Tag Archives: piggies

Butchertown, JBS Swift & Beyond

November 18, 2009 – 1:18 pm

Since that much ballyhooed “confrontation” between Louisville Metro’s Board of Zoning Adjustments and JBS/Swift never happened (Sorry, Chase Cain), and the facts themselves have become a tad bit convoluted, here’s a link to BrokenSidewalk.com, which has been covering the ongoing struggle between the Butchertown neighborhood and their stinkiest resident better than any other local media. [...]

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Swift (Non)Expansion Update

October 7, 2009 – 4:00 pm

Chandler Keys, a spokesperson for JBS USA/Swift, has contacted LEO to deflate rumors that his company has plans to augment slaughtering facilities in the Butchertown neighborhood. “We have no plans for expanding our Louisville plant,” he said in a phone interview, adding that the planned Marshalltown, IA, distribution center isn’t reflective of a broader effort [...]

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JBS/Swift Rumored to Expand (Again?)

October 6, 2009 – 11:20 am

JBS/Swift & Company may be augmenting its swine slaughtering empire in Louisville, so suggests an article in the Central Iowa Times-Republican. Regarding its multi-million dollar expansion in Marshalltown, IA: According to General Manager Troy Mulgrew, the refrigeration warehouse would range up to 150,000 square feet and enlist several employment positions, although he would not speculate on [...]

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Swift v. Butchertown, Part 46

October 1, 2009 – 4:01 pm

Or so it would seem with this latest news from the ongoing struggle between Butchertown and their pig-slaughtering, illegally-expanding neighbor, JBS USA, aka Swift, aka The Stinkiest Goddamn Place in all of Louisville. Via the C-J: The Butchertown Neighborhood Association wants to postpone a hearing set for Monday on revoking a permit that allows JBS [...]

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How To Not Contract Swine Flu

April 27, 2009 – 7:44 am

Put down that breakfast pork sandwich, friend, and listen up: (1) Don’t go to Mexico any time soon, even though it’d be super cheap right now… unless you happen to be our crazy-ass President, in which case don’t wash your hands until they’ve shook Kim Jong-Il’s. (2) Don’t eat the sweet, delicious pork. But if [...]

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