![]() Kellogg’s “mistake” means a couple million more pounds of it are going to get dumped in a landfill, and as TakePart reported earlier this year, food is already the biggest contributor of solid waste in landfills.īut perhaps most important is that with poverty levels sky high, and one in seven Americans needing to rely on government subsidies to feed themselves, food thrown in the garbage, especially on such a massive scale, is nothing less than a tragedy. But the food itself is just as detrimental to the environment. The plastic bags inside the 2.8 million boxes of affected cereal are enough to give a conservationist an aneurism. What’s really startling is the amount of waste created from a recall of this size. Nonetheless, a Kellogg spokesperson reported to The Christian Science Monitor that he’s confident consumer harm will be "limited." Oh, well as long as he's confident… After undergoing budget cuts, factories were said to have been understaffed and overworked, allowing for more mistakes.īut metal particles are a pretty big mistake, especially when Frosted Mini-Wheats in particular are marketed towards children. That time too, the problem was traced to issues with Kellogg’s supply chain. According to TIME Newsfeed, in 2010, it pulled a variety of its breakfast cereals off of store shelves because of their “odd colors and odors” – not exactly a descriptor you want attached to something you put in your mouth. This problem with the Kellogg seems to be an ongoing one. ![]()
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