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.
(Excerpt) Read more at businessweek.com ...
Your argument, then, is that if the sugar tariff were dropped, those jobs would return to the states?
I don’t have a sweet tooth, per se. I do like ice cream and apple pie.
When I do pick up the occasional chocolate, I don’t look at the price. I think about the quality and taste.
I’d pay the difference for an American made product given the deaths of my countrymen from bad chives.
If you want good chocolate, there's a plant locally (Lititz, PA) that make great chocolate: Wilbur's.
Worth a try, the manufacturing that left because of the raw material costs may not come back, but the door is opened for new players.
There was a story out some time ago that Hershey’s was phasing-out cocoa from some of its chocolate candy. So you need to really look at the label: “if it says, “chocolate-flavored product” or some such nonsense, look out.
Do tax cuts stimulate growth, or not? (I can't believe I have to ask).
It is the end user who pays the taxes. Anything that a company must "pay" for is passed down the line and is a cost of doing business. Raising taxes on any entity is just a dishonest way of taxing the individual.
The whole country of Mexico is in danger of being taken over by the drug cartells in the next few years and they want to move their manufacturing facilities there. Hersheys must have been taken over by the same people advising the annointed one!!!
I feel your pain! LOL
Does consumer spending stimulate growth?
Now I know why the roads are crap 10 man crew one halfway working must be a union thing
It would not bother me, The manufacturing plant would clean the water before it is used, to protect the investment made in the plant. Coke and Pepsi made in Mexico is better because of the real sugar.
Ahh Yes, the anti freeze taste. China has used it on people in the past...
Warning from Wici-pedia:”Ethylene glycol antifreezes are poisonous and should be kept away from any person or animal that might be tempted by its sweet taste.”
I grabbed this from a cached blog on China and Glycol...
http://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:TN7-ybA2zekJ:www.chinamediablog.com/2007/06/03/chinas-food-crisis-pr-strategy-blame-everyone-else/+Ethylene+glycol+china+food&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=31&gl=us&client=firefox-a
Following the great melamine scandal of ‘07 a few other China-linked disasters have emerged into public view. In early May the New York Times ran a lengthy investigative report on tainted cough syrup in Panama killing people. The cause was toxic, cheap ethylene glycol from China sold as harmless but more expensive glycerine and used in the manufacturing. The ethylene glycol has been getting around, apparently, as it has also found its way into Chinese toothpaste (proxy link) exported to Panama, the Dominican Republic, Costa Rica (and, for good measure, smuggled into Nicaragua) and, it has been discovered, the United States.
“As far back as mid-May, Dave Barboza of the New York Times and International Herald Tribune was writing about China’s “credibility problem” surrounding food exports. The situation has not improved since then. Barboza points out that a thirty-billion dollar a year export business it at risk. And that’s where the agendas come into play. The Washington Post, among others, has run op-ed columns editorializing about Chinese food imports in pretty strong terms.”
There’s a difference between sucrose and glucose. Corn syrup. Hmmm maybe that’s why they keep saying corn syrup isn’t good for you! LOL Remember the toothpaste with antifreeze in it?
It depends. Why don't you answer my question? It was on point unlike yours.
This is the free market at work. Good for you.
You presumed wrong. I'm talking about the rogue company that imported their peanuts from Argentina/China (last I knew they weren't part of the USA), I guess you didn't READ the article.
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