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To: gnarledmaw

... and remembering to exclude Chinese pork (Smithfield) for obvious reasons, is as low as pre-Obama.


Learned this summer that Smithfield did not go the the Chinese (which jeopardized the US heparin supply) but was instead purchased by Mennonite family in upstate PA near Grand Canyon of PA.


1,123 posted on 04/04/2019 6:15:18 PM PDT by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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“Learned this summer that Smithfield did not go the the Chinese (which jeopardized the US heparin supply) but was instead purchased by Mennonite family in upstate PA near Grand Canyon of PA.”

Really! I have more or less stayed away from Smithfield but if this is true I will again be a happy customer.


1,125 posted on 04/04/2019 6:18:08 PM PDT by outinyellowdogcountry
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Really?!?!? Then the prices are crazy good. Pork has been often as low as $.99 lately. Ill make a point of buying more.


1,131 posted on 04/04/2019 6:29:05 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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Really?!?!? Then the prices are crazy good. Pork has been often as low as $.99 lately. Ill make a point of buying more.


1,132 posted on 04/04/2019 6:29:05 PM PDT by gnarledmaw (Hive minded liberals worship leaders, sovereign conservatives elect servants.)
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Smithfield is still owned by Chinese.


1,133 posted on 04/04/2019 6:40:39 PM PDT by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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I believe that Smithfield was indeed purchased by the Chinese Shuanghui Group in 2013. Where do you find information that someone else purchased them?


1,138 posted on 04/04/2019 7:17:53 PM PDT by nclaurel
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To: gnarledmaw; outinyellowdogcountry; jjotto; nclaurel

Last summer while on vacay in upstate PA, I had this very discussion about the security of our heparin supply. Maybe it was not Smithfield, but Hatfield, or another company. But the locals said the large pork business was taken private by Mennonites, the Chinese do not have it, and that the owners were very patriotic. I will keep looking, but did not see anything on my first pass before coffee...


1,211 posted on 04/05/2019 3:42:47 AM PDT by smileyface (Things looking up in RED PA! I love President Trump!)
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