Kitchen

[novamc1]

@Mominohio 

This might not relieve your concerns about eating food from a Chinese-owned American-based company such as Smithfield, but we do have federal food regulation standards and federal meat inspectors who are supposed to protect our food supply.

If we imported the pork from China, yes, I'd wonder about the quality of the food and the integrity behind its safety.  I suppose our federal inspectors would be on the job at airports and shipping ports to prevent tainted or inferior foods from entering the U.S.--we would hope!

[MorningLover]

Some info on this topic..

Smithfield is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong based WH Group Limited, a publicly traded company with shareholders around the world. 

Smithfield Foods, Inc., a U.S. based global food company and the world’s largest pork processor and producer. They are a global consumer packaged goods and protein company. In 2018, sales exceeded $15 billion.

They are the leader in numerous packaged meats categories with popular brands including Smithfield®, Eckrich®, Nathan’s Famous®, Farmland®, Armour®, Farmer John®, Kretschmar®, John Morrell®, Cook’s®, Gwaltney®, Carando®, Margherita®, Curly’s®, Healthy Ones®, Morliny®, Krakus®, and Berlinki®.

Their products are sold to more than 5,700 customers in 43 countries on every continent (except Antarctica), including supermarket and hotel chains, wholesale distributors, restaurants, hospitals, and other institutions.They also sell to companies that further process their meats into consumer food products.

"We are committed to providing good food in a responsible way and maintaining robust animal care, community involvement, employee safety, environmental, and food safety and quality programs."

[sidsmom]

Sometimes the most gross actions come from within.

Pork Industries Self Regulation.

Inspectors warn us...this is not a wise move. 
A lawsuit is in place to stop this process. 

Let's take an already dirty process (animal slaughter) and 

speed up the lines & have fewer inspectors. 

What

Could

Go

Wrong???

[Marp]

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@MorningLover wrote:

Some info on this topic..

Smithfield is a wholly owned subsidiary of Hong Kong based WH Group Limited, a publicly traded company with shareholders around the world. 

Smithfield Foods, Inc., a U.S. based global food company and the world’s largest pork processor and producer. They are a global consumer packaged goods and protein company. In 2018, sales exceeded $15 billion.

They are the leader in numerous packaged meats categories with popular brands including Smithfield®, Eckrich®, Nathan’s Famous®, Farmland®, Armour®, Farmer John®, Kretschmar®, John Morrell®, Cook’s®, Gwaltney®, Carando®, Margherita®, Curly’s®, Healthy Ones®, Morliny®, Krakus®, and Berlinki®.

Their products are sold to more than 5,700 customers in 43 countries on every continent (except Antarctica), including supermarket and hotel chains, wholesale distributors, restaurants, hospitals, and other institutions.They also sell to companies that further process their meats into consumer food products.

"We are committed to providing good food in a responsible way and maintaining robust animal care, community involvement, employee safety, environmental, and food safety and quality programs."

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In addition to the information contained herein have those opposed to eating any food imported from China taken U.S. produced food products using ingredients imported from China into consideration?  Think common ingredients like spices (especially garlic), corn, mushrooms, edamame/soybeans and many, many more.

[novamc1]

@Marp 

You said.......

<<In addition to the information contained herein have those opposed to eating any food imported from China taken U.S. produced food products using ingredients imported from China into consideration? Think common ingredients like spices (especially garlic), corn, mushrooms, edamame/soybeans and many, many more...>>

Where did you find information that those food ingredients are coming from China?

The U.S supposedly is one of the top five soybean producers in the world.  And don't we grow a lot of our own mushrooms, garlic, etc?

And what happened to the good old American cornfields in the Midwest?

I don't know the answers......just asking.

[suzyQ3]

Sludging through this convoluted thread, I come away with only one important fact (thanks to @novamc1) and that is that the opening post is false. Period.

[novamc1]

@suzyQ3 

Thanks for getting the point   ! !

[Zhills]

Amazes me how many can find this forum and post but can't seem to find Google!!!!

[red&curly]

Sorry I was not complaining ..just stating that we have a Smithfield plant in our town and how these jobs are the main job sources in our town in this day and time.
After our hosiery mill went out of business I trained for another job but don't think that some workers could train ahead for jobs that didn't exist back then for certain positions in certain plants that came to our town.

[Zhills]

Nice positive post.  Jobs are jobs!