all is not well here.īlakely is America's peanut capital, the seat of the biggest peanut-growing county in the United States and "peanut proud," as the motto goes.
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