Pork deal likely to hike pollution output in U.S. Regarding the sale of Smithfield Foods to a premier pork production company to a Chinese entity: I remember sometime back reading of China’s cutting back pork production because of too much pollution of their waterways due to excessive hog farming. I also recall even further back how we in the U.S. also had a problem with too much intensive hog farming polluting our waterways. The would-be Chinese purchasers say they will not be flooding the U.S. with Chinese pork, a mere ploy to mislead us as to intent. The truth is that the Chinese want more pork and the profits from selling U.S. pork in China, plus profit from shipments in Chinese ships to China. But they do not want the pollution from pork production and pork processing. They prefer to leave that crap to U.S. taxpayers. Why have our government and our media not even raised the question of such increased pollution for the United States? Have the Chinese bought silence as well? RICHARD D. SLOAN Fort Wayne Journal Gazette
Posted on: Wed, 10 Jul 2013 07:11:20 +0000
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