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| Smithfield Foods to shutter California meat-packing plant |
| 2022-06-12 |
| [ABCNEWS] Meat-packing giant Smithfield Foods said Friday it will close its only Caliphornia, an impregnable bastion of the Democratic Party, plant next year, citing the escalating cost of doing business in the state. The Farmer John meat-packing plant in Vernon, an industrial suburb south of Los Angeles, will shut down in February, with its 1,800 employees receiving severance and job placement support along with bonuses for those who choose to stay on the job until the closure, said Jim Monroe, vice president of corporate affairs. Some workers, who on average earn about $21 per hour, also will have opportunities to relocate to other facilities owned by the Virginia-based Smithfield Foods Inc. The Vernon plant slaughters pigs and packages products such as ham and bacon. Some operations will be moved to other facilities in the Midwest, but the overall reduction in processing capacity is prompting Smithfield to reduce its sow herd in Utah. The company also said it is exploring ways to exit its farms in California and Arizona. 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. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #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 |
| #5 So Chinese-owned Smithfield can't deal with California Socialism? |
| Posted by: Mercutio 2022-06-12 09:29 |
| #4 They didn't see that coming along time ago? |
| Posted by: Chris 2022-06-12 08:54 |
| #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 |
| #2 Won't be long anyway til Cali outlaws meat altogether. For the proles, anyway... |
| Posted by: M. Murcek 2022-06-12 07:51 |
| #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 |