New threads at FPIDG

Big Apple and Luis have been active again on the Fresh Produce Industry Discussion Group overnight.Here are some threads they just put up. Come join the party if you are not a member.

Agriprocessors' big faces long stretch for harboring illegal - Big Apple
With the arrest of the former chief executive, Sholom Rubashkin, federal authorities extended their criminal prosecution to the highest level of management at the plant.

Could a City Prohibit Selling Food to an Illegal Alien? - Luis

Attorney Omar C. Jadwat of the ACLU's Immigrants' Rights Project in New York said Munley had correctly concluded that Hazleton's ordinance would interfere with the enforcement scheme chosen by Congress which calls for the strictest enforcement only at the borders. "It's not up to the states to choose an iron fist where Congress has chosen a velvet glove," Jadwat said.

Merced man cracks pistachio problem - Luis

His young daughter, Anahita, helped him discover it when they were trying to dry some of the pistachios that Foroutan grows. The nuts were raw and she thought they should put them in the microwave. When they came out, the shells had opened on their own and Foroutan had discovered a new way to crack nuts. He and his daughter patented the
process.

Grocery stores/food budgets are shrinking - Luis