Author: Ben Harris Filed under: 2008 Election, Agriprocessors, Kashrut, Religion Tuesday
Aug 26,2008
Presidential hopeful Barack Obama jumped into the fray over Agriprocessors yesterday by slamming the company for hiring underage workers (more on that here). Coming on the eve of the DNC convention in Denver, the comment predictably got a lot of attention. But it followed a far lengthier and more damning appraisal of the company by Iowa governor and fellow Democrat Chet Culver.

Writing Sunday in the Des Moines Register, Culver assailed the company for taking advantage of a failed immigration policy and of “taking the low roadâ€