[CitizensTruth] Hidden agendas and the new gas "shortage"

[Hal Snyder]

The article cited in Geri's posting is from the April 1 issue of  
Business Week:

There Is No Gas Shortage
But Washington, Wall Street, and ethanol and oil and gas companies  
want you to think there is, says automotive expert Ed Wallace

by Ed Wallace

I guess the main idea of the article is that gasoline reserves are up  
while prices continue to rise, in seeming contradiction to the Law of  
Supply and Demand. Fair enough, we can check that. Meanwhile, pardon  
me for missing the point, but I couldn't help noticing that the  
author mentions one corporate victim of oil price manipulation by  
name, and mentions them twice: Pilgrim's Pride.

I thought I would ask Google: pilgrim's pride factory farming

And here are the first hits:

[PDF] FACTORY FARM OFFENDER
File Format: PDF/Adobe Acrobat - View as HTML
future waste discharges, Pilgrim's Pride requested a 25 percent  
increase in its discharge limit. FACTORY FARM OFFENDER. PILGRIM'S  
PRIDE CORP. ...
www.farmsanctuary.org/mediacenter/ assets/reports/pilgrims.pdf -  
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Over 34000 Call for Pilgrim’s Pride to End Misuse of Antibiotics
May 8, 2006 ... More than 34000 consumers today called on Pilgrim’s  
Pride to stop ... at all factory farms around the country for  
nontherapeutic purposes. ...
www.ucsusa.org/news/press_release/over-34000-call.html - 28k - Cached  
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GoVeg.com // Cruelty to Animals: Mechanized Madness
Animals on today's factory farms have no legal protection from  
cruelty that would be ... Pilgrim's Pride Slaughterhouse ·  
AgriProcessors: Is Cruelty Kosher? ...
www.goveg.com/factoryFarming.asp - 34k - Cached - Similar pages
Tell Pilgrim's Pride to Get Antibiotics Out of Chicken Feed!
Now we need your help to urge Pilgrim’s Pride, the nation’s #2  
chicken producer, ... for the overcrowded and unsanitary conditions  
on animal factory farms. ...
actionnetwork.org/stopsuperbugsnow/ alert-description.tcl? 
alert_id=3738621 - 10k - Cached - Similar pages
Help Secure Basic Protection for Billions of Birds: Sign the ...

I know it's not the issue at hand, but I have to wonder, why is  
writer Ed Wallace so concerned about Pilgrim's Pride? He writes that  
they were even forced to lay off 1,100 employees on March 13. Maybe  
he hasn't noticed the rest of the economy. For example, Motorola  
announced another layoff of 2,600 just today, putting their year-to- 
date total over 10,000.

On Apr 4, 2008, at 1:22 PM, Geri Perry wrote:


> Read carefully and note the connection between food prices and  

> availability: *http://tinyurl.com/2ot5ap*

>

> . . .the Bush administration is protecting those responsible for  

> creating yet another speculative bubble in oil futures, and is  

> protecting investors in the ethanol industry—much to the detriment  

> of food-processing companies such as Pilgrim's Pride. And the net  

> result of all this is that the prices of crude and gasoline rise  

> ever higher thanks to a "shortage" that does not exist, while food  

> costs are soaring thanks in part to the ethanol mandate.

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