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America's Biggest Pork Producer Is Actually Owned By A Company In China

For decades pork was marketed as "the other white meat," but nowadays, it could be called the meat that helps keep Smithfield Foods in the black. The company owned an estimated 600,000 hogs in the United States as of 2024, according to Successful Farming . During that fiscal year, it also made roughly $1 billion in profits. The pork giant is behind a wide array of deli meats, franks, bacon, and canned pork products consumed throughout the country. However, you may not know that Smithfield Foods was purchased for $7.1 billion in 2013 by a Chinese company that now goes by the name WH Group.

This might seem like an unexpected turn of events, given Smithfield Foods' history. From its inception, the brand was d

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