Smithville meats

EgorKC wrote:

sljkansas wrote:
Are they the only pork/meat company in the United States? I think we will still be able to buy American produced meat products. I have never heard of Smithfield before. When I want quality beef or pork I buy from a local Farmer or 4H member. I have a freezer large enough for a hog and 1/2 beef.

.....Once the Chinese company owns them supply here will be reduced by the amount they export to China. In addition China does not have a sterling reputation for Quality Control (toothpaste and pet food contaminants have been reported by national media in recent years) so I fear the management they install here will potentially (being PC here) take shortcuts....Greg

Got that right!

Chinese meat import is on the FDA fast track. They already approved that we can ship chickens grown here TO China for processing and then shipped back here. Ya, like I am going to eat chicken that has been around the world twice in the bottom of a shipping barge that the FDA only inspects 1% of ALL the imported food! :R

~~"Rejected items often reappear at U.S. ports several times; importers gamble that the FDA, which only inspects 1% of regulated imports, won’t catch them in the act.
http://consumerist.com/2007/05/21/chinese-poison-train-declared-unstoppable-next-stop-you/


OR.......
How about rat meat sold as Mutton in China?
Keeping that in mind and the fact that the FDA only inspects 1% of all imported food.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/rat-meat-sold-lamb-latest-132039664.html