by Shane English | Feb 3, 2016
China is unable to feed itself. Its appetite has grown too large, too fast. Last year, a Chinese company bought Smithfield Foods, the iconic ham brand and America’s largest pork producer in the largest Chinese purchase of an American business. The deal came two...
by Cesar Bustamante | Oct 8, 2014
China is unable to feed itself. Its appetite has grown too large, too fast. Last year, a Chinese company bought Smithfield Foods, the iconic ham brand and America’s largest pork producer in the largest Chinese purchase of an American business. The deal came two...
by calistamacharrie | Feb 19, 2015 |
Smithfield Foods, producer of the iconic holiday ham, was one of America’s flagship food companies, steeped in centuries of U.S. tradition. The Virginia-based pork company derived its ham from a curing process Native Americans taught settlers five centuries ago. It...
by calistamacharrie | Feb 20, 2015 |
As the geopolitics of food heats up, the foreign takeover of America’s largest meat company happened right under the nose of the U.S. government. Our investigation reveals the deep role the Chinese government played in purchasing 1 in 4 pigs raised in America. THIS...
