Last year, amid a hog fever outbreak in China, Smithfield shifted production in at least one U.S. plant to accommodate the Chinese market. The company did so with the knowledge that the move could create a shortage in the United States in 2020. Smithfield’s director of raw materials procurement, Arnold Silver, told an industry conference in late 2019 that sales to China could eventually create bacon and ham shortages for U.S. consumers.
WH Group, eh? Does the WH stand for Wuhan?
“Arnold Silver, told an industry conference in late 2019 that sales to China could eventually create bacon and ham shortages for U.S. consumers.”
Lesson learned: There are consequences when a nation outsources is domestic manufacturing and allows foreign corporations to control the food supply.
Sadly, the United States could not fight World War II today.
Only recently learned Smithfield was sold to Chinese. I had bought a small smithfield ham for Easter. Never buying another Smithfield product again. They used to be well known in VA.
Smithfield used to have a very good reputation for the quality of their products. Then, they were acquired by the Chinese in 2013. Even though their products are produced in the US, I have avoided anything with the Smithfield name for quite awhile.
ya, nobody wants to mention that China bought Smithfield several years back.
As someone else posted elsewhere, these visits from CCP officials occurred after flights from China were stopped. How did these visits then happen?
Gov. Noem was on with Laura last night and said the plant would have been open regardless of not having a stay-home order because it is critical food infrastructure.
No problem, I'm sure China will be eager to share all the details and information in a fully transparent way, they are handling this so well, at lest that's what the media is telling us.
What did the CCP rep spray in the air or on the workspace while he was there ???
Maybe POTUS should shut down travel from China
A China-owned pork processor announced Sunday that it’s shutting down a South Dakota plant indefinitely after employees were infected with coronavirus, noting that the nation’s grocers are under severe stress.
Smithfield Foods announced the shutdown as government officials keep lockdowns in place across the country amid an ebbing coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 20,000 people in the United States. China’s WH Group purchased the company in 2013 for $4.7 billion.
Chinese investors and firms own a majority of almost 2,400 American companies employing 114,000 people, about the same number as the combined U.S. staffs of Google, Facebook and Tesla, according to data from MacroPolo.
Why it matters: Chinese trade and investment are among the most divisive topics in the U.S., and a focus of Trump administration threats to crack down against Beijing. MacroPolo’s map appears to be the first open-source, county-by-county study of every majority-owned Chinese company in the U.S. — $56 billion worth.
https://www.axios.com/working-for-china-1515542281-d4bc0ab4-bed6-4085-a26e-c5d7c66be74c.html
Another key asset in America sabotaged to create panic.
If China keeps this up some folks are gonna refuse to unload those big shipping container ships....