Posted on 05/15/2019 10:16:44 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
They already bought SMITHFIELD a year or 2 ago.
Forty five years ago African swine flu (ASF) was in Cuba. The US was trying to get Mexico to stop imports of pork from Cuba as they were worried the disease might get into the USA.
We have them here in northern Mi too. They hang them on buck poles.
How about medicine?
Not if you have a choice.
No kung pow Port for you China—better make a deal with Trump now. It will only get worse after 2020.
China has always had high tariffs on imports from the US.
How do tariffs on imports *from* China hurt him?
To put into proper perspective, 1/3 of China’s slaughter-ready hogs will be killed and buried. According to a poster on SCMP.com, all the slaughter-ready hogs in the world does not equal the # of hogs China will kill and bury in the next 12-18 months.
Just when pork is about the only affordable meat. :(
I suggested to my husband we raise a hog, but he vetoed the idea. (We live on a 55’x 150’ city lot).
Who do you think owns Smithfield? They’ll just take our pigs.
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