“If the-wrong people or organization get control, they can spend or give away more money in a short time than I have made in my life, to build monuments unto themselves, for their own financial gains, ego and recognition-- whose heads would swell and hearts would shrink, who would give to those who had plenty and take away from those who had little or none”
- Milton Hershey
They said it would happen eventually...Rumors on the internet have been flying since 2007, and now, it is finally coming to fruition, and it is starting with the York Peppermint Patty plant in Reading Pennsylvania. nearly 300 jobs will go to Monterey, Mexico.
According to WNEP, a local news station of Pennsylvania "...the chocolate maker is closing the plant Friday and moving production to a new factory" over the border.
I find this very disheartening. I see the main plant in Hershey leaving next. With labor cheaper in Mexico and other places across the globe, companies are taking the coward's way out as far as I am concerned and not seeking God to give them their next move. Sad...One of my fondest memories as a child was of the smell of chocolate cooking near the Hershey Stadium on cold November nights while our marching band waited to make our appearance on the field to compete in the Hershey Championships. The smell was comforting to my body as the high school band focused on putting on a great show. We would be nervous, but the chocolate looming in the air was enough to settle us down and relax us.
We must not only be concerned about the jobs that Pennsylvania is losing, but also the standards of food quality as well. It is no big secret that water is a prime component in the melting process and used to clean the equipment. it is also no big secret that bacterium and parasites exist in Mexican water otherwise referred to as "Montezuma's revenge." Furthermore, these parasites and bacterium may not only be contracted in Mexico, but all of Latin America and other developing countries of the world.
I am almost scared to think that there will have to be a warning on the labels of the risk of eating a Hershey bar in the near future...
Is anything pure in this world anymore?
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