Smithfield Foods

Big Meat Files Suit to Stop California Measure Improving Animal Welfare | Common Dreams News

(Note: Smithfield was sold to China in 2013, Cargill reports revenues of $114.695 billion and earnings of $3.103 billion in 2018. Employing over 166,000 employees in 66 countries, it is responsible for 25% of all United States grain exports.)  “The law, as Mercy for Animals previously explained, “outlaws the most extreme forms of animal confinement …

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Smithfield should bail out pools of hog waste, not ask for a bailout

Opinion Washington Post: Smithfield should bail out pools of hog waste, not ask for a bailout Floodwaters from the Lumber River rise over a sign in Lumberton, N.C., on Sept. 18, in the wake of Hurricane Florence. (Eamon Queeney/For The Washington Post) Regarding the Oct. 24 news article “Will farm bailout help foreign firms?”: Allowing …

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