Posted on 06/10/2022 9:50:58 AM PDT by chrisinoc
A longtime staple of the Los Angeles community will close its doors next year, citing escalating costs to operate.
The Farmer John meatpacking plant, located in Vernon for more than 90 years, is expected to cease all operations in the early part of 2023 as the parent company, Smithfield Foods, Inc., plans to move most of their business located on the West Coast to different regions.
"Smithfield is taking these steps due to the escalating cost of doing business in California," a statement released early Friday morning said.
They said that customers on the West Coast would still receive services and product from their operations located in the Midwest, as they also look for "strategic options to exit its farms in Arizona and California," as well as decreasing their sow herd in Utah.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...
Bummer. Safeway had it’s bacon as low as $4/lb just recently. Now it’s $6 with a coupon. Most of the sheep out there will complain about high prices but enough to vote GOP? Sadly mistaken.
We need to explain how higher gas prices are raising the price of food. We’re not good at it and it should be self explanatory.
The Alaskan oil pipeline in the 70’s. People were against it until the OPEC embargo. The oil should have gone to Asia-world commodity. We shouldn’t need sky-high inflation for people to understand.
There’s more. The oil companies saw an opening and responded like the Jan. 6 committee.
Anybody ever hear about the Reichstag fire? I just did and I see too many similarities in the reaction to the Jan. 6 riots. Talk about opportunistic-smart too.
The Chinese bought Smithfield a year or two ago.
Would be great to boycott but that puts Americans out of work
"So Fresh. So Flavorful. So California."
Guess they're gonna have to change that.
https://farmerjohn.sfdbrands.com/en-us/
Logistics, labor, costs, regulation - are ALL a nightmare in SoCal.
In April, I personally spent an entire week looking for a warehouse for one load of refrigerated cargo. Finally found something near Bakersfield.
The larger, more expensive and more expansive a government or several layers of government, the smaller the individuals subject to their expansion and expenses.
The solution, as ever, is to shrink the power, costs and purview of government at all levels. Los Angeles in under city government, county government, state government and federal government, and ALL have costs to pile onto business, large and small.
Rebellion begins by closing businesses. Revolution begins by those deeply affected by closed businesses voting, first with ballots and then by other means.
A re-reading of the Declaration of Independence's first paragraphs explains what has happened, is happening and will happen again.
Isn’t Smithfield owned by the Chinese?
The leftist, socialist, communist, fascist, anarchist, Marxist demons are ready to riot, loot, burn and murder this Summer, about Roe vs Wade, or any other reason they can find or manufacture. Prepare yourself...
Even the Chinese are leaving California!
In 2018, California voters enacted Proposition 12. Effective on Jan. 1, this law bans the sale of pork in California coming from pigs born to sows housed in individual pens with less than 24 square feet of usable space. Ostensibly, the law was designed to ensure humane treatment of farm animals consumed in California. However, since 99.87% of pork that Californians consume comes from hogs born on farms outside the state, Proposition 12 applies virtually exclusively to out-of-state farms. California even intends to enforce its law through sending state inspectors to certify out-of-state sow housing.
Californians consume 13% of the pork eaten in the U.S., much too large for the nation’s pork producers to ignore. (I guess you really are what you eat.)
National Pork Producers Council v. Ross (Docket 21–468) is a pending United States Supreme Court case related to the Dormant Commerce Clause. Certiorari was granted in the case on March 28, 2022.
Bkmk
Hispanics use a lot of pork in their cooking, they are NOT going to be happy in CA. when this BS starts the shortages in CA.!! MANY of these illegals are soon going to realize living here is NO DIFFERENT than where they came from!!
Farmer John Premium Bacon of 11 am today at the Fry’s in Prescott Valley AZ: $4.99. At Ralphs in Irvine CA $6.99. Same UPC, same market chain.
“Smithfield became a subsidiary of the publicly traded Chinese corporation after the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) said the acquisition would not endanger national security.”
Thanks for posting this reality.
Most Americans think that Smithfield is still a small family owned company, based in Virginia.
They’re not shutting this operation down but they are moving it because they can no longer afford to operate in California. In this case, just a continuation of the California exodus.
It used to be people understood these things - but they are no longer being taught the basics.
With a physical move of assets and stockyard animals, a restart will take a while, effectively taking them out of the supply chain for weeks or months. Hope it goes smoothly and quickly.
Which is why some innovative people are looking at building or retro fitting older buildings and renting out Ghost Warehousing.
Then individuals, partnerships and even big companies with a lot of daily shipping could be potential customers.
Lookup Ghost Restaurants as an example behind this concept.
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