[texastoo]

For sure, a fast food hamburger stand is a small batch plant utilizing a mass produced product that it customizes for the end user. There is a wide variation in the final product that a mass producer could fulfill if he were willing to manufacture and stock all those variations.

At one time the U.S. had "food processing plants" not manufacturers of hamburgers. There has always been a wide variation in the final product. For instance, prior to John Kerry in 2004, these plants took beef, froze some hamburger, made beef jerky, frozen diners, ect.

I wonder why it is necessary to change food processing into manufacturing which is on paper only. Maybe NAFTA was such a failure that we are masking the REAL figures regarding manufacturing.

[Toddsterpatriot]

I wonder why it is necessary to change food processing into manufacturing which is on paper only.

When did this change occur?

[1rudeboy]

Maybe NAFTA was such a failure that we are masking the REAL figures regarding manufacturing.

Like I said, that's what the Kerry campaign and the DNC tried to suggest during the '04 election season. Everyone that understands how the statistics are tabulated simply laughed. No one but the paleos and other 3P malcontents fell for it.