Senators urge inclusion of food safety in Smithfield review

I can’t believe any American would even dream of considering selling on of our major food producers to a country that has the world’s most notorious food safety scandals. In fact the company they want to sell Smithfield to just last year was caught selling toxic meat with the lean meat powder Clenbuterol and they want to sell it to this company? Smithfield Foods is the largest pork producer and processor in the world. It has facilities in 26 U.S. states and it employs tens of thousands of Americans. It directly owns 460 farms and has contracts with approximately 2,100 others. And we want to give this type of power and control to the thieving ChiComs! It must be stopped!

Sell all pigs and oil to China, let’s go veggie and green in America!

Food safety? Smithfield? Remember the swine flu epidemic that originated at a massive hog farm in La Gloria, Veracruz, MX? Yep, that was Smithfield, operating under lax NAFTA regulations that allowed for massive operations outside the U.S. The resulting putrid, pepto-bismol pink manure lagoons brewed up killer viruses. The presumed vectors were flies that landed on the lagoons, then carried the virus to people living nearby. China would have no problem rising to that standard.

@CountryPride: I am a 100% with you, but after IBM sold an American flagship computer business, worldwide renown brand IBM PC to Chinese Lenovo… My biggest fear it may be too late now… The Chicoms were able to figure out and take advantage of an Achilles’ heel of capitalism – greed! ©

The irony is that China recently banned U.S. pork imports with the substance ractopamine used to make pigs leaner and is likely to be stricter with food saftey amidst growing criticism in the past at home and execution of its previous food quality minister. It’s more of a good thing for consumers with combined food safety standards from both China and the U.S.