GOV/MIL Food Shortage? PictSweet?

I have a friend who works for PictSweet, Bells, TN ,see website, http://www.pictsweet.com/ PictSweet is one of the large food processing companies in the U.S. They also have plants in Brownsville, TX, Bridgeville, NJ, Ogden, UT, and Santa Maria, CA. Bells, TN is HQ.

He is a mechanic who has been employed at the Bells, TN plant for several years. He advised me that @ 2-3 weeks ago, 2/3s of the maintenance staff was let go without notice. He also advised that they were told no food would be shipped in the immediate future and PictSweet was having trouble getting certain grains for processing.

He also said that they were told that an U.S. Army General ret, would be the new PictSweet, CEO, shortly. My friend does not yet know the General’s name.

My friend is concerned for his job, and because something does not smell right. He further advised that in the last @ one - two weeks, PictSweet has shipped little food from the Bells, TN location.

I do not know any of this first hand, however I believe my friend. I know little about PictSweet, except that it is a big food processing company.

Anybody know/heard anything more about this?

More than likely, they are having a hard time getting food to process because they are having a hard time getting credit to pay for their shipments. That is the most likely scenario as so many companies with incompetent management have leveraged everything on lines of credit. If you find out otherwise, please let us know.

Somewhere between the venerated "Wall Street" and "Main Street" that our beloved Pollies are so fond of sound biting these days, is an area of town where the farmers and the Pict Sweets of America are fighting for survival. No one on the MSM seems to be discussing the issue of where the real products in America are going to come from if the pipe line closes down for even a little while.

Bakeries, grocery stores, hardware, gas stations, local butchers, who knows how fast and how deep this thing will run.

Our local news stations have all had segments about car dealers laying off and closing down, but very little about the every day places where we purchase items that keep our lives going. There isn't much industry left in the little city where I reside, but I have to wonder what the talk about the water cooler is these days.

A retired ARMY GENERAL will be the new CEO? Shades of Jericho.