By Lisa M. Keefe
“Friends, family and supporters of Agriprocessors and the Rubashkin family” are behind a new Web site, Agrifacts.info, which says it provides the general public with information about the company that allows the reader to decipher fact from fiction and encourages an educated opinion on the matter.
The home page says, “This site cites real people, real facts, and accurate information about Iowa’s Agriprocessors.”
In May, the Agriprocessors plant in Postville, Iowa was raided by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agents. Nearly 400 employees were detained as undocumented workers; most pleaded guilty to identity theft and fraud and are serving a short prison sentence before being deported. Several hundred more never returned to work after the raid. In August, the state of Iowa alleged several child labor law violations at the plant.
The company has since named a new CEO Bernard S. Feldman and hired a New York public relations firm.
Saying that the media has been “flexible with the facts” and the evidence has been “distorted,” the site promises to post testimonials from people who “live and work” in Postville.
– Meatingplace.com
im no fan of thiers but i just read the new webpage…..
how enlightening…. they may not be the monsters afterall??
only question….what took them so long to put up the web page…they did start convincing me………
Mr. who to believe, u must be an anti semite jew hater -all the rubashkins want to do is give thier side of the story after all the media is just bashing them all the time- give them a chance- no glaich a frashk- u must be a very unhappy human bieng!!
why should anyone believe what the rubashkin’s have to say if it has been proven otherwise by the government officials, inspectors, and the media? It’s very easy to change the conditions to be legal and good for workers AFTER the fact and claim that that’s how it always was.
good luck to the rubashkin family. the media was not fair to them throughout this whole story.
I wish them all the best.