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To: Elroy who wrote (316381)	12/19/2006 7:03:10 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (3) of 1577816

re: ?? Heard of NAFTA? Of course it can. Get ready to eat some crow! That article was 10 years old... and the meat packing houses are still here, are they not? From your article... Interesting trends in real value-added cost per pound and in input shares have occurred. Real average beef packing costs have risen slightly since 1963, but they have remained fairly stable in the range of about $.05 to $.10 per pound of slaughter weight processed (Melton and Huffman 1995, figure 2). Pork packing has historically had a greater degree of postslaughter processing, with significantly greater average cost per pound of slaughter weight processed than beef. Between 1963 and 1971, real pork packing costs increased from about $.15 to over $.25 per pound of slaughter weight, then fluctuated in a range of about $.20 to $.25 per pound of slaughter weight before beginning a dramatic fall in about 1976. As a result of this nearly $.15 per pound cost decline, average real pork packing costs were nearly 30 percent less in 1988 than 1963 and less than half of their 1971 highs. They ain't going to make the capitol expenditure, and transport the cows and pigs, and their feed, to Mexico to save a nickle a pound in wages... On the other hand... add another dime per pound to the cost of beef and meat packing can become a real middle class job, no need to break the law and hire illegals. Into the hole...

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