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2022-06-12 Economy

Smithfield Foods to shutter California meat-packing plant

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Posted by Fred 2022-06-12 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Monroe said operating costs in California are much higher than in other areas of the country, including taxes and the price of water, electricity and natural gas.

Not to mention the cost of moving your stock and product into and out of the place.

Posted by Procopius2k 2022-06-12 06:34|| 2022-06-12 06:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Won't be long anyway til Cali outlaws meat altogether. For the proles, anyway...

Posted by M. Murcek 2022-06-12 07:51|| 2022-06-12 07:51|| Front Page Top

#3
Being in Social-Veggie-Fornia, how were they able to enslave poor defenseless animals (🐄 🐐 🐑 🐖 🐓)
and transport them to their Death Camps, given the area's culture? 😱

Posted by NN2N1 2022-06-12 07:54|| 2022-06-12 07:54|| Front Page Top

#4 They didn't see that coming along time ago?

Posted by Chris 2022-06-12 08:54|| 2022-06-12 08:54|| Front Page Top

#5 So Chinese-owned Smithfield can't deal with California Socialism?

Posted by Mercutio 2022-06-12 09:29|| 2022-06-12 09:29|| Front Page Top

#6 Even money says those empty containers coming back may soon have pigs as passengers. Why spent the processing money here for product you are sending back to China.

Posted by NoMoreBS 2022-06-12 11:44|| 2022-06-12 11:44|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm all for leaving California with just almonds they can't grow because they don't have the water, seafood they can only get to the coast because of high gas prices, interior farms that go fallow as they don't have water and a bunch of snotty idiots that don't understand why what very little food there is costs the sky.

Posted by DarthVader 2022-06-12 14:04|| 2022-06-12 14:04|| Front Page Top

#8 My vote is to give California back to Mexico and all Californians must become Mexican citizens (with Mexican EPA, OSHA and other standards). Then build a BIG wall

Posted by Cloluck Bourbon1058 2022-06-12 16:59|| 2022-06-12 16:59|| Front Page Top

#9 It will move to Reno or someplace just over the border. California will still be the market served at a lower cost.

Posted by Super Hose 2022-06-12 17:54|| 2022-06-12 17:54|| Front Page Top

#10 Replacement People employment and lodging update:

Rural Super-8 Hotel provides deep discounts on lodging...to some.

The Super-8 Hotel at I-64 and Illinois Route-1 vacancy problem has been solved. Owner Arpip Travidi (or somebody, perhaps the US Taxpayer) provides deeply discounted fares to English Language Challenged (ELC) long-term guests.

According to a local source, the ELC personnel are employed at the nearby (historically low paying) PetroClear Oil Filter manufacturing facility. A sharp increase in SNAP food supplement use has also been reported.

Super-8 owner Arpip Travidi (dot not feather) was unavailable for comment.

https://www.projectveritas.com/tip/ and Carlson info copied this evening. Feel free to pile on.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-06-12 17:57|| 2022-06-12 17:57|| Front Page Top

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