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Fonedork said:
I saw a segment about pig farming in the USA a while ago and the upshot was that Smithfield Farms (Chinese owned) dominates this industry in the US and has been systematically destroying small farmers, and access to healthy pork.
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Not that I buy in this fashion, but my mail gal, who is a friend and neighbor and who lives adjacent to the bottom of our road down the hill...raises pigs and horses with her husband, (a local musician of some note), on their small family farm. How they find the time is anyone's guess with both of them working for the USPS during the day to make ends meet.

I have to admit we buy our pork chops and sausage from the local grocery.
 
Which pistol manufacturers has Glock sent into bankruptcy? HK, Beretta, Sig, S&W, CZ, FN...etc
Are they flooding the market with an inferior and / or unhealthy product?

Do they not all compete for government and private contracts?

I had Glock replace a frame that developed a crack at the mag well after 30 years on a Gen 2 pistol. They asked me for zero dollars, and replaced original mags with new gear for zero dollars. Not a big money maker for them.

While employed by Uncle for 27 years, I was issued Colt, S&W, Steyr, Remington, and eventually Glock firearms. They had to pass rigorous testing, not just underselling the competition. Certainly, price became a consideration between companies which were seen as equally viable.

I don't work in the pork industry, so I can't comment. But I am pretty familiar with firearms, and while there are a plethora of excellent firearms available, Glock has proven to stand by their products in my experience. (That said, no company is without warts, and I am sure that includes many of the aforementioned.)

YMMV.

(I realize it's not a fair comparison because I've not sent any of my pork products back after thirty years...and I've definitely had my share of Smithfield and Johnsonville.)
 
Blues said:
My wife was opining on this today after I was ranting the other day about maple syrup. (I'm currently using raw, unfiltered honey on my waffles / pancakes. Not the same, but healthier than that crap I had been using...(as far as sugar goes).
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I am a big fan of honey. It is my preferred sweetener if I need such.

There is a weird, tangy funk that comes with corn syrup sweeteners. I can't handle them anymore. I stopped drinking soda years ago and along with it, went my sweet tooth as well, I think.
 
Blues said:
Which pistol manufacturers has Glock sent into bankruptcy? HK, Beretta, Sig, S&W, CZ, FN...etc
Are they flooding the market with an inferior and / or unhealthy product?

Do they not all compete for government and private contracts?

I had Glock replace a frame that developed a crack at the mag well after 30 years on a Gen 2 pistol. They asked me for zero dollars, and replaced original mags with new gear for zero dollars. Not a big money maker for them.

While employed by Uncle for 27 years, I was issued Colt, S&W, Steyr, Remington, and eventually Glock firearms. They had to pass rigorous testing, not just underselling the competition. Certainly, price became a consideration between companies which were seen as equally viable.

I don't work in the pork industry, so I can't comment. But I am pretty familiar with firearms, and while there are a plethora of excellent firearms available, Glock has proven to stand by their products in my experience. (That said, no company is without warts, and I am sure that includes many of the aforementioned.)

YMMV.

(I realize it's not a fair comparison because I've not sent any of my pork products back after thirty years...and I've definitely had my share of Smithfield and Johnsonville.)
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Only comparable under the points I made. I was more hoping someone would get the underlying breeding joke since most people don't know about Glock and horses. I've not heard about Smithfield making "unhealthy" pork besides the usual fatty, salty, nitrates/nitrites type talk. As in every doc I've ever had says I should quit bacon. Like that's ever going to happen. No beef with Glock even if all my Glocks were lost in a boating accident years ago.
 
Maximumbob54 said:
Only comparable under the points I made. I was more hoping someone would get the underlying breeding joke since most people don't know about Glock and horses. I've not heard about Smithfield making "unhealthy" pork besides the usual fatty, salty, nitrates/nitrites type talk. As in every doc I've ever had says I should quit bacon. Like that's ever going to happen. No beef with Glock even if all my Glocks were lost in a boating accident years ago.
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