Posted on 02/21/2009 5:17:52 AM PST by Dr. Scarpetta
A flag is flying at half-staff outside The Hershey Co. plant in Reading where production of York Peppermint Patties is ending.
After 23 years in Reading, the chocolate maker is closing the plant Friday and moving production to a new factory it has built in Monterey, Mexico.
It will mean the loss of 300 jobs in the southeastern Pennsylvania city. The plant also makes 5th Avenue and Zagnut candy bars and Jolly Rancher hard candies.
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FROM POST #16 by cripplecreek:
'Peanut proud' farm town struggles with tainted image
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Cafe owner Fred Large say it's unfair that a rogue corporate operator who bought much of his peanut stock from should have "drug this town through the mud."
LOL
This is B.S.
There are plenty of IT people out there. Some of them are even qualified.
But they're not $30K/yr people.
I will agree on the sugar protection, though. It's dumb, and has really hurt the U.S.
I saw that, and wondered how a cafe owner becomes an expert on purchasing for that particular company.
What are they really worth?
Maybe he heard about the lab worker’s testimony.
Making it hearsay evidence. The original poster was asking about real evidence.
Wrong. The poster asked for a source for my comment and I gave it. :)
It’s also obvious that PCA used peanuts from a different source than the other two companies since THEY DIDN’T POISON ANYONE.
No strawman involved. You're just another of the half-assed free traders, free marketers who refuses to acknowledge that the free movement of labor is necessary to have a true free market.
Why should capital and goods and services be able to cross borders, but not labor?
The EU overlords know what they intend for their free market, and it definitely includes the free movement of labor. It's just taking a lot of half-assed American free traders a long time to learn what is going on all around them. By the time most of them stop pretending, we'll have open borders and they'll understand what their betters always meant by free trade and free markets.
NOT 5th AVENUE!!!
Avenida Cinco...argh
And when someone points out to you that you are not analyzing but reacting you start with the insults, because you don't have the mental capacity for anything else.
It would be a definite help to me and my family if there was an easily accessible, easily understood listing of products that fully quality as American Made. I would happily restrict my purchases to those on that list, even it the cost was higher, but darned if I can figure out what’s America made anymore.
Part of it’s just pure laziness on my part, not wanting to take the time to investigate the American part of all I buy. But in my own defense, a lot of it is also the fact such info is hard to come by. In some cases impossible.
I can’t believe any company with a hope for tomorrow is moving to Mexico at this point. Must be a death wish of some sort.
Yeah... those dang union... that is why the sock industry left Fort Payne... except there was NO union and taxes are low here and I never knew of one OSHA person even bothering to come here.
They left because they could pay some poor joe elsewhere five dollars a day... and compete with other folks that had already harnessed the cheap labor movement.
Unions ain't the cause of all industry leaving the USA... stop making it the scapegoat in all situations.
Lol, not a protectionist. I just don't pretend that free trade exists where it doesn't. Do we have free trade with Japan? With China? With South Korea? Who do we have free trade with?
You're so in love with the theories some professor crammed into your head that you can't look at a real life situation and determine what state of trade actually exists. And the only thing being traded in most of these agreements is American jobs and technology for cheap labor in third world nations and low tariff access back to US markets.
But maybe, as someone pointed out, that the lower world price for sugar is part of Hershey's incentive. Of course, why is the world price of sugar lower than in the US? Why, because labor is very, very cheap in Cuba and the Caribbean compared to the US, and sugar cane production is a very labor intensive ag operation. So, of course, growers paying very low wages can produce cheaper sugar than US producers. Again, going for the cheap labor in their plant and in the raw material.
And, when I want worthwhile analysis of trade and economic situations, I certainly will not be looking to you, in spite of your exalted opinion of your understanding of these matters.
For sure I'll be checking the packaging of the Hershey products. Made in Mexico (or any other nation) will stay on the shelves. A tariff on imported Hershey products high enough to wipe out the foreign production advantages would be nice too. Hershey products made in other nations should only be for the consumers of those nations.
Japan? No. China? No. South Korea? No. And you don't know who we have free trade with? You're too stupid to have an opinion. And too stupid to realize that declaring your ignorance is no way to convince people you have one.
Something else to take into account is beet sugar vs cane sugar. They are not the same. Certain items won't turn out well using beet and need cane sugar. In the stores the only bag of sugar I could find that listed the type of sugar in the bag was Domino and it was cane. I use cane because it c an be used for everything while beet cannot.
Beet sugar is a one step processing operation, while cane sugar is a two step process, so cane could and probably should cost more than the beet. Cane is grown is less places for obvious reasons.
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