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color=yellow]"I'm for VI. I like the idea of a bottom up the best but it'll never happen. That leaves the top down version. I like that better than no beef industry in the U.S. which is the likely alternative without VI."[/color]
Red Robin, you made the above statement, and if that were true, a lot of folks could agree..but that is the Poison that we are fed! That is NOT the only options we have! Big business sells that Bull...to the public everyday, and most buy it.
Is there ONE thing that the chicken growers can do to change the economic factors that go into the chicken business? The VI is all for the top. They control what the grower will get (or not get) they control how many chickens will be produced, not the grower. The grower is an employee of Tyson inc. and he has invested way more than Tyson did to get his Job! He has no say so about how he has to spend money on the houses, nor what his profit will be! He will either do as he is told by Tyson or he will lose what ever he has invested ! Will Con-agra bring that same producer some chickens if Tyson refuses him? NOT on your life, it is a regional thing (with few exceptions) a Monolopy...YES...and we just stand by and let them pull that off , year after year......
That is the model the beef industry will be looking at soon, and just because we fall in line does not mean that will keep the packing industry here! If there is more profit in moving to Mexico...well..that is exactly where Big Business will go!
If you doubt this, ask any of the several hundred former employees of Burlington Rugs that are around here. They did get the privilage of training the Mexicans that took their jobs. They were promised that this was NOT a moving of their jobs, just a new plant in Mexico. As soon as the Mexican work force was trained...Guess what?? Right....The Burlington Plant closed! Yes , even here in a "Right to work" state were the wages are very low, they left! They left because they can get even more profit for a while by cheep labor in Mexico! So why would the Packing industry not follow suit, if it was more profitable there?
Retained ownership, co-op growing of cattle and all the other things that are aimed at the growers now, will be used against them later, after the open market has been shut down, and regulated out of existance!
Write that down!
Ross
PS..that ancient chineese secret is struggling to get the stain out of my collar! Rofl