Posted on 06/10/2008 11:18:12 AM PDT by Westlander
NEW YORK - Kosher meat, always more expensive than regular beef and poultry, may grow even pricier this summer, following the arrests of nearly half the work force in an immigration raid at the nation's largest kosher meat processor.
If the company can maintain production at the plant, its prices may still rise as it hires documented workers after the largest immigration raid in history, said Joe Regenstein, a food sciences professor at Cornell University.
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Looks like the owners have bought themselves a get out of jail cared.
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Something about this story isn’t, hmmm what’s the word I’m looking for here....it was on the tip of my tongue...
Sell the crystal meth found there and put the profits back into the business to keep the kosher prices down.
“said Joe Regenstein, a food sciences professor at Cornell University.”
More garbage from the society of “those that can’t do teach”
If the article is truthful then this sounds to me like an admission that the company was paying slave wage labor rates. One thing about it, if they have to start paying legal wages then perhaps Americans will start benefitting and taxes will therefore get paid, hopefully anyway.
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its prices may still rise as it hires documented workers...
As they should, and the lawbreakers should go to jail and/or be heavily fined.
The cheese isn't certfied, but bacterial rennet coagulation is good enough for me.
The problem is with the law that is so full of loopholes for the employer that all he has to say is that the worker presented what looked like valid documents and he has a get-off-scot-free card.
If the cost is higher, then so be it, get the ILLEGALS OUT OF THIS COUNTRY NOW!
The backside of that, is employers are, in praticality, really not permitted to challenge proof of citizenship — because if they do, they get slapped with a discrimination suit.
It’s a Catch-22.
“The backside of that, is employers are, in praticality, really not permitted to challenge proof of citizenship — because if they do, they get slapped with a discrimination suit.
It’s a Catch-22.”
The above brought about by the “social justice” lawyers in the American Communist lawyers Union and the Democrats like the Swimmer.
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