31.   The biggest employers are U.S. Sugar in Clewiston and several orange packing plants.

32.   The majority goes to the East Coast, to Florida and California, said Al Strube, whose packing plant is in Rowena, Texas.

33.   The packing plants render the carcasses and ship them to the butchers and grocers who trim the meat to fit our plates.

34.   The processing plant where government records show the most missed safety checks was a huge west Texas beef packing plant operated by Monfort Inc.

35.   Their packing plant is outside the town limits, ungoverned by town laws, untaxed, which rankles the locals.

36.   This year, the few peaches that hang from the trees are marble-sized, no workers are in the orchards, and the packing plant is idle.

37.   Thousands of new workers moved in to work the vegetable fields and the packing plants.

38.   Three convicts working at a prison packing plant had cut holes in three pig hides and crawled inside, and rode out with the trailer load of hides.

39.   We were taken to the offices of the local broccoli packing plant for morning tea and goodies before we headed out to the fields.

40.   Why bother, when any extra profit for quality would be swallowed by the packing plant or the grocer?