Residents of Lexington, Nebraska are panicking after the town's largest employer announced it would be shutting down operations early next year. MS NOW reported Friday from Lexington — the seat of Dawson County, Nebraska, which Trump easily carried with more than 74 percent of the vote last year. Me...
Original title: ‘Catastrophe’: Trump economy kills 1 in 3 jobs in deep-red Nebraska town
It was a meat-packing plant that handles a significant portion of the beef processed in the whole country. Beef that we can’t really export anymore because Trump thinks trade deficit is the same thing as a credit card and RFK is trying to kill us all.
Climate change may have had a hand in the drought, but the proximate cause for this is much more likely Trump’s incompetent trade policy. If Tyson didn’t see a recession coming, they’d likely retooled the plant to something else rather than scuttle the whole thing.
I also read on another thread: many of the plant workers are immigrants and there’s been increasing tension between the workers and the “native” townies. So there’s a decent contingent of town folk who are happy the plant is closing, and think their communities will adjust to living without the plant workers spending their money locally.
Yeah, and growing crops uses up vast swathes of land and tons of water, so what? We’re human and we need food, and we have to pay a price for that. The trick is to balance the benefit with the expense.
You aren’t looking for a solution, you are only interested in promoting your personal agenda, which people here aren’t interested in. If you don’t want to eat meat, that’s your free choice, but your self-righteousness is cringy.
this is depending on poore-nemecek 2018, a dubious source. but even if their efficiency calculations are correct, there is no reason to think the land would not be developed into a more-polluting use
It was a meat-packing plant that handles a significant portion of the beef processed in the whole country. Beef that we can’t really export anymore because Trump thinks trade deficit is the same thing as a credit card and RFK is trying to kill us all.
Climate change may have had a hand in the drought, but the proximate cause for this is much more likely Trump’s incompetent trade policy. If Tyson didn’t see a recession coming, they’d likely retooled the plant to something else rather than scuttle the whole thing.
I also read on another thread: many of the plant workers are immigrants and there’s been increasing tension between the workers and the “native” townies. So there’s a decent contingent of town folk who are happy the plant is closing, and think their communities will adjust to living without the plant workers spending their money locally.
“think” is a rather generous phrasing of what they’re doing.
Please don’t rain on this lib parade with a story of the actual victims.
Yeah, and growing crops uses up vast swathes of land and tons of water, so what? We’re human and we need food, and we have to pay a price for that. The trick is to balance the benefit with the expense.
You aren’t looking for a solution, you are only interested in promoting your personal agenda, which people here aren’t interested in. If you don’t want to eat meat, that’s your free choice, but your self-righteousness is cringy.
If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares
this is depending on poore-nemecek 2018, a dubious source. but even if their efficiency calculations are correct, there is no reason to think the land would not be developed into a more-polluting use