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re: Smithfield Farms closing major pork plant indefinitely--supply chains are getting tight
Posted on 4/12/20 at 9:49 pm to ImaObserver
Posted on 4/12/20 at 9:49 pm to ImaObserver
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The hogs will still be raised and slaughtered here, but the carcasses shipped to China to be cut up and packaged for sale there before being sent back here.
That doesn't even make any damn sense. Seems like it would cost far more to ship them back and forth than it would to just process them here.
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Posted on 4/12/20 at 9:50 pm to SSpaniel
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That doesn't even make any damn sense. Seems like it would cost far more to ship them back and forth than it would to just process them here.
You would be shocked how many inefficient trips are made across the pacific during the production of pretty much everything across all industries. You are underestimating how cheap it is to do things over there when you have no OSHA equivalent with any teeth and you can pay the labor pennies on the dollar.
This post was edited on 4/12/20 at 9:54 pm
Posted on 4/12/20 at 10:07 pm to I B Freeman
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If we as a society spend less on the case of beer you mention are we not free to spend more on higher value products? A dime a case more on ventilators or super computers or air conditioning
All are pretty much from China so...I and many like me would prefer to buy something not made in China...even if it costs more. Now, more than ever.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 10:09 pm to I B Freeman
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$4 a dozen now and are often out of stock at my store. Explain that.
Your store sucks. I mean, every store here has eggs. large or small stores all have them now.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 10:16 pm to Indefatigable
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You are underestimating how cheap it is to do things over there when you have no OSHA equivalent with any teeth and you can pay the labor pennies on the dollar.
Can I get a fricking AMEN!
Posted on 4/12/20 at 10:26 pm to I B Freeman
My God, do you even understand that previous policy was that the US would only trade with countries that honored the principles of the free market.
Giving China Most Favored Nation was a gift to a totalitarian regime.
How dare you call this a road to serfdom in your attempt to defend a country devoted to keeping its people as serfs.
You are straight defending and in support of the most evil country the world has ever seen.
The Soviet Union as an evil empire has been surpassed ten to one hundred fold by China.
Are you a registered foreign agent, how much are you being paid to do this.
Giving China Most Favored Nation was a gift to a totalitarian regime.
How dare you call this a road to serfdom in your attempt to defend a country devoted to keeping its people as serfs.
You are straight defending and in support of the most evil country the world has ever seen.
The Soviet Union as an evil empire has been surpassed ten to one hundred fold by China.
Are you a registered foreign agent, how much are you being paid to do this.
Posted on 4/12/20 at 11:59 pm to SSpaniel
quote:Here are a couple of references -
The hogs will still be raised and slaughtered here, but the carcasses shipped to China to be cut up and packaged for sale there before being sent back here.
That doesn't even make any damn sense. Seems like it would cost far more to ship them back and forth than it would to just process them here.
NASDAQ.COM
REUTERS
CNBC
Posted on 4/13/20 at 5:45 am to I B Freeman
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I oppose the President using the DPA
Didn't you just say this plant was essentially essential for the survival of America's food chain??
seems like what the DPA was made for.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 5:47 am to I B Freeman
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Smithfield Foods, the world's biggest pork processor, said on Sunday it will shut a U.S. plant indefinitely due to a rash of coronavirus cases among employees and warned the country was moving "perilously close to the edge" in supplies for grocers.
all of itPosted on 4/13/20 at 6:01 am to ImaObserver
None of those links say pork is being shipped to China and then being processed and shipped back to America.
Trump has bragged several times about the export of pork to China.
Trump has bragged several times about the export of pork to China.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:40 am to I B Freeman
If anyone wants to know how fricked our economy is, imagine our largest pork plants being owned by Chinese Communists & filled to the brim with illegal Mexicans.
Globalism at it's finest.
Globalism at it's finest.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 6:42 am to OleWar
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Giving China Most Favored Nation was a gift to a totalitarian regime
Who was the first President to do that?
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:11 am to udtiger
Jimmy Carter with the "temporary" status, Bill Clinton for the "permanent" status.
I credit every other President from Nixon to Obama with the assists.
I credit every other President from Nixon to Obama with the assists.
Posted on 4/13/20 at 11:48 am to OleWar
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Jimmy Carter with the "temporary" status, Bill Clinton for the "permanent" status.
Hmmmmm…
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President from Nixon to Obama with the assists.
True dat.
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