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Why are CCP-controlled companies threatening our food supply and our economy from within?
Posted on 6/5/26 at 9:21 am
Posted on 6/5/26 at 9:21 am
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@SecKennedy knows all about the dirty bastaat Smithfield. These SOBs threaten the food supply FO
The regulations they helped to impose on real farmers and ranches is the problem. They abuse animals to a point I cannot describe here. Farmers and ranchers can feed the nation, the corporate big AG sell outs don't allow it. End the poisoned food and animal abusers, and their unfair regulations for local farmers
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A Chinese company controls 1/4 of American pork output and 20% of America's packaged meat output (including brands such as Nathan's Famous' that they acquired this year)! They immediately shut down Nathan's Massachusetts plant after they finalized acquisition of the brand!
They're also building massive hog farms and canceling their meat purchasing contracts with the farmers they used to purchase from!
Can you imagine an American company taking control of 1/4 of any food production inside China??
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Posted on 6/5/26 at 9:27 am to Ailsa
The commies buying Smithfield should never have been allowed to go through.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 9:29 am to uggabugga
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The commies buying Smithfield should never have been allowed to go through.
If a hostile entity controls 25% of your domestic food supply you have a national defense problem.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 10:12 am to Ailsa
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Why are CCP-controlled companies threatening our food supply and our economy from within?
They’re not stealing it. We’re selling it.
1 Timothy 6:10 English Standard Version
10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 10:18 am to Prodigal Son
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They’re not stealing it. We’re selling it.
No one accused them of stealing it...communist foreigners should never be allowed to own companies in America...especially those that could poison our food.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:09 pm to Ailsa
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No one accused them of stealing it...communist foreigners should never be allowed to own companies in America...especially those that could poison our food.
I’m with you. Is anybody doing anything about it? I mean, it seems like it should be somebody’s job to look out for the best interests of the American people (whatever that means now) and we the people should be holding them accountable (if we could agree on what that is). It is strange how that is not happening, isn’t it? What recourse do we have?
Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:15 pm to Ailsa
Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:17 pm to Prodigal Son
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I’m with you. Is anybody doing anything about it? I mean, it seems like it should be somebody’s job to look out for the best interests of the American people (whatever that means now) and we the people should be holding them accountable (if we could agree on what that is). It is strange how that is not happening, isn’t it? What recourse do we have?
Hopefully it will all get sorted out in the next 2 years and put an end to this.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:26 pm to Ailsa
When you consider the fact that a few Chinese nationals have been caught in recent years basically operating bio labs this story really becomes worrisome. We let the country that basically unleashed a biological attack on the world with COVID 19 own businesses in the United States concerning our food supply and buy land next to our military bases. What could go wrong with that?
Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:33 pm to Ailsa
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the corporate big AG sell outs don't allow it
THIS is the reason.... same as with the big multinational corporations that put profit above all. They have DC lobbyists that dish out money to our elected "congressional representation " to ensure whatever laws/structures are required to continuously enrich themselves.
The lobbyists(those that they employ) are the ones who write many of the bills our elected representatives bring forth in Congress. The representatives themselves don't understand the intricacies well enough to construct the bills themselves.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:35 pm to Ailsa
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Hopefully it will all get sorted out in the next 2 years and put an end to this.
It will take more than 2 years. Americas only hope is that Rubio and Vance can somehow stick together.
More importantly is that we the people vote in better congressional representation.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:37 pm to tide06
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If a hostile entity controls 25% of your domestic food supply you have a national defense problem.
If any single entity controls 25%+ of your domestic food supply you have a problem. Yet, ours continues to be consolidated at a rapid pace.
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Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:38 pm to LegendInMyMind
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If any single entity controls 25%+ of your domestic food supply you have a problem. Yet, ours continues to be consolidated at a rapid pace
See my above post.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:46 pm to Ailsa
My Dad used to say "no one can beat the American Capitalist Free Market System at our own game ... unless American politicians tie our hands and keep us from winning."
He was mainly talking about the restaurant and restaurant supply business at the time ... which included the food supply apparatus in this country.
He always warned of the power of franchises and their propensity to put Mom & Pop restaurants out of business. Not because the people prefer fast food, but because of EPA and DHEC regulations that make Mom & Pop operations unaffordable in order to meet regulatory standards ... stainless steel everything, high dollar refrigeration units, etc.
At the time Smithfield had just been purchased by the Chinese. It immediately affected his restaurants that he had for thirty years. Long story but the solution is easy.
Let young farmers open up new, independent, chicken, pork and beef operations and processing facilities and sell to independent restaurant owners and MAHA consumers.
We're doing some of that in SC now. Local butchers and processors. Small livestock farms ... including milk producers. They're doing it in Eastern Tennessee around Johnson City too, and in Texas. They're selling all they can produce to local grocery store chains and restaurants.
If anyone watched Yellowstone or is watching Dutton Ranch ... they touch on that some
The American Businessman will beat the Chinese.
Wasn't long ago that we thought Japan was taking over this country.
He was mainly talking about the restaurant and restaurant supply business at the time ... which included the food supply apparatus in this country.
He always warned of the power of franchises and their propensity to put Mom & Pop restaurants out of business. Not because the people prefer fast food, but because of EPA and DHEC regulations that make Mom & Pop operations unaffordable in order to meet regulatory standards ... stainless steel everything, high dollar refrigeration units, etc.
At the time Smithfield had just been purchased by the Chinese. It immediately affected his restaurants that he had for thirty years. Long story but the solution is easy.
Let young farmers open up new, independent, chicken, pork and beef operations and processing facilities and sell to independent restaurant owners and MAHA consumers.
We're doing some of that in SC now. Local butchers and processors. Small livestock farms ... including milk producers. They're doing it in Eastern Tennessee around Johnson City too, and in Texas. They're selling all they can produce to local grocery store chains and restaurants.
If anyone watched Yellowstone or is watching Dutton Ranch ... they touch on that some
The American Businessman will beat the Chinese.
Wasn't long ago that we thought Japan was taking over this country.
Posted on 6/5/26 at 8:49 pm to tide06
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If a hostile entity controls 25% of your domestic food supply you have a national defense problem.
Give me a scenario that is a problem. You can't. There is none. The moment they cut off 1/4 of our pork supply our government would confiscate the operations.
Chinese investment in the US is a national defense risk - to China. You guys have it exactly backwards.
Take Iran as an example. There are significant Iranian investments in the US. We are using them to threaten Iran, not the other way around. Now imagine if there was significant US investment in Iran. They would confiscate it, which is exactly what they did in 1979.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 12:15 am to Ailsa
Because they own our politicians
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Posted on 6/6/26 at 10:48 am to scrooster
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Let young farmers open up new, independent, chicken, pork and beef operations and processing facilities and sell to independent restaurant owners and MAHA consumers.
That would be perfect...
U.S. Chicken is Processed in china...2013
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U.S chickens to be sent to China for processing and then shipped back to the U.S. for human consumption. This arrangement is particularly alarming given China’s appalling food safety record and the fact that there will be no on-site USDA inspectors in those plants. In addition, American consumers will never know that chicken processed in China is in foods like chicken soup or chicken nuggets because there’s no requirement to label it as such.
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The proposed sale of Smithfield Foods to Shuanghui International, a major Chinese food processor, has added to the industry scrutiny. In July, senators from both parties questioned Larry Pope, the chief executive of Smithfield, about the implications of his company’s deal for food safety and United States employment.
Mr. Pope responded that the deal was intended to address the rising demand for meat in China and that American workers would be employed in that effort. “This means increased capacity for U.S. producers, more jobs in processing and more exports for the U.S. economy,” Mr. Pope said. “At the same time, we will continue to supply our same high-quality, renowned products to U.S. consumers.”
The poultry trade between the United States and China has been contentious for years. Under the Bush administration, the U.S.D.A. moved to allow imports of chicken from China, which has banned imports of American beef since 2003 over worries about mad cow disease.
In response, Congress blocked Chinese chicken exports. China retaliated by slapping huge tariffs on American chicken. The fight ended up at the World Trade Organization, which ruled that the tariffs were too high.
After that, the U.S.D.A. then audited Chinese processing plants, giving its approval for them to process raw birds from the United States and Canada
Under the new rules, the Chinese facilities will verify that cooked products exported to the United States came from American or Canadian birds. So no U.S.D.A. inspector will be present in the plants.
And because the poultry will be processed, it will not require country-of-origin labeling. Nor will consumers eating chicken noodle soup from a can or chicken nuggets in a fast-food restaurant know if the chicken came from Chinese processing plants.
“We certainly don’t look forward to any more imports, but we also realize free trade is a two-way street,” said Tom Super, spokesman for the National Chicken Council, which represents big chicken processors in the United States. “We’re hoping the Chinese will look a little more favorably on our chicken products and on other U.S. agricultural imports.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/31/business/chinese-chicken-processors-are-cleared-to-ship-to-us.html
https://archive.vn/eteQg
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washing chicken carcasses in a chemical solution https://www.kctv5.com/story/21549046/scathing-splc-report-on-poultry-processing-plants
The new rules will decrease the number of health inspectors from four per line to only one.
"The lines are so fast, one-third of a second per bird," said Phyllis McKelvey, a USDA inspector who retired in 2010, according to the report. "You tell me you can thoroughly inspect that bird for disease and contaminants in one-third of a second?"
Posted on 6/6/26 at 12:24 pm to Ailsa
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U.S. Chicken is Processed in china...2013
SC processes millions of chickens a month.
Columbia Farms ( House of Raeford ) is big in Columbia, Greenville, Charleston ... and up in NC as well.
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Columbia Farms (House of Raeford) is a major poultry processing and family-owned farm enterprise located in West Columbia, SC, operating under the House of Raeford brand.
It's up to local farmers to keep China at bay.
We utilize Mobile Processing Units on my farm. We process over 10k broilers, organic, steroid free, free range ... every four months. If you're eating Lowes and Fresh Market chickens, they probably came from here, or four or five other small scale poultry farmers here in the Carolinas.
Everyone should make themselves aware of exactly who it is they're supporting when they choose which meats to eat.
It not only affects our health, but our local economies as well.
Buy beef from local butchers who get their beef from local cattlemen.
Drink milk from local dairies ... low temp pasteurized whole milk. Do not drink big chain big box milk.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 12:54 pm to scrooster
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We utilize Mobile Processing Units on my farm.
It would be nice to know where to purchase these...chicken hasn't tasted very good for a long time.
We used to have a local dairy where I could go and fill 4 - 1 gallon jars right out of the tank but the owners bought into the govt CRP. All those cows that had been bred to give larger quantities of milk for 17 years...all gone to make baloney.
Posted on 6/6/26 at 4:51 pm to Ailsa
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It would be nice to know where to purchase these...chicken hasn't tasted very good for a long time.
We used to have a local dairy where I could go and fill 4 - 1 gallon jars right out of the tank but the owners bought into the govt CRP. All those cows that had been bred to give larger quantities of milk for 17 years...all gone to make baloney.
Are you in SC?
If not, I'd check with local, family owned, butchers in your area ... they'll point you in the right direction and let you know from where their poultry is sourced.
We're registered with GetFreeRange.info that's GetFreeRange dot info ... and we get a lot of business through them and other similar sources like USFarmTrail dot com. (They've both got sources for every state in our beloved South)
If you're in SC and you're looking for dairy ... the best is Hickory Hill Dairy. Best milk on the planet. They're neighbors to my farm. Good family, good people. Not that highly pasterized nasty big box store milk.
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