It seems strange that the prison work-release workers were allowed to particpate in the union election. They aren't "real" employees, and would not be "real" union menbers. I'm thinking that most of the prisoners voted along with management. I hope that the outcome of the election did not hinge on the prisoner vote............ The union website reports on a strike by workers against Tyson Foods. There are listed several issues in dispute. This seems to be the first strike ever against Tyson, in this plant, which has apparently been unionized for quite some time. Link is here: http://www.ufcw.org/issues_and_actions/tyson_families_stand_up/index.cfm
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J Petersmith
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Re Mark Winne's Meat Industrial Complex I thought that this was a pretty good article, but confusing in that he fails to recognize some basic differences in the chicken, dairy, hog, and beef cattle industries. I was also not clear in his definition of what constitutes a "factory farm". The factory farm term is generally so muddled that just throwing it out there without definition is pretty useless. I have my own idea of what it is, but I can tell that he uses the term somewhat differently. I would like to see him focus on the hog industry, which has …
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I think that poor countries with starving children don't buy grain to feed them because either they don't have the money to buy grain, or else they are using the money that they do have for other things than buying grain. If they wished to buy grain, grain merchants would show up with the grain for them regardless of the US meat consumption charts. I would like for US hog production to revert to primarily small operator status. This would be better, I believe, for our environment, for rural communities, and for the pigs. There is enough solid data here to …
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In the seventies, the local market for wheat was near $5.00 per bushel, and wheat could be bought at the port of Houston in the $5.50 to $6.00 range. After the wheat boycot was used as a weapon against the USSR in 1979 the price crashed by about 50%. For the next 15 years, wheat could be purchased for export at the port of Houston for about $3.00 to 3.50 a bushel. I'm not sure that the cheap wheat price (and corn and other grains generally follow wheat in pricing), made much of a difference in impoverished countries. Indeed, it may …
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I was not blaming the poor in impoverished countries for being hungry, it was nyvegan who claimed that I was. I may have not been clear in my comments, and that would not be a first, but I simply meant that a simple drop in the world market for grain will not result in relief for the hungry of those countries. As I pointed out, there have been long intervals when world grain prices were ridiculously cheap, and it did not help to any marked extent. I was not at all suggesting that the poor of these countries were buying beer …
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