Or the dictator. Or something to that effect.
Please do take a moment to click back on the previous blog entry, and read the comments.
Pay as much heed to Greg's demands as you like, to, as he puts it-"shut the fuck up and be nice". Oh and make sure you pay homage to the man who "saved agriculture in the state" while you're at it *cough cough*
Followed by another obfuscation, allegedly posted by the MMM&S plant manager. As the more public face of MMM&S, Shannon also posted on social media a screed referencing members of the ag community as "disreputable", and naming this blog author and another by name.
Really, this is how you promote your business? Take public sideswipes at your customer base? Is that saving ag? Why no, it is not. But the overblown response is as puzzling as it is amusing. All that was done was to put together two *public* notices, of current sales prices (as of that date) at MMM&S. And note that the advertised prices seriously undercut local Alaska raised, fed, and Alaska born livestock from other producers. Which is true, and they know it.
They know because they cannot afford to do it themselves, and stay competitive. Not even with a feedlot masquerading as a "ranch", not with direct slaughter imports, not with any method. So how are they offering these amazing prices? Why, one only needs to look at their published processing rates to see the likely source of their "savings".
Ag was not "saved" by the purchase of that plant. Was it helpful? Of course, we all know that continuity of that facility is paramount to livestock producers. But there are alternatives, other USDA plants that could have been used if absolutely necessary, or people could have gone back to custom exempt sales easily enough-and foregone the retail package sales altogether. That said, the above attitude and way of doing business are just two reasons that Denali Meat Company invested in a mobile slaughter plant, and that the one at Pt MacKenzie exists today.
Sometimes, having a monopoly is not as advantageous as one would think.
3 comments:
I think everybody should have to sign an affidavit to the affect if there animals are Alaska Grown or Canada Imported this would weed out the bait and switch tatics that Mikes Meats and Butcher Block 9 and MMM&S do very regular what Shannon forgot to tell everybody is the Big grocery store chains have these afidavits from the Feedlots to the Packing plants to the Stores. They can't say something if it's not true.
To bad the criminals that run the place can barely maintain the paperwork enough that the USDA doesn’t just shut them down. They wouldn’t be able to maintain proper records if they had to do the affidavits.
They also make much more money on the bait and switch no reason to stop now.
Totally agree but the afidavits would hold everybody's feet to the fire! Not just one but ALL! I think then the false advertising and not knowing if your buying heifer or steer or old cow meat would STOP completely. The pricing would come into line on products and playing field leveled. Then the little kingdom affect Mike's Meats and Butcher Block 9 and Mugragre Farms aka Misty Mountain Canadian imports would then have to tell the truth what they marketed each week and not what they mixed in everyday from what was imported and was actually Alaska Grown. Food for Thought for All producers to take to the powers that be in Junea and the DOA who says they care about Ag in Alaska.
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