Smithfield is one of the most disgusting corporations next to Monsanto.

Smithfield is a company with a black, rotten, putrid heart.
They neither care about the animals nor about the people .
They ONLY CARE About PROFIT.

UFCW & Paula Dean

In the Spring of 2007, the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW) attempted to get celebrity chef Paula Deen to sever her ties with Smithfield. Ms. Dean had been a paid spokesperson since the Fall of 2006 and is the first personality to become entangled in a union dispute. During a sold out book tour in New York City in April, approximately two dozen people supporting the unionization of the huge Tar Heel, NC plant, held a prayer vigil out side of the Museum of Natural History. As she responded to audience questions, a union member tried to speak and deliver a letter. Leila McDowell and former Smithfield employee Lenore Bailey were ushered out. According to a news release from Ms. Dean:

“Now, I’m not an expert on the union situation but here’s what I do know: I know the folks at Smithfield care about their employees and work hard to support the communities where they live, work and raise their families.”

After the incident, the North Carolina Council of Churches sent a letter to Ms. Dean describing conditions at the plant. The letter included a report based on data from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). According to the data, worker injuries were up 200 percent since 2003. The company claimed its injury rate was no different from the industry average. The union vowed to continue demonstrating at Ms. Dean's book tours, on a larger scale.[5" from http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smithfield_Foods

From the http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/11/28/415371/-Hey-Y-all-Boycott-Paula-Deen-and-Smithfield-Ham
"Although I only caught the last few minutes, what I heard was Diane questioning Paula about conditions at the Smithfield Packing factory in Tarheel, North Carolina.  Paula Deen is a paid spokesperson for Smithfield, promoting their product at every appearance she makes.

They kill more than 30 million pigs a year.
http://www.peta.org/features/smithfield.aspx
At Smithfield, female pigs endure constant cycles of forced pregnancy. Newborn piglets are taken from their mothers after just a few weeks. They have their teeth clipped in half, their tails cut off, and their ears mutilated, and the males have their testicles ripped out—all without any painkillers.

Read this Smithfield profile...
an eye opener PDF File on Smithfield



http://fairfoodfight.com/2010/12/16/animal-abuse-at-smithfield-foods/

PROFIT trumps, goodness,kindness, humanness, ethics all of those get kicked and stabbed and beaten just like the animals, Smithfield simply see as nothing but a commodity and to increase profits Smithfield now sells to a Chinese Prepossessing Factory

I'm already Vegan "THANK You Grandma for giving me a good heart and common sense and teaching me to follow that good heart". So I don't eat PORK. If nobody ate pork, there wouldn't be any cruelty to pigs and BTW many people would live healthier and better lives without eating meat and all that fat that comes with it.

But it seems, it takes most people a long long time to come around and get on a plant based lifestyle.
Common now join... go Vegan! YOU CAN DO IT!

 Smithfield Brand



FYI
Smithfield Farm products sold under these brand names:

Aoste
Armour®
Basse's Choice
Big 8's®
Bistro
Campofrío
Carando®
Casa Taraneasca
Cochonou
Comtim
Cook's®
Cumberland Gap®
Curly's Foods®
Del Mare
Dinner Bell®
E-Z-Cut Hams
Eckrich®
El Miño
Ember Farms®
Esskay
Farmland®
Farmstead®
Flavoré®
Genuine Smithfield Ham
Great
Gwaltney®
Healthy Ones®
Higüeral
Hunter®
Jean Caby
John Morrell®
John Morrell Off the Bone
Justin Bridou®
Krakus®
Kretschmar Deli®
Krey®
La Abuelita™
Lunchmakers
Lundy's
Lykes®
Marcassou
Margherita®
Mayrose®
Mazury®
Milano's Italian Grille
Morliny
Mosey's Corned Beef
Nobre
Norson
Olde Kentucky
Party Dipper®
Patrick Cudahy™
Paula Deen Collection
Pavone®
Peyton's
Premium Standard Farms®
Pure Farms®
Quick-N-Easy®
Rath Black Hawk
Ready Crisp
Realean®
Riojano®
Rip-n-Dip®
Rodeo®
Simply Natural
Sizzle & Serve®
Smithfield®
Smithfield Marketplace
Smithfield Self Basting
Smithfield Tender 'n Easy
Stadler's Country Ham®
Stefano's
Stegeman®
Sunnyland®
The Peanut Shop of Williamsburg®
Tobin's First Prize®
Valleydale®
Weight Watchers
Yano

Environmental issues

Smithfield churns out a sea of waste that has destroyed rivers, killed millions of fish and generated one of the largest fines in the history of the EPA. The company slaughters approximately 27 million hogs per year, each hog with a slaugter weight 50% heavier than a person. The logistical challenge of processing that many pigs per year is roughly to butchering and boxing the entire human populations of New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Houston, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Antonio, San Diego, Dallas, San Jose, Detroit, Indianapolis, Jacksonville, San Francisco, Columbus, Austin, Memphis, Baltimore, Fort Worth, Charlotte, El Paso, Milwaukee, Seattle, Boston, Denver, Louisville, Washington, D.C., Nashville, Las Vegas, Portland, Oklahoma City and Tucson.
Smithfield actually faces a more difficult challenge even than transforming the populations of America's 32 largest cities into packages of meat. Hogs produce three times more excrement than human beings. The 500,000 pigs in a single Smithfield subsidiary in Utah generate more fecal matter every year than the 1.5 million inhabitants of Manhattan. Best estimates put Smithfield's total waste discharge at 26 million tons a year (enough to fill four Yankee Stadiums.) Even when divided among the many small units that surround the company's slaughterhouses, this is not a containable amount. ^{[20]
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Smithfield_Foods}


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/17/smithfield-pork-pigs-abuse-humane-society_n_798310.html

 

H1N1 Virus: The First Legal Action Targets a Pig Farm

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1898977,00.html#ixzz2Uiu7uKqP
Trunnell's petition seeks to investigate claims that the H1N1 outbreak began in Smithfield's massive pork operation in La Gloria and that the virus may have been caused in part by the conditions under which the farm operates, which the petition terms "horrifically unsanitary."

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1898977,00.html#ixzz2UiuCNqqr

Smithfield Farm Pictures of Mexio facilities

The famous pig shit lakes that bred the Swine Flu. The lakes are full of pig blood, pig shit, rotting dead pigs and other charming and delectable items. Note broken pipe. The smell from these lakes is so horrible that workers are sometimes overcome, pass out, and fall into the pig shit lake. Those who dive in to save them almost always die too. It sometimes takes weeks to fish the bodies out. SOURCE
http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/photos-of-smithfield-foods-granjas-carrol-site-in-la-gloria-mexico/

Comments from Mark
" Smithfield is the largest hog producer in the world and controls almost 30% of the U.S. pork market. Smithfield’s style of industrial pork production is now a major source of air pollution and probably the largest source of water pollution in America. Smithfield and its cronies have driven tens of thousands of family farmers off the land, shattered rural communities, poisoned thousands of miles of American waterways, killed billions of fish, put thousands of fishermen out of work, sickened rural residents and treated hundreds of millions of farm animals with unspeakable and unnecessary cruelty." Read more
http://robertlindsay.wordpress.com/2009/05/30/photos-of-smithfield-foods-granjas-carrol-site-in-la-gloria-mexico/

Dead pigs left out in the heat to rot. Scavengers have been feeding on these pigs.


Listen folks the writing has been on the wall for decades now, you can't say you don't know.

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America's addictions, Meat, Dairy, Eggs, Sugar & Cocain 

 While Children are starving we feed precious GRAIN to animals so our fat nation can continue this grotesque lifestyle of eating meat, dairy and eggs, add the refined sugar and and it all becomes unbearably sickening.
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