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Ever wonder if they are trying to kill us off with their products.. the lead paint on toys, the Chinese drywall, unsafe toys , pets getting sick and dieing with Chinese make pet food.. I don't trust their products.. they could put all kinds of lethal substances in the products they sell us..
Ever wonder if they are trying to kill us off with their products.. the lead paint on toys, the Chinese drywall, unsafe toys , pets getting sick and dieing with Chinese make pet food.. I don't trust their products.. they could put all kinds of lethal substances in the products they sell us..
China isn't going to import pigs. They are going to EXPORT the pork products from here to them.
China is a net importer of pork.
They are buying up OUR food supply chain for themselves.
They already import 60% of the world's supply of soybean.
If anything this means our pork prices may rise because they are exporting our pork "home".
I predict the following may happen. The Chinese have no real need for things like Smoked Ham, Bacon or pork sausages. The have a need for ground pork and shreaded pork (pork stripped from the bones. So this is the form it will leave the Mid-Atlantic region to travel in freezer containers or even flown to China. They are actually intrested in the Farm-suppliers to to Smithfield rather than the processing elements or the sales and transport (US) elements of the company. I predict some serious downsizing and unemployment in the Virginia Tidewater and Eastern North Caroline where Smithfield has processing plants or cold storage and shipping facilities. The Smithfield brands in supermarkets may virtually disapear. Any independent trucker who ships Smithfield products to Americas supermarket chains will have to find some new shippers needing their services.
You think US government will issue H1B visas to Chinese workers? Even those Chinese PhDs can't get one.
Money talks my friend.
And, they may just grind up all hogs, freeze it and ship it to their own country, and put many Americans out of work, globalization, it's a dirty word. It may even hurt some truckers, as one member already stated.
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