Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork processor, has stopped slaughtering pigs in the United States’ so-called ham capital, where the company was founded 85 years ago.
The end of slaughtering in Smithfield, Virginia, is the latest reconfiguration for the company’s namesake plant and follows a months-long internal review of its East Coast operations, Smithfield Foods said in a statement.
The company, owned by Hong Kong-listed WH Group (0288.HK), is shifting slaughtering to some of its 47 other U.S. facilities and spending $5 million to upgrade the Virginia plant to produce more packaged bacon, ham and other pork products, said Keira Lombardo, chief administrative officer.
Smithfield, Virginia, is a tourist destination based on its history as Smithfield Foods’ hometown and boasts a museum featuring the world’s oldest ham.
Eat Smithfield at your own risk!!!
To recognize the contributions of the hundreds of millions of our porcine cousins who gave their lives so that we could have not only delicious sustenance in many forms, but footballs, hairbrushes and nice steering wheel covers, etc., a huge statue of a hog family should be erected in the town square so that we don’t forget.
China owns it? Wth?
For many years now
Purdue and Tyson will be following suit too. It needs to be hidden from sight, people don’t want to know where meat comes from other than the store.
Smithfield is the worse bacon out there.
They provided food for millions of Americans for years let us be thankful-little lasts that long.
Why are we continuing to sell our large companies a foreign company? That should not be an acceptable practice.
havent bought any of their products since the commies bought it
Clogged arteries waiting to happen !!!
USDA thinks its best if we ship all of our meat to China to be processed and then ship it back to us to eat.
Notice how they want to take off the label where the food comes from