Another bankruptcy costs 500 jobs in this small town.

[Obamanaut]

Pilgrim's Pride declared bankruptcy recently, with the processing plant here being the county's largest employer.

Not only will 500 jobs be lost, but cutbacks in the chicken processing will adversely affect the farmers who grow the chickens.

http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/36706289.html

<snip>Live Oak's largest employer is forced to get rid of many of its employees, which residents say will greatly affect the entire rural community.

Hundreds of employees will return to work at Pilgrim's Pride in Live Oak after their holiday break, only to be given a permanent break soon after
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A company spokesperson says the plant is eliminating about 505 jobs.
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Pilgrim's Pride is Live Oak's largest employer. Residents say cutting more than 500 of the plant's 1,400 jobs will have a devastating chain reaction
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[elifino]

1. Same thing in Carrollton, Ga.

About the same number of people involved.

[MercutioATC]

2. I'd have expected Pilgrim's Pride to do well in this economy.

Their stuff isn't exactly cheap, but long-term storage prep food sales have been booming for the past few years.

[dems_rightnow]

3. The "Eat mor chikin" campaign has failed

Damn Chick-Fil-A!

[Ron Green]

4. A criminal operation

founded by Bo Pilgrim, who as I recall was caught handing out envelopes full of cash on the floor of the Texas House of Representatives. An industrial food processor whose ilk should permanently disappear from our national landscape.

I'm sorry for the employees. They, and we, ought to all be involved in a better food system.

[dems_rightnow]

5. Not true

He handed out checks. :-)