In November 2021, a New Yorker article described how a major grain trader got away with passing off non-organic corn and soybeans as “organic” for years, making millions in the process. (Read it here.) What’s striking about that story is how easy it was, how porous the certificatio[...]
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January 20th, 2023 - 7:33 pm § in Business
Oklahoma pork plant fired worker, then called cops who killed him
Guymon, Oklahoma, is a town in the dusty Oklahoma panhandle. It was a dying town until the pork plant came in the 1990s. In 2014, an Oklahoma newspaper gushed (here), “On the northeast corner of town, cradled by a cluster of dilapidated trailer homes, sits a business that many credit for start[...]
Airliner of the future
The strut wing design has less drag, making it more fuel-efficient. Read story here. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]
January 15th, 2023 - 3:00 pm § in Business
Food industry corruption
The world is full of people trying to rip you off, and food manufacturers are no exception. You, like the rest of us, have experienced half-empty packages (their excuse is always “it settled,” but in reality they’re suckering you into paying big-package prices for small-package con[...]
Was it worth it? (nsfw)
Jonathan Reeser used to manage day-to-day operations, including supervising employees, at Patients Choice Laboratories in Indianapolis. Emboldened by a sense of either self-righteousness or impunity, or perhaps a generous helping of both, he tweeted the message at left to Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) u[...]
The right’s war against “woke” is based on a discredited 1941 book
And Elon Musk is its knight in shining armor. The book, by James Burnham (1905-1987; bio here), a New York University academic and political theorist, is “The Managerial Revolution: What Is Happening in the World” (you can get it here). Nearly all of Burnham’s sweeping predictions [...]
November 27th, 2022 - 3:14 pm § in Business
Why workers aren’t loyal to companies anymore
In the old days, a young man could graduate from high school, get a job in a factory, support a wife and five kids, and had a job for life as long as he showed up and did the work. That was before Wall Street financiers bought and sold companies like trading cards, Reagan broke […][...]
DeSantis gives free pass to hotels aiding sex traffickers
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration “has declined to issue fines after over 14,000 violations of a sex trafficking law by Florida hotels and lodging establishments,” Raw Story reported on Sunday, November 20, 2022 (see story here). “An investigation published on Sunday [...]