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dixiegrrrrl

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7. the largest pork company in America now belongs to the Chinese, btw

Reply to customerserviceguy (Reply #4)

Thu Jun 6, 2019, 05:32 PM

Jun 2019

Smithfield Farms was a major pork company, contracting out to a lot of farmers.
Chinese bought it a few years back.
The US subsidiary of that Chinese owned farm got many millions in subsidies from Trump's farmer bailout.
So did the US subsidiary of the Brazilian beef? farms, the one we all heard about run by 2 brothers.
They used the 6 billion subsidy money to bribe politicians in Brazil.

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'No way to stop it': millions of pigs culled across Asia as swine fever spreads [View all] Eugene Jun 2019 OP

human beings have zero need to associate with pigs, wild or domestic. here' our reward for doing so msongs Jun 2019 #1

This is what comes of exploiting other species. Harker Jun 2019 #2

What a waste. The spread of this virus is caused by HUMAN activity and democratisphere Jun 2019 #3

This may save US farmers customerserviceguy Jun 2019 #4

China is by far the largest pork consumer on the planet. The tariff issue just became RockRaven Jun 2019 #5

the largest pork company in America now belongs to the Chinese, btw dixiegrrrrl Jun 2019 #7

Unless this virus spreads to the US, and elsewhere... Ghost Dog Jun 2019 #11

I have become MFM008 Jun 2019 #6

This thread is in Foreign Affairs customerserviceguy Jun 2019 #8

This was in response to culling MFM008 Jun 2019 #9

Then customerserviceguy Jun 2019 #10

............. MFM008 Jun 2019 #12