[bigbob]

What in HELL are we doing bringing in meat from China an show?

[Texicanus]

I agree. Why are we illegally smuggling or importing pig meat into this country from China?

[bigbob]

ANYHOW, I was trying to say...and the point being that while China has increased it's domestic pork capacity, we taught them how to do it. One of the first exports after Nixon opened up trade in the 70s was hog confinements, even to the point of chartered cargo jets hauling over precast concrete sections until their factories were in place. Now the are #1 but the US is a strong #2 and there is no reason we cannot produce all the pork we need without importing anything.

[Tucker39]

It’s my understanding of the Smithfield deal that U.S. swine are shipped to China for slaughter and packaging and shipped back. STUPID deal. I think they KEEP our pork, and send us their putrid disease ridden crap. This shipment caught in NJ is exhibit A.