Family Farm Ordered to Destroy 50,000 Pounds of Cheese

[Duffster]

Because you either A) realize that you could have made $200 million without the excess staffing, or, more likely, B) you look to future market predictions and realize that you won't need the current level of staffing to meet those future needs.

:thumbsup:

 

[Loren49]

A little info on Corporations - many are economically larger than many countries - recently given increased influence on US elections - send thousands of lobbyists to Washington - have little individual liability - can hide their activities from public scrutiny - not like the true small business down the street

The Rise of Corporations ? Global Issues

Of the 100 largest economies in the world, 51 are corporations; only 49 are countries (based on a comparison of corporate sales and country GDPs).

Of the U.S. corporations on the list, 44 did not pay the full standard 35 percent federal corporate tax rate during the period 1996-1998. Seven of the firms actually paid less than zero in federal income taxes in 1998 (because of rebates). These include: Texaco, Chevron, PepsiCo, Enron, Worldcom, McKesson and the world's biggest corporation - General Motors.

Loren

 

[looknlearn]

How do you figure they get those big profits =) Benefits and salary for those 1800 people are probably in the area of $135M ... lay offs aren't always a bad thing ... companies need to reboot every once in a while to keep themselves from getting too bloated.

Layoffs aren't always a bad thing until it is a family member who needs the job or even you (or me) who has bills to pay and gets laid off so a company's owner can line his pockets. I know there are people who, including our family, that if the father was laid-off, would be in deep financially trouble.

I am just pointing out an observation, not looking to argue with anyone.

 

[Duffster]

so a company's owner can line his pockets.

Lets assume he(she) is in business to make a profit. (He is not there to provide jobs) Nobody is owed a job.

 

[keegs]

Automation and cheap labor overseas have made it very difficult for the working person in the past few decades. What's left if you don't have a special skill are low paying service sector jobs. Add to that trickle down supply side tax policies undermining the social safety net and the result is a distribution of wealth at a level not seen since the 1920's.

We need to figure out a way to grow the middle class again. The country's future depends on it.

Those who've benefited most from this new order should realize that it's better to have a smaller piece of a growing pie than a bigger piece of a shrinking pie. The country will shift as it did in the thirties if they don't.

 

[Larry Caldwell]

What I know about farming you could put in a teaspoon, but I have almost 40 years in the seafood industry. I consistently find here that government (influenced by the major producers) consistently shuts down the little guy. Y for example is my crab for me to sell to an individual person (illegal for me to do so) and yet that same crab I can sell to a major seafood producer for nickels on the dollar who then sells it to the consumer legally? I wonder if that is not what we see here happening and will see more of it as homegrown and locally produced food take a bigger and bigger chunk out of agribigbusiness? Just my 2 cents.

Where is this? I go to the Oregon Coast all the time and buy fresh Dungeness crab right off the docks. If I am lazy, I can buy boiled crab from any one of hundreds of small seafood stores, who got it right off the boat with no intervention from a major processor.

 

[RickB]

Where is this? I go to the Oregon Coast all the time and buy fresh Dungeness crab right off the docks. If I am lazy, I can buy boiled crab from any one of hundreds of small seafood stores, who got it right off the boat with no intervention from a major processor.

That's the norm up & down the East Coast as well. Crab, clams, lobster, haddock, shrimp, whatever.

 

[tungularafishcamp]

Here in Kodiak unfortunatly we cant sell them off the boats to the consumer directly gotta go thru the canneries first.
Rick

 

[charlz]

Looks like both places were contaminated:

FDA tests confirm listeria at Texas food plant - Yahoo! News

Attorney General Koster seeks injunction against Howell County dairy

Even though Morning Lands cheese was verified to contain Staph and Listeria by another lab they refuse to destroy it.

 

[Duffster]

Even though Morning Lands cheese was verified to contain Staph and Listeria by another lab they refuse to destroy it.

Was it though? I think that is part of the problem.