In These Times

Latest Comments view all 53

• • 28 Jul 06
  • 7:16 pm

  I have purchased Smithfield meats for some time now, because of the leaness and seeming good quality of their product. I don't have to buy their meats and won't any longer unless I learn that their practices have changed and they are treating their people as well as they treat their product. People deserve to be treated ast well as or better than a piece of meat. It's time we rebelled against the money greedy businesses and show we care about humankind.

  Posted to Processing Pain at Smithfield Foods

• • 30 Jul 06
  • 1:12 pm

  This discussion helped me decide to check on the activities of a meat packing plant back in Northern Indiana. We moved from that locale in '91. There had been a Wilsons meatpacking plant there for years. Hard work but decent pay. It sold and is now an IBP, Iowa Beef Producers actually processes hogs in the area. I researched IBP and found through Wikipedia that it was sold to Tyson but retained the IBP, Inc. name. The reason I bring this up is because IBP wages are dramatically lower than the former Wilson plant; and, when IBP opened up for business …

  Posted to Processing Pain at Smithfield Foods

• • 19 Jun 06
  • 12:18 pm

  Robert Kennedy was asked that same question by Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. I wish I could quote his words and I can't, but I can tell you that I was impressed with his reaction and his response. He did not become defensive. He was fair and non partisan. I can only remember I was satisfied with his answer. I'll have to watch for that on re-runs. I recommend you do so too.

  Posted to Was the Presidential Election Stolen?

• • 25 Jun 06
  • 10:29 am

  Natalie, I think you have your head stuck in the downward position of the rabbit hole. Rabbit is looking out and seeing much more of this world. We'll chalk your view up to convenient conservative tunnel vision. Women not arrested for protest? Lol, though it's dangerous. We have a Carol Fisher in nearby Cleveland Heights, Ohio who is in jail because a cop saw her posting a "World Can't Wait" (for the impeachment of G. W. Bush) on a light pole. She was told to take it down and before she could she was taken-down and cuffed by two burly policemen. …

  Posted to Was the Presidential Election Stolen?

• • 25 Jun 06
  • 3:01 pm

  Ah, who needs war when we have G. W. Bush to bloody our way to peace... or is that pieces? And, as promised, the Iraqis are throwing flowers and cheering us on to murder them more, more... It couldn't get more tragic. Spare us this fairy tale, please!

  Posted to Was the Presidential Election Stolen?