[chrisinoc]

Loved those Dodger dogs when it was served at Dodger Stadium.

[9422WMR]

It takes all kinds of critters to make Farmer Vincent’s fritters!

[BipolarBob]

[blam]

"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."

[Carriage Hill]

Another link in the food supply chain is weakening and about to fail. Over 30 manufacturers and distribution plants now burned or disabled. It’s not a coincidence.

[Slicksadick]

So much for the”Eastern most in quality, and the Western most in flavor”.

[faucetman]

More food production DESTROYED!

FORCED out of business by the green/kill off 90% of the population crowd!

Its all CONNECTED! /s

[jimfree]

Had the greatest mural on the exterior wall. The plant was very close to the Pep Boys warehouse where Dad was employed for several decades. He would have retired around 1987.

[immadashell]

… the parent company, Smithfield Foods, Inc., plans to move most of their business located on the West Coast to different regions.

Leaving Lib Land.

[Leep]

Biden says, soon you will all be vegetarians riding bicycles to work.
Muah ahahaha.

[beethovenfan]

Newsom strikes again.

[beef]

Probably animal rights legislation that prompted this. It is fine with me if they have nothing to eat but Soylent. Let them serve as an example of where this insanity takes you.

[G Larry]

Ya, for some odd reason fire insurance premiums went up 10X........

[qaz123]

The Chinese bought Smithfield a year or two ago.

Would be great to boycott but that puts Americans out of work

[GaltAdonis]

On the Farmer John's website it says:

"So Fresh. So Flavorful. So California."

Guess they're gonna have to change that.

https://farmerjohn.sfdbrands.com/en-us/

Farmer John's

[PGR88]

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.

[Worldtraveler once upon a time]

A rule of thumb much more basic than so much of the blather about economics these days is demonstrated.

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.

[dljordan]

Isn’t Smithfield owned by the Chinese?

[outofsalt]

Even the Chinese are leaving California!

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

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.

[GOPJ]

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.,

Smithfield Foods, Inc., is a pork producer and food-processing company based in Smithfield, Virginia, in the United States, and a wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group of China...

Lots of food processing plants are owned by China...