[Chaos-l] [Medoc-mountain-men] Interesting Article About Moore County on CBS News

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They do pretty well with the pottery stuff too - lots of small mom and
pop pottery studios over there that do well.
But not really capable of absorbing/employing hundreds of out of work
chicken processing folks.

You can blame a lot of that on our current energy policy.  When we
started using corn for making ethanol for car fuel, it drove the price
of corn through the roof.  That then drove the price of animal feed up
to the point that most chicken and cattle producers couldn't afford
it.  A lot of the cattle folks switched over to other feed sources,
but the poultry industry isn't as nimble and got clobbered.  Just
Google Pilgrims Pride for a better and more detailed story of how the
whole thing blew up.

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