be forewarned

shortbreadlover · ‎06-25-2018

smithfield prok is owned by a company from china

Nightowlz · ‎03-11-2010

Yep that happened a while back. Don't remember when but someone posted about it.

kittyloo · ‎03-11-2010

why does it matter where the parent company is located?

the hams are not processed there. the meat i presume doesn't come from there either. ???

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

@kittyloo wrote:
why does it matter where the parent company is located?
the hams are not processed there. the meat i presume doesn't come from there either. ???

I wouldn't be so sure about that, I'll have to Goggle it. I buy local pork if I want a pork product.

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

I looked it up, the company is indeed owned by China now, but the pigs are raised in the US and processed in Virginia.

shortbreadlover · ‎06-25-2018

some folks just do not want to do business with a company owned by china. i feel that the smithfield has cut corners when the company from china took over

blackhole99 · ‎08-22-2013

@shortbreadlover wrote:
some folks just do not want to do business with a company owned by china. i feel that the smithfield has cut corners when the company from china took over

Of course that fact would not be covered in the news for the general public, unless someone on the inside complained. I don't doubt that it could be a concern.

Jtdmum · ‎03-17-2010

Tarrifs maybe? Not local?

Smithfield is a big no for me- Glad I'm not a Ham or Bacon loving person.

novamc1 · ‎07-02-2015

@shortbreadlover

The ownership change at Smithfield is old news.

The company's products are still grown and processed here in the U.S. (and extensively exported to China, which wants and needs the product, or at least it used to before whatever new tariff agreements have been worked out between the U.S. and China.)

Common sense dictates that it makes no sense to raise pigs and hogs here and export them to China for processing and then send them back to our grocery stores.

The sale of Smithfield to a Chinese company was a financial/economic move that probably saved the company and helped keep it operating in a poor economic environment. I seem to recall news reports to that effect.

One other aspect of the hog/pig business is that a large chunk of it got wiped out in eastern North Carolina because of the recent hurricane. Very sad what happened to the farms, one of which I visited many years ago. It was owned by the grandparents of a good friend of mine.

That entire region has taken a huge hit to its crops, livestock, and other things that support the economy--and this probably just raises food prices for the rest of us.