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I am not at all sure what to make of this story:

(via Raleigh (NC) News-Observer)

DURHAM --Four employees of a ConAgra food plant in Arkansas were fired last month after [an object in the shape of a human foot] was found in a box of frozen chicken at a Lowe's Foods store in Durham.

The family who bought the package of Banquet frozen fried chicken July 12 called police, thinking the object was a human foot. The police sent the item to the state medical examiner's office in Chapel Hill. The conclusion: a chunk of deep-fried dough.

Tania Graves, a ConAgra spokeswoman, said the chicken in the box was prepared and packaged at the company's plant in Batesville, Ark.

Graves said investigations by the company indicated that one of the plant's employees had taken dough normally used to prepare the chicken and created the "foot."

Graves said three people who could have taken action to stop the dough ball from leaving the plant were "held accountable."

Okay, the political content here appears to be zero, although we have not yet heard from the now-unemployed Batesvillians behind the project. If it was a PETA action they would have had a press release out by now.

But the US Army and CACI might want to make notes here about how to handle people who misbehave on boring night-shift jobs.