Perilously Close To The Edge’:
World’s Largest Pork Processor Closes A US Plant,
Warns Of ‘Severe’ Meat Shortages
Daily Caller,
by
Chris White
Original Article
Posted By: Calvinesq,
4/13/2020 3:31:22 PM
A China-owned pork processor announced Sunday that it’s shutting down a South Dakota plant indefinitely after employees were infected with coronavirus, noting that the nation’s grocers are under severe stress. Smithfield Foods announced the shutdown as government officials keep lockdowns in place across the country amid an ebbing coronavirus pandemic, which has killed more than 20,000 people in the United States. China’s WH Group purchased the company in 2013 for for $4.7 billion. Smithfield Foods retooled processing operations to direct meat to China, which produced much of the world’s pork shortly before a pig disease killed millions of hogs and turned the communist country into a major importer.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 4/13/2020 3:33:17 PM (No. 378361)
About time we think seriously about connections to China. . .
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
curious1 4/13/2020 3:33:42 PM (No. 378362)
Smells like it to me, OP. Perhaps the DPA could come into play here, using the military to fill in.
Would also be a good way to run off the illegals the industry uses all over the place.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
MMC 4/13/2020 3:37:59 PM (No. 378364)
And the problem with a Chinese operation shut down?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Historybuff 4/13/2020 3:43:27 PM (No. 378366)
No worries - Hormel in Austin Mn. will be there for you - 1500 pigs go in per day.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
marbles 4/13/2020 3:44:59 PM (No. 378367)
It isn't just about pork. According to Rep. Massie ( R - Kentucky ) beef is in the cross hairs too.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hurricanegirl 4/13/2020 3:46:42 PM (No. 378368)
There may be meat shortages in China, but there is NO shortage of pork in the U.S. because, thank God, nobody figured out how to eliminate the wild hog "problem," which isn't a problem at all. It's an opportunity! Can we cut the red tape and start utilizing this self-replenishing resource NOW?
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#2 Great Idea. What else do they own?
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Lawsy0 4/13/2020 3:57:15 PM (No. 378376)
I am wondering if any of this processed pork was intended for US consumption. Perhaps they shipped most of it back to China. Who do you trust?
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No matter. The "news" folks will pump up this for all its worth, then gleefully watch the run on meat at the groceries, reveling in their power.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
kono 4/13/2020 4:08:13 PM (No. 378381)
"... which has killed more than 20,000 people in the United States."
You mean "which 20,000 people in the United States tested positive for when they died." We had here the CDC guidelines here that said to record COVID-19 as the cause of death if it was present when a person died.
https://www.lucianne.com/2020/04/09/the_cdc_confesses_to_lyingbrabout_covid-19_death_numbers_31440.html
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
lil dotty 4/13/2020 4:08:35 PM (No. 378382)
Our BACON walking out the door.
Fake news will push the panic buttons really hard on this one.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
couchguy 4/13/2020 4:34:44 PM (No. 378407)
We have the hard part, the pigs. Somebody will butcher and package them. With the kung-flu engineered panic falling apart, they're pulling out all the stops to scare people.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2020 4:36:48 PM (No. 378410)
Force the Chinese to divest themselves of this.
What are the chances that the real issue here is China cutting off our meat supply as retaliation for Trump's trade changes?
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Sandbar 4/13/2020 4:38:56 PM (No. 378414)
This plant processes meat to be exported to China and gives China an excuse to renege on their agreement to import U.S. farm products. Not good for U.S. pork producers and devastating for China's bat population.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
snakeoil 4/13/2020 4:48:13 PM (No. 378427)
They've still got bat burgers.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
bighambone 4/13/2020 4:52:08 PM (No. 378433)
That Communist China owned pork processing company that appears to be attempting to create another buying panic in the USA, this time concerning meat, should be an immediate target by the President for a Defense Production Act takeover by the US Government.
The Chinese Communist Government is responsible for the virus being exported all over the world by allowing large numbers of obviously infected Chinese from leaving the highly impacted Wuhan, China region by commercial air to countries like Italy, the U.K., and the USA. That occurred after the Chinese Government knew that they had an ongoing pandemic in Wuhan, China with a very contagious virus able to be transmitted from human to human, that the Chinese Government was denying to other national governments. That was a big deal as about 30,000 Chinese enter the USA by commercial air from China every month.
Now we have a Chinese Communist entity (Smithfield Foods) in the USA that the Chinese were allowed to own, apparently during the Obama era, that is the largest US pork processing company that is announcing that the USA is heading for a food (meat) shortage!
The globalist supporting talking head Neil Cavuto on the FNC just interviewed the Governor of South Dakota about the Smithfield Pork Processing plant at Sioux Falls, that Smithfield is now shutting down. He never brought out that Smithfield is owned by the Chinese Communists, or when wondering how workers there could have caught the virus, that a good number of the meat processing workers there are likely illegal aliens who are living together in substandard buildings that have dense population numbers. Clueless!
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
red1066 4/13/2020 5:06:22 PM (No. 378453)
Stopped buying Smithfield products years ago when the Chinese bought the company. Just think Chinese government/military.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
TXknitter 4/13/2020 5:20:28 PM (No. 378467)
Smithfield is a wholly-owned subsidiary of CHINA. I would never buy their products. I think whatever state you live in, you would be horrified how far China has tentacles into the banking, education and medicine of their state. We need to say Thank you Congress. Long time incumbents are greatly to blame.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 4/13/2020 6:35:10 PM (No. 378520)
Wonder how the mini dictators are going to handle the shortages and depravation caused when the 'essential' services close? What if Tysons, the nations largest processor of chicken, pork and meat shuts down? No job and no food is really gonna make a few thousand died because of a virus look, paltry compared to societal breakdown.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
3XALADY 4/13/2020 7:15:03 PM (No. 378549)
I heard or read this morning that 550 pork producers used this facility. That is going to hurt!
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
FLCracker 4/13/2020 7:22:50 PM (No. 378552)
Hmmmm. Smithfield is owned by China?
There's other fish in the sea, as it were.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
DVC 4/13/2020 9:13:46 PM (No. 378628)
South Dakota's governor said that the plant accounts for 4 to 5% of US pork production, and would be back in a few weeks.
Doesn't sound too dire to me.
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I read it's not only Smithfield, but Tyson, Cargill, Empire turkeys and some others. How long before the stampede to empty the stores again? How long does the virus live on meat? Frozen meat?
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