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Fresh Pork Production at Smithfield Foods
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Hog Production at Smithfield Foods
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Smithfield Plantation
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China's Shineway Eats up Smithfield Foods in $4.7 Billion Deal
The US's largest pork processor, Smithfield Foods Inc. has agreed to be purchased by Chinese company Shuanghui International for a massive $4.7 billion US dollars. If approved by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), the deal would be the biggest takeover of a US firm by a Chinese one. Already there are words of caution. China's pork industry isn't famed for safety, and the purchase will also mean that Smithfield Foods will be handing over their precious know-how to a foreign competitor. Watch NTD's Chris Chappell and Karen Chang as they digest this takeover bid.
Undercover at Smithfield Foods (2012 Webby Award Winner)
An investigator from The Humane Society of the United States documented the suffering endured by female breeding pigs held in severely restrictive gestation crates on a factory farm operated by a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer.
Scrutiny Needed of Smithfield Sale to Shuanghui
This week, the Senate Agriculture Committee held a hearing to examine the proposed purchase of Smithfield foods by Shuanghui, a Chinese food company. Senators heard both positive and negative testimony about the deal from several different experts. I have reservations about the sale but there are benefits with this proposed purchase. I'll be paying close attention to this deal as it continues to be scrutinized by Congress and the various oversight agencies.
Romania: US pork producer giant causes local farmers problems
REPORT: In Romania, local farmers had high hopes when top US pork producer Smithfield Foods decided to invest in the country, near the town of Timisoara. But two years later, it only seems to have caused sanitary and health problems.
US meat company awaits for Chinese takeover
The world's largest producer and processor of pork, Smithfield, has agreed to sell to China's biggest meat company.
The deal, which is subject to approval by company stockholders and regulators from both countries, would be the largest purchase of a US company.
Residents and workers of Smithfield, in the US state of Virginia, are keeping a wait-and-see attitude towards the $4.7bn possible deal by the Chinese company, Shuanghuai International Holdings.
Al Jazeera's Tom Ackerman reports from Smithfield.
Getting Virginia Moving Again
Smithfield Foods | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
Smithfield Foods
00:02:34 1 Company profile
00:02:43 1.1 History
00:05:34 1.2 Mergers and acquisitions
00:07:36 1.3 Purchase by Shuanghui Group
00:09:29 1.4 Employees, brands
00:10:15 1.5 Lobbying
00:10:34 2 Pig production
00:10:43 2.1 Vertical integration, contract farms
00:12:40 2.2 Housing and lagoons
00:13:51 2.3 Pregnant sows
00:16:18 3 Environmental and animal-welfare record
00:16:29 3.1 Emissions
00:19:09 3.2 Operations in Mexico
00:20:51 3.3 Packaging reduction
00:21:41 3.4 Use of antibiotics
00:22:33 3.5 2006 CIWF investigation
00:23:36 3.6 2010 HSUS investigation
00:25:33 3.7 Lawsuits
00:27:32 4 Legal and labor issues
00:27:41 4.1 Working conditions
00:29:01 4.2 Union dispute
00:30:45 4.3 Justice Department penalty
00:31:11 5 Medical supplies
00:31:45 6 Philanthropy and sponsorship
00:31:55 6.1 Smithfield Foundation
00:32:46 6.2 Sports sponsorships
00:33:34 7 See also
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Smithfield Foods, Inc., is a meat-processing company and wholly owned subsidiary of WH Group of China. Founded in 1936 as the Smithfield Packing Company in Smithfield, Virginia, by Joseph W. Luter and his son, the company is the largest pig and pork producer in the world. In addition to owning over 500 farms in the United States, Smithfield contracts with another 2,000 independent farms around the country to grow Smithfield's pigs. Outside the U.S., the company has facilities in Mexico, Poland, Romania, Germany and the UK. Globally the company employed 50,200 in 2016 and reported an annual revenue of $14 billion. Its 973,000-square-foot meat-processing plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina, was reported in 2000 to be the world's largest, processing 32,000 pigs a day.Then known as Shuanghui Group, WH Group purchased Smithfield Foods in 2013 for $4.72 billion, more than its market value. It was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company to date. The acquisition of Smithfield's 146,000 acres of land made WH Group, headquartered in Luohe, Henan province, one of the largest overseas leasers of American farmland.Smithfield Foods began its growth in 1981 with the purchase of Gwaltney of Smithfield, followed by the acquisition of nearly 40 companies between then and 2008, including Eckrich; Farmland Foods of Kansas; John Morrell; Murphy Family Farms of North Carolina; Circle Four Farms of Utah; and Premium Standard Farms. The company was able to grow as a result of its highly industrialized pig production, confining thousands of pigs in large barns known as concentrated animal feeding operations, and controlling the animals' development from conception to packing.As of 2006 Smithfield raised 15 million pigs a year and processed 27 million, producing over six billion pounds of pork and, in 2012, 4.7 billion gallons of manure. Killing 114,300 pigs a day, it was the top pig-slaughter operation in the United States in 2007; along with three other companies, it also slaughtered 56 percent of the cattle processed there until it sold its beef group in 2008. The company sells its products under several brand names, including Cook's, Eckrich, Gwaltney, John Morrell, Krakus, and Smithfield. Kenneth M. Sullivan became the president and chief executive officer in 2015.
Smithfield Foods merges with Chinese group
Smithfield Foods merges with Chinese group
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Smithfield Foods sale approved
Smithfield Foods sale approved
China, Smithfield and the Global Meat Industry
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The largest Chinese meat producer, Shuanghui International, has announced it will purchase the United States' largest pork producer, Smithfield Foods Incorporated. This purchase is the latest in a series of actions over the last decade that more closely tie together global meat producing countries and companies. China is the world's largest consumer of pork, and its government increasingly supports the U.S. model of factory style animal raising (including limited breeds and antibiotic use) for scaling up meat production and addressing food safety issues. Experts predict rising meat and dairy demand in China. What do these shifts mean for meat and dairy production in China, the U.S., and the world? What does it mean for health, the environment and rural communities?
IATP's Jim Harkness and Shefali Sharma have just returned from China, where they met with government, industry, academic and NGO representatives tracking the meat industry—and visited pig and poultry farms. Jim Harkness is the president of IATP and lived in China for 16 years. Shefali Sharma has been following global agriculture and trade issues for more than a decade. IATP is currently investigating the global meat industry, particularly the intersections between companies in the U.S., China and Brazil.
HRI Movers; Turkey Production Forecast; Smithfield Packing To Close Plant
Movers of the week from our commodity publication HRI Buyer's Guide; The US turkey industry is using caution after the USDA's latest 2013 turkey production; Smithfield Packing to consolidate bone-in ham production and close Landover, Maryland plant; Sponsored by Urner Barry's Seafood Posters
A Cut Above | West Virginia Uncovered
Dick Campbell has worked at Campbell's Market for almost his entire life -- in fact, he was born in the upstairs apartment. Dick's father established the market in 1946 in order to provide the people of Beverly, W.Va. with quality meats. His father also built a slaughterhouse in order to eliminate the middleman and ensure the quality from start to finish.
Aside from his time in the U.S. Navy from 1968 to 1972, Dick worked at Campbell's Market on and off until officially taking over the business with his brother, Ed Campbell, in 1978.
When his brother retired in 2001, Dick continued to keep the family-owned business running to serve the customers.
It's been 10 years since my brother retired and I think that would be my proudest moment, knowing I could keep it open and maintain the quality and faithful customers we've had here for years, some even my father had, he said.
Virginia Hard Cider
October is wine month in Virginia, and 2008 promises to be a very good year. Sherri McKinney reports orchard owners are hoping to revive a traditional Virginia beverage – hard cider.
South of the James Farmer's Market Richmond VA 11-8-14 Part 2
Check out this vendor tour of a lively market with great music, food, and crafts, all arranged by GrowRVA. Too early for a beer tent! Filmed by Brooke Saunders, music by Markiss Blowfish.
Inside the slaughterhouse. Undercover investigation in spanish slaughterhouses.
Modern slaughterhouses have been designed to take the highest number of animal lives, as fast as possible. Industrialised animal slaughter is a huge business, and some of these factories —which are becoming increasingly technological and are using equipment’s ever more modern and specialised—, take thousands of animals to their deaths every day. The slaughterhouse owned by Grupo Jorge, Le Porc Gourmet, kills 13,000 pigs a day; Veravic, owned by the society Ibergallus, 80,000 chickens; Faccsa has recently initiated formalities to build a slaughterhouse in Andalusia with the capacity to kill up to 40,000 pigs. These are some of the highest production rate slaughterhouses within the Spanish State, and they help us get an approximate idea of the industry’s exploitation and extermination pace.
Between November 2016 and October 2018, I gained access into 16 slaughterhouses in the Spanish State. Inside them, I was able to document the slaughter of cows, pigs, lambs, chickens, and rabbits.
The material I’m including in my investigation is aimed to show —as opposed to the meat industry’s obscurantism and propaganda— the institutional and systematic violence suffered by animals in slaughterhouses. It provides relevant information for the debate that, promoted by the anti-speciesist movement, questions the legitimacy of animal exploitation and advocates for its abolition.
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(*) Part of the investigation has been carried out in collaboration with NOR, an association against speciesism.