The Stories Project: Oregon Livelihoods Traded Away

Joann Harris Residence: Hermiston, OR Occupation: worked at Simplot Additional Notes: Currently works at Hermiston Fine Foods

Snapshots "Umatilla County, Morrow County, they're both just so dependent on food processing for tons of their money in the country; probably the second-largest income producer is agriculture. The problem that we're seeing is that if Simplot can pick up and leave, then any of them can pick up and leave, ...unfortunately, with the laws that are in place right now, it's pretty easy for them to move overseas. [...]. So what do you imagine if, with NAFA and all these things, if these other big processing plants can move out, what's Hermiston going to do? What would happen if all these big processing plants left?"

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