New demand for peanut flour benefits Early County

Usually you wouldn't think of "Blakely" and "diet products" in the same context...

From http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=1599166&nav=5kZQKAbJ:
 
A major ingredient in many diet products and energy bars these days is peanut flour.
(...) The low-fat, high-protein item is making big strides in other fields too, like the candy industry. One South Georgia town stands to benefit from the growing popularity.
(...) Here's the future of Golden Peanut Company, "It's a good product, it's an easy one to deal with, and I think it has got a big future," says Special Products General Manager Ben Houston.
(...) The product is peanut flour. Golden Peanut Company, the world's biggest sheller of peanuts, started producing the high protein flour in the early 1990's as a small side business. According to Houston, that side business is growing, "We hope in the time to come, we will be the shining star of Golden Peanut."
(...) And this is how they hope to do that: with a brand new, $8 million peanut flour plant in Blakely, "We'll over double our capacity from this facility to the next one, and there is room for additional equipment if we need it."
(...) That's a nearly 60% increase in staff at the Golden Peanut Plant-- all because of this popular peanut product.

Yay to Blakely and its peanuts! Living right at the epicenter of wholesome peanut flour, can we expect a huge slimming down of the local population?

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