Smithfield Foods, announced the Farmer John’s meatpacking plant in Vernon will close early next year. The Virginia-based company said that this step is necessary due to “the escalating cost of doing business in California.”
Meanwhile, workers at the plant would not speak on record about the closing, but one employee, who gave his name only as Omar, said Smithfield Foods had described an “all hands on deck” meeting Thursday morning, and employees were instructed not to talk to the news media.
Herman Valle, who works across the street at the Green Olive Mediterranean restaurant on Soto Street, will be relieved to be done with the “terribly strong” odor he attributed to the plant. Agustín Álvarez, manager of the adjacent El Primo Mexican diner, was less certain the plant is responsible for the stench.
For many Angelenos though, the loss may be anticlimactic. Many are still reeling from the decision at the end of the 2019 Dodger season by Smithfield not to renew its contract with the team in blue.and fans lost a familiar brand made even more famous by the legendary voice that hawked it. When Leslie A. Grimes lifted his paintbrush outside the Clougherty meatpacking plant in 1957, the city was more tolerant of its less than delicate industries.Close by the Los Angeles River, this overlooked stretch of the city was straight out of “The Jungle,” Upton Sinclair’s muckraking look at the meatpacking industry in Chicago. But Grimes’ portrait was decidedly less scathing.
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