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Podcast: News For Reasonable People
Episode: World’s Largest Mozzarella Maker Dumps California: The Real Reason They’re Moving to Texas
Description: A 115-year-old mozzarella empire just packed up and left California for Texas—and honestly, is anyone surprised? Leino Foods, the cheese king behind your Domino's pizza, is shutting down its California plant after decades of sky-high costs, suffocating regulations, and an anti-business climate that's literally decimating communities. Meanwhile, their shiny new 850,000 square-foot Texas facility is already churning out cheese—built in just six years on 260 acres of wide-open land. California can't even keep a cheese factory running, yet Governor Newsom thinks he's ready for 2028. You've got the highest taxes, most regulations, greatest poverty, and the least business-friendly environment in Amer...