Worker: I Saw Rat Roasting In Peanut Plant

[bijou]

A former employee of the Georgia peanut plant at the center of a criminal investigation in a nationwide salmonella outbreak says he saw a rat dry-roasting in a peanut area.

Jonathan Prather was one of 50 people who lost their jobs last month when the Peanut Corporation of America shut down its plant in Blakely.

The outbreak is blamed in as many as eight deaths and has sickened some 500 people, authorities say. Many products made with peanut paste from the plant have been recalled.
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[thundley4]

Gotta wonder if sour grapes are involved with his story. 

[Chris_]

Gotta wonder if sour grapes are involved with his story. 

He certainly doesn't seem to have the earmarks of a concientious "whistle-blower".  Roasted Rat doesn't even raise an eyebrow for him until he's out of a job and looking to get back at his former employers.

[bijou]

Gotta wonder if sour grapes are involved with his story. 

Always possible, but I wasn't going to pass up the headline.    Although a current employee would be reluctant to speak out if this were true.

[thundley4]

Always possible, but I wasn't going to pass up the headline.    Although a current employee would be reluctant to speak out if this were true.

True, but no where does he say that he even bothered to tell management.  Then there's this:

"Prather says it saddens him that many people have been impacted by the salmonella, adding he's speaking out now because his mother always raised him to tell the truth.

Other employees, Glor notes, have been quoted as saying they did not see problems like the ones depicted by Prather. "