Although not really a good defense in the arenas of law or common sense, I was struck by how quickly Nestle suggested that the consumers sickened by eating their contaminated cookie dough were themselves at fault for ignoring the recommendation on the label that the cookies be “bake before consuming.” What most struck me as most odd (and indefensible) about Nestle’s suggestion that the consumer was to blame, is how incongruous it is for Nestle to say that its product was too dangerous to be eaten raw when it manufactures its cookie dough with pasteurized eggs. Prior to this outbreak, few (if any) would have argued that the risk of eating raw cookie dough, to the extent that it was risky at all, came from anything other than the risk of Salmonella poisoning due to the presence of raw eggs. But Nestle had plainly chosen to eliminate that risk. And my guess is that they did so specifically because they knew (and encouraged) people to eat the cookie dough while it was raw, a guilty pleasure of lots and lots of people.Continue Reading You Want a Glass of Milk with that E. coli Cookie?