From Washington Examiner.com (June 14):
A vegan food manufacturer that uses socialist-inspired branding laid off all its production employees without warning or severance.
No Evil Foods, which is based in North Carolina and claims that it uses “food as a force for good,” announced the layoffs to workers on Friday. Employees expressed anger and shouted, “Screw all of y’all” and “f*** you!” after Drew Pollick, the head of human resources, told them that the company will not be paying them past Friday, according to audio obtained by HuffPost.
“The reality of the situation is the company has essentially run out of money, and we’re now really forced to make some really big, really difficult changes,” CEO Mike Woliansky said to the workers. “It’s coming down to whether or not there will be a No Evil at all.”
Woliansky confirmed that the company fired all remaining production staff in a statement. He said that instead of having in-house manufacturing, the company would shift to a co-packing manufacturer.
“Our goal is to be a significant force for good in the food system with environmentally sustainable, socially conscious, plant-based foods,” the CEO said. “For a company of our size to survive in the hyper-competitive marketplace, the co-manufacturing model will be required going forward.”
The company touts itself as a business that brings people closer to the origins of their food “while addressing issues like food insecurity, economic justice, and climate change,” according to No Evil Foods’s website. Some of the faux meat the company sells is branded with socialist themes such as “Comrade Cluck” and “El Zapatista,” apparently named for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a far-left revolutionary political and militant group in Mexico. [read more]
No Evil Foods? I guess laying off workers for no good reason and without warning is not evil. Hmmm. Then again the Left doesn’t care about individuals—just groups or some fuzzy concepts that don’t make sense.
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