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2020-04-17 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-
Smithfield Hams - The high cost of cheap, foreign labor
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Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-17 03:01|| || Front Page|| [11132 views ]  Top

#1 Start with the lawn chairs and toilet seats, then move to round eyes' diet.
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-17 03:20||   2020-04-17 03:20|| Front Page Top

#2 /\ lawn deck chairs....
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-17 07:23||   2020-04-17 07:23|| Front Page Top

#3 Julia should only take her lap top and do a very rude thing, and while she's about it let's not forget her 'alarm' either. There is a great deal more to the Smithfield story and the situation in SD. This amounts to little more than propaganda apparently to create distrust in the food supply chains. The grocery stores still groan with abundant choices of fresh food.
Posted by Cesare 2020-04-17 07:34||   2020-04-17 07:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Other meat packing companies laugh and say "let's not be like that."
Posted by M. Murcek 2020-04-17 07:38||   2020-04-17 07:38|| Front Page Top

#5 But 'who knew?' I suspect nearly everyone within a 150 mile radius.
Posted by Besoeker 2020-04-17 09:02||   2020-04-17 09:02|| Front Page Top

#6 Tl;dr. Summary: Government bad, business worse, and OrangeManBad.
Posted by Bobby 2020-04-17 09:33||   2020-04-17 09:33|| Front Page Top

#7 It's the ninth-largest... which means there are eight larger pork processors in the country. Yet people are obsessing over this one plant temporarily closing and declaring we're about to have a famine.

Too many spoiled and unserious people around.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2020-04-17 10:12||   2020-04-17 10:12|| Front Page Top

#8 ^Love of bacon drives people crazy?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 10:13||   2020-04-17 10:13|| Front Page Top

#9 ...well there is a substitute to meet your requirements. Though I'm sure there'll be posters who says its not a real substitute (see - "They've never tried real socialism") ;)
Posted by Procopius2k 2020-04-17 13:19||   2020-04-17 13:19|| Front Page Top

#10 *Shrug* Considering the long going trade imbalance that Chinese Big Businesses, really proxies of the CCP, would have massive cash reserves that would be inconvenient to move back to China -- so buy "stuff" in the USA.
Posted by magpie 2020-04-17 13:39||   2020-04-17 13:39|| Front Page Top

#11 #10 Can you nationalize them (there is a precedent)?
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2020-04-17 13:43||   2020-04-17 13:43|| Front Page Top

#12 Javelina around here,better watch their back come dusk.
Posted by bbrewer126 2020-04-17 14:00||   2020-04-17 14:00|| Front Page Top

#13 What a nauseating narration, complete with goofy graphics.
Posted by swksvolFF 2020-04-17 15:54||   2020-04-17 15:54|| Front Page Top

#14 Have read the bod CV outbreak that forced closure of SD packing plant occurred two weeks after a visit by officials from China. Not sure it's true but certainly makes sense.
Posted by Glenmore 2020-04-17 15:57||   2020-04-17 15:57|| Front Page Top

#15 *Shrug* Considering the long going trade imbalance that Chinese Big Businesses, really proxies of the CCP, would have massive cash reserves that would be inconvenient to move back to China -- so buy "stuff" in the USA.

It's Chinese entrepreneurs trying to shield their assets from seizure by the Chinese regime - a threat that has hung over all wealthy figures in all regimes pretty much since the beginning of time. Edward Longshanks did it to Jewish merchants to whom he owed money, and Philip did it to the Knights Templar. Capital flight to avoid regime thievery is why Hong Kong's richest man, Li Ka-shing, has moved almost all of his assets outside of not just China, but Hong Kong itself.
Posted by Zhang Fei 2020-04-17 18:52||   2020-04-17 18:52|| Front Page Top

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