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Whole Foods to stop selling products made by inmates
http://www.latimes.com/ via A.P. ^ | 9/30/15

Posted on 10/01/2015 4:42:53 PM PDT by BBell

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To: Captain Peter Blood

They had a huge farm down there in the Gould and Wrightsville area.

Is that anywhere near Paragould? My dad was born in Paragould, named after J. W. Paramore and Jay Gould.


41 posted on 10/01/2015 5:36:24 PM PDT by Graybeard58 ( Bill and Hillary Clinton are the penicillin-resistant syphilis of our political system.)
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To: MarvinStinson

Shout it out.


42 posted on 10/01/2015 5:39:23 PM PDT by muglywump (Seven days without laughter makes one weak.)
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To: BBell

Something more constructive would be to make them go through garbage and separate the recyclables from the non.


43 posted on 10/01/2015 5:42:58 PM PDT by ronnietherocket3 (Mary is understood by the heart, not study of scripture.)
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To: trisham

LOL I go to walmart to avoid unpleasant cutomers


44 posted on 10/01/2015 5:43:26 PM PDT by morphing libertarian
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To: ronnietherocket3

Might be harder to control contraband that way


45 posted on 10/01/2015 5:44:58 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: morphing libertarian

I hear you. :)


46 posted on 10/01/2015 5:47:30 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: BBell

The best bet, and really good PR for Whole Foods, would be to set up a prison *training* program. Then, while the prisoners are learning, get a subcontractor to set up a production facility that will supply Whole Foods, hiring the prisoners right out of prison.

The icing on the cake would be if they set up group halfway house residences for them. So, minimum rent; set up direct deposit bank accounts, so they can accumulate some wealth; inexpensive prepared meals three times a day, etc.

Make it a good enough deal so that when their probation is done, they want to stay there for a while longer until they are in a good situation before migrating to different jobs and other situations in an orderly manner with much less stress.


47 posted on 10/01/2015 5:50:32 PM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy ("Don't compare me to the almighty, compare me to the alternative." -Obama, 09-24-11)
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To: Graybeard58

I recall a label once touting it’s product was ‘Made in the Americas.’


48 posted on 10/01/2015 5:50:34 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: BBell

I’m glad to see prisoners working but I wish they would grow something tastier than tilapia.


49 posted on 10/01/2015 5:51:53 PM PDT by posterchild
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To: posterchild
At 1.3 million tonnes per annum, China is the largest tilapia producer in the world, followed by Egypt with 0.5 million.[37] The US, by comparison, produces 10 thousand tonnes against a consumption of 2.5 million.

In modern aquaculture, wild-type Nile tilapia are not too often seen, as the dark color of their flesh is not much desired by many customers, and because it has a bit of a reputation of being a trash fish associated with poverty.On the other hand, they are fast-growing and give good fillets; leucistic ("Red") breeds which have lighter meat have been developed and these are very popular.

Hybrid stock is also used in aquaculture; Nile × blue tilapia hybrids are usually rather dark, but a light-colored hybrid breed known as "Rocky Mountain White" tilapia is often grown due to its very light flesh and tolerance of low temperatures.

Commercially grown tilapia are almost exclusively male. Cultivators use hormones, such as testosterone, to reverse the sex of newly spawned females. Because tilapia are prolific breeders, the presence of female tilapia results in rapidly increasing populations of small fish, rather than a stable population of harvest-size animals.

Source: Wikipedia

50 posted on 10/01/2015 5:55:48 PM PDT by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: 1raider1

So perhaps the solution is pay prison workers the prevailing wage scale, and then deduct costs of housing, food, restitution, and bank the rest for them when they have paid their debt to society. Sometimes the cruelty of so-called conservatives astounds me.


51 posted on 10/01/2015 5:57:46 PM PDT by erkelly
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To: erkelly

Farm raised and processed by inmates. What could go wrong.


52 posted on 10/01/2015 6:04:36 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: erkelly

Farm raised and processed by inmates. What could go wrong.


53 posted on 10/01/2015 6:17:36 PM PDT by Irish Eyes
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To: erkelly

That’s the point. If what you say was done, the cost advantage of using prison labor would be lost, so there would be no reason to use it. The union argument is, if you’re going to pay full wages, use law abiding employees. There is nothing wrong in training convicts skills, but making employees of them is taking jobs from those who obey the laws.


54 posted on 10/01/2015 6:24:57 PM PDT by 1raider1
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To: Graybeard58

No those towns are in southeast Arkansas. Paragould is northeast Arkansas, north of Jonesboro.


55 posted on 10/01/2015 6:30:25 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: DUMBGRUNT

I’ll take my chances with the prison labor.”

There is a prison about 15 miles from us which has a huge garden which is tended by the inmates and they also raise goats and chickens. They always have great produce for sale at a reasonable price and their goat cheese is better than anything you can buy in the store. Good use of their time and provides them with an opportunity to learn something useful.


56 posted on 10/01/2015 7:15:06 PM PDT by Grams A (The Sun will rise in the East in the morning and God is still on his throne.)
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To: BBell

I would recommend to everyone Prison Blues, which are the jeans made in the Oregon state prison at Pendleton. Prisoners need to work.


57 posted on 10/01/2015 7:20:34 PM PDT by Kaisersrsic
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To: cripplecreek; Captain Peter Blood; Grams A
The Louisiana State Penitentiary (Angola) still has a large prison farm. They have about a 2,000 head heard of cattle and raise about 4 million pounds of vegetable crops a year. They also raise wheat,cotton and soy beans.

The quality of the meat produced there is so high that the meat is sold on the open market and cheaper meat is feed to the prisoners.

58 posted on 10/01/2015 7:29:14 PM PDT by BBell
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To: exDemMom

So they just sit around milkin’ the trout.

That just sounds dirty.


59 posted on 10/01/2015 7:52:12 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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