Meat shortages: The wages of 'cheap'
illegal labor
American Thinker,
by
Monica Showalter
Original Article
Posted By: ladydawgfan,
4/20/2020 8:32:19 AM
In 2004's preachy, much-panned, leftist mockumentary, "A Day Without A Mexican," the supposedly hypothetical scenario, about how California would fall apart if all its Mexicans, including illegals, somehow disappeared, was acted out. The film had a grand old time portraying white people as a bunch of soft, privileged, fools, unable to clean even their own toilets.
Which is annoying because it lumps most Americans into a stereotype of a typically feckless, over-monied limousine liberal, such as you might really find in Hollywood circles.
But it did raise the question of U.S. dependence on illegal foreign labor.
Seems we might just be experiencing that now with the big meat-plant shutdowns,
I think slaughtering animals should be a very high paying job.
Has Mike Rowe ever done a dirty job segment on that?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Quigley 4/20/2020 9:20:05 AM (No. 385265)
Very interesting. One sees who the open borders crowd is. Of course, if wages are raised presumably the consumer would pay- or are the chinese owners of the meat packing plant just making over sized profits by buying out competitors and using migrant workers?
Too bad acosta’s on china’s payroll and won’t ask hard questions of the chinese owners of this packing plant. But then if pigs had wings acosta could fly.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
LadyHen 4/20/2020 10:21:38 AM (No. 385368)
Have to admit, I miss the day of the corner butcher I am not to young to remember that lost luxury. So few groceries even have a real butcher. My grandfather butchered his own hogs and salted/smoked his own meat and stuffed his own sausage. His sage sausage was amazing.
The answer to this issue is automation as much as possible. Like so many agricultural industries who at one time employed stoop labor, machines do a better job. Mechsnize, machines don't need benefits, don't have sick days, don't strike. For the necessary humans better working conditions with good pay for Americans, no illegals. Better conditions period for both man and beast would create a better environment and product. We know this. The safety of our food chain must be maintained.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
oldmagnolia 4/20/2020 10:25:56 AM (No. 385376)
Since we are not dying fast enough and the medical infrastructure is still functioning well, our enemies are now trying to contaminate the food supply. Make no mistake about it.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
mean Gene 4/20/2020 11:00:12 AM (No. 385440)
Smithfield brands include Armour, Berlinki, Carando, Cook's, Curly's, Eckrich, Farmland, Gwaltney, Healthy Ones, John Morrell, Krakus, Kretschmar, Margherita, Morliny, Nathan's Famous, Pure Farmland, and Smithfield.
The Chinese man who owns a major share is a billionaire because of it.
The employees are mostly immigrants who speak about 80 different languages at the main Smithfield plant.
Something tells me the washrooms don't post how to clean your hands in 80 languages.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 4/20/2020 11:03:29 AM (No. 385449)
I pointed out two days ago here that the giant meat packing plants run by Costco, Armor and Tyson are all located in very small towns in the rural midwest - where there is NO CHANCE of the local labor market being able to supply the thousands of workers that each of these giant megafactories requires.
So - entirely predictably ( dare I say PLANNED?) these huge plants attract thousand so of illegal aliens, mostly from Mexico, to work in them. And because the local economy benefits from all the construction, trucking, etc jobs which are peripheral to this, the local government folks just LOVE the importation of thousands of illegal aliens. And the companies get really cheap labor, really low taxes, really low land prices and a small, compliant local government - happy to break the immigration laws for a bit of added
commerce in a tiny town which has previously had relatively few jobs, relatively slow growth. And that was primarily because they have very little available local labor - if you count American citizens.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Muguy 4/20/2020 11:23:51 AM (No. 385485)
The companies who can tuna are owned by foreign interests as well.
The quest for the Almighty American Dollar and dumping pensions and health care for American workers by manufacturaing overseas is beginning to take hold to the ruination of our own country. Once great products that were once built in the USA are built cheaply and DON'T LAST AS LONG anymore!
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
cor-vet 4/20/2020 11:43:06 AM (No. 385518)
Poster #6 very eloquently summed up the reason the Chambers of Commerce (with Paul 'RINO' Ryan) advocating for illegal immigration.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
TXknitter 4/20/2020 1:09:01 PM (No. 385655)
I do not think that is a conspiracy theory #4 comments here. It never made sense to me that the lowest of third world immigrants were hired in restaurants, hospitals and food-related service industries. In hospitals, I have seen too many times where they bring their third world hygiene habits with them. Political correctness saw to it they would never get reprimanded for filthy hands.
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If I go back to being a vegetarian, can we send immigrants back ?
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First off, this nation's meat producers MUST be owned solely by Americans. This is a prime example why. Second, they must be staffed solely by Americans. Again, this article lists the reasons why. It's bad enough that we have spent the last six weeks fighting over toilet paper and paper towels, now we are going to see fights and hoarding over meat as well??!! Enough, already!!