boohoo, AR meat plant is gone.

[Mycoolcats]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23769511

I can say, i really dont feel bad at all for the company loosing a 100 mil building or the 800 employees that now dont have a job there, GET A REAL JOB!

[Matthew]

Divine intervention.

[nogardsram]

I thought this was about an AR (Animal Rights) meat plant... :D

[Blobbenstein]

how the f*** are the omnies guna get their protein now?

[Washoe]

Cannibalism—it's the only choice now (I hear we taste like pork).

[Mr. Sun]

The Cargill Inc.-owned plant, which employs about 800 people and produces more than 2 million pounds of ground beef and steak per week,

WOW! Two million pounds a week!

[hoodedclawjen]

i do feel sad that there might well now be 800 people waking up this morning and not going to work- who are without a lot of other employment choices in their town, many of whom won't have any other skills, education or job prospects, and who are now at risk of loosing their homes and health insurance, and being unable to feed and clothe their families, etc.

that is very sad. its also incredibly sad that we live in a society that veiws meat production, processing, and eating acceptable, and which put people to work in a complex like that in the first place.

while i hope the plant isn't rebuilt, and think it'd be wonderful if all meat plants were put to other more ethically sound uses, i also hope those poor people find new jobs soon- i'd not like to be in their shoes one bit.

[Mycoolcats]

WOW! Two million pounds a week!

Yeah seriously, ONE meat plant does what morninstar or boca or gardenburger does in a year probably.. Theres probably 1000 plants just like this. Is 2 mill a week a "big" plant or are there ones much bigger than this?

Another news article said all of their workers lined up for unemployment at some local baptist church, they dont have state unemployment buildings like in NJ i guess?

Cargill may offer them some compensation package or something, they should give them farewell notice to take a hike, get a real job, give them psychological evaluations and thank them for their years of grunt work hellhole service. Instead of free money, they should get a phone number to an employeer for their next job... but wait, most probably couldnt function in public like at retail type stores.:flush:

[mrosev14]

I thought this was about an AR (Animal Rights) meat plant... :D

Ditto, lol. Whoops.

[FafaFrappy]

most probably couldnt function in public like at retail type stores.:flush:

Wow, how ignorant.

[Shamandura]

lol! AR meat plant....

[hoodedclawjen]

Wow, how ignorant.

i was thinking that.

i have a friend who worked for a while in an abbatoir (mainly hosing blood off the floor with a pressurewasher), and in an egg processing factory (washing crud off eggs).

she is one of the nicest, kindest, most down to earth people i know, a veg*n, but for reasons beyond her control found herself in a situation where she needed a job, ANY job, pronto, and couldn't afford to be picky, and those were sadly all that were on offer.

tarring everyone with the same brush and making assumptions is really compassionate. i sincerely hope you're never desperate and find yourself in an ethical quandry for want of the basic neccesities for your own survival.

[PlaybackGuru]

What poor misguided souls... and Im not talking about the now unemployed.

Carry On!

[bigdufstuff]

Glad no one was injured, but i can't say I feel bad for the people out of money. If you choose a career of animal cruelty you won't get my sympathy when you're out of luck.

[SuperChicken]

Glad no one was injured, but i can't say I feel bad for the people out of money. If you choose a career of animal cruelty you won't get my sympathy when you're out of luck.

I agree. Time to get a job besides murdering. I hope assistance is available to help people do that, but it doesn't break my heart one bit that they can't go in to work and start slitting throats today.

[rainforests1]

Glad no one was injured, but i can't say I feel bad for the people out of money. If you choose a career of animal cruelty you won't get my sympathy when you're out of luck.

I completely agree.

[JennyO]

Glad no one was injured, but i can't say I feel bad for the people out of money. If you choose a career of animal cruelty you won't get my sympathy when you're out of luck.

Not all of those people might have had the choice of what job to take (due to lack of money, education, legal status, experience, etc.). While I don't agree with the meat industry, we can't blame the workers themselves because we don't know the circumstances that brought them there. Not all of us have the privilege of being able to choose our career paths based on our morals and it is very ignorant to assume that just because you work for the meat industry, you are automatically an advocate for the killing of animals.

[Mr. Sun]

Not all of those people might have had the choice of what job to take (due to lack of money, education, legal status, experience, etc.). While I don't agree with the meat industry, we can't blame the workers themselves because we don't know the circumstances that brought them there. Not all of us have the privilege of being able to choose our career paths based on our morals and it is very ignorant to assume that just because you work for the meat industry, you are automatically an advocate for the killing of animals.

It would be interesting to see how many of these workers would be opposed to killing animals for food, though. I doubt it would be more than 1% and is more likely none, ime. I think people get used to the idea of torturing and killing "food" animals so it's not a big deal to them. The people who care about "food" animals would be more likely to find a more suitable job. But, yeah, we don't know for sure.

But... if we were to go to that town and say "here's your new job, torture and kill these dogs and cats" I think a very large portion of them, if not all of them, would turn down the job and would rather move to a new town than to do that.

I don't wish harm on those workers but I do hope that they'll see the light: slaughtering pigs is like slaughtering dogs.

Maybe a new, more peaceful business will set up shop and take advantage of the opportunity to hire these workers.

[Jinga]

Maybe a new, more peaceful business will set up shop and take advantage of the opportunity to hire these workers.

It would be great if that happened. I lived in AR for a few years, and unfortunately most of the people who worked in meat packing plants did so due to lack of other choices. A large percentage of workers (from my experience) were immigrants with few resources and limited english. They were doing jobs no one else wanted to do because it was one of the few things people in the area would hire them for. I'm by no means upset about the potential decrease of meat being produced, but do sincerely hope that the families effected find other means of providing for themselves ASAP.

[chocsoymilk]

Maybe a new, more peaceful business will set up shop and take advantage of the opportunity to hire these workers.

Sadly it's a lot more likely the plant will be rebuilt within 6 months and the workers re-hired and back to firing the bolt gun.

I agree that most (if not all) people who slaughter animals for a living do so without even realizing the animals are living beings. Those who do are probably driven out of the business pretty quickly due to it being so gruesome.

I also agree that in AR where only 19% of adults have graduated from college (number 5 from the bottom in all states) the opportunities for jobs are pretty thin. I'm sure most of the people that worked in that slaughterhouse did so because it was the only steady employment available to them.

[JennyO]

I'm by no means upset about the potential decrease of meat being produced, but do sincerely hope that the families effected find other means of providing for themselves ASAP.
:yes:

PS-sorry if my first post was a little angry/harsh, I just saw some of the original posts and it got me worked up.

[Jinga]

:yes:

PS-sorry if my first post was a little angry/harsh, I just saw some of the original posts and it got me worked up.

Unless you deleted a post, I don't think you've posted anything harsh in this thread. No worries.

[Kiz]

I thought this was about an AR (Animal Rights) meat plant... :D


I'm not sure what else AR stands for here on VB. "Another ruddy"? "Awfully redundant?" Man... sometimes internet acronyms get confusing.

[Wolfie]

Arkansas.

[Savannah]

Yeah seriously, ONE meat plant does what morninstar or boca or gardenburger does in a year probably.. Theres probably 1000 plants just like this. Is 2 mill a week a "big" plant or are there ones much bigger than this?

Another news article said all of their workers lined up for unemployment at some local baptist church, they dont have state unemployment buildings like in NJ i guess?

Cargill may offer them some compensation package or something, they should give them farewell notice to take a hike, get a real job, give them psychological evaluations and thank them for their years of grunt work hellhole service. Instead of free money, they should get a phone number to an employeer for their next job... but wait, most probably couldnt function in public like at retail type stores.:flush:

maybe you might want to develop some empathy to go along with the chat board bravado. seriously dude, when people lose jobs during a recession, moms, dads, kids suffer. it is one thing to be happy that a meat plant is no longer functioning, it is quite another to diss the people that lose jobs. your tude is out of touch.