Tennessee town welcomed Tyson Foods plant after
residents of Kansas town revolted, by
Ann Corcoran, 1/8/18
For those of you following news
about BIG MEAT, here is a story you need to read in its entirety at the Tennessee Star (hat
tip: Joanne).
Citizens of small town America are beginning to understand that the
arrival of a BIG MEAT plant will change their towns forever, and they don’t
like it!
We told you about the town of
Humboldt, TN welcoming a new Tyson Foods plant promoted by Tennessee governor
Haslam and Senator “Little Bob” Corker here in early December, but this is fascinating news. And, it is so exciting to see investigative
reporting at its finest!
Tennessee Star: The decision by Tyson Foods to open a meat-packing plant in
Humboldt, Tennessee, welcomed recently by Gibson County Mayor Tom Witherspoon,
came only after the facility was rejected by citizens in Tonganoxie, Kansas.
The “big
meat” company would have created approximately the same 1,500 jobs
there that it says it will bring to rural Gibson County.
Reuters reported in
November 2017 that the decision by Tyson Foods to switch over to Humboldt came
only after “the No Tyson in Tongie” citizen-led opposition defeated a proposed
Tyson plant in Tonganoxie, Kansas, a town not much smaller than Humboldt. Several Kansas state legislators also committed to
opposing the proposed Tyson plant.
Citizen opposition in Tonganoxie, KS
was “staggering”
Citizen opposition in the “Tongie”
area was described as “staggering,” Twilight Greenaway reported at Moyers &
Company, the website operated by far left journalist Bill Moyers.
That opposition was fueled in part
by the secrecy in which the deal was arranged between Tyson executives and
local officials until it was finally made public in September,
Greenaway’s accounting of the “No Tyson in Tongie” defeat of Tyson
Foods acknowledged that the issue of “new comers” arriving for meat-packing
jobs also concerned residents. Greenaway notes that “most meat processing
plants are now staffed almost entirely by immigrant and refugee populations
from places like Somalia, Latin America and South Asia.”
For any of you concerned about your
heartland towns and what BIG MEAT will bring, please read the whole
story, here.
“The Jungle” here we come!
See my archive entitled
‘meatpackers’ here. I also have many posts on Tyson Foods. Don’t miss this one where we learned that Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service (one
of the nine federal contractors supplying cheap labor to meatpackers) has a
sweet deal with Tyson.
Comments
Trump
needs to cut the welfare subsidies for refugees and immigrants.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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