Chinese Company Acquires World's Biggest Pigkiller: Smithfield


From Robert F Kennedy Jr. and Ralph Nader to health, environment, labor and animal rights groups in Europe, Mexico and the US, activists have opposed the world's biggest pig killer Smithfield recently acquired by a Chinese company for billions.

The world's biggest pigkiller, animal slayer and agony causer, human disease generator, environmental destroyer, major polluter of the Atlantic and other seas with pfiesteria, ecoli (colon bacteria), etc. is Smithfield, with operations in the US, Mexico, the UK, Romania, Poland etc.

Smithfield is being bought by a Chinese company, Shuanghui International Holdings Ltd. China already has at least 2 billionaires whose fortune is derived by the murder of pigs. Before this acquisition, Chinese businesses were slaughtering 450 million pigs a year.... genocide on an unprecedented level.

Smithfield was considered a cause of an epidemic in Mexico. It has been opposed around the world.  http://www.stopsmithfieldfoods.com

Trichinosis is one of many diseases associated with consuming pig cadavers. The cyst of the trichinella worm is hard and takes high heat to kill. Eating the flesh of pigs is avoided in the Muslim, Jewish religions as well as the vegetarian religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, the sects of Seventh Day Adventists, Franciscan, Trappist and other Catholic religious orders, Salvation Army original teachings, the writings of the founder of Methodism John Wesley.

 http://grist.org/article/2009-04-25-swine-flu-smithfield/

 http://www.ohio.com/news/break-news/china-s-shuanghui-in-4-7-billion-dea

Robert F Kennedy on Smithfield in Poland video  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkgxHCvtfbc

Poisons in Pigs' Cadavers  http://bst1000.blogspot.com/

Ralph Nader's Public Citizen: a corporate profile of Smithfield  http://www.citizen.org/documents/Smithfield.pdf

Smithfield record fine for filling Virginia river with pigwaste  http://www.bayjournal.com/article/smithfield_gets_record_fine_for_pollut

 http://awionline.org/content/smithfields-invasion-poland

The Trouble With Smithfield: A Corporate Profile

 http://avaazimages.s3.amazonaws.com/SmithfieldJan08.pdf

Smithfield in E. Europe

 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/business/global/06smithfield.html?page

One analysis of Smithfield

 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_Foods

Thailand's CP Foods considered a Smithfield bid, something anathema to the Buddhists of Thailand.
See also:
 http://grist.org/article/2009-04-25-swine-flu-smithfield/
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkgxHCvtfbc