The Chinese want to own your bacon!

[Rumpltzer]

China's Shuanghui International said it would buy Smithfield Foods Inc for $4.7 billion in cash to help satisfy growing demand for U.S.-made pork in its home market.

Smithfield's is a Virginia-based pork producer - the world's largest.

Good things to come!

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/05/29/us-shuanghui-idUSBRE94S0K920130529

 

[SpunkyJones]

All your bacons are belong to us

 

[Dari]

As long as they don't bring their sewer water-filled pork products here, I'm fine with it.

 

[Ricky Spanish]

No thanks, I get my pork products from a local farm.

Fuck china.

 

[TraumaRN]

No thanks, I get my pork products from a local farm.

Fuck china.

I get mine from Boars Head or a local company. No Smithfield pork in my home.

 

[yhelothar]

I get mine from my own backyard, in which I only raise the alpha boars who are fed with steak and truffles, and are hand massaged everyday.

 

[Puppies04]

I get mine from my own backyard, in which I only raise the alpha boars who are fed with steak and truffles, and are hand massaged everyday.

:whiste:

 

[rsutoratosu]

yeah like you really want any type of meat from china... 20,000 tons

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/03/china-arrests-fake-meat-scandal

 

[techs]

I do believe its the first time I've seen the thread tag, "chinee takee outeee"

 

[NetWareHead]

No thanks, I get my pork products from a local farm.

Fuck china.

This... Now that I have a smoker and there are many people around me who raise pigs, I'm going to try my hand at making bacon this summer. Pork belly is cheap and bacon can be made easily. Home made bacon is delicious and far better than Oscar Meyer, Boars Head etc... brand.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

I get mine from my own backyard, in which I only raise the alpha boars who are fed with steak and truffles, and are hand massaged everyday.

What an adult does with a consenting boar in the privacy of their own backyard is none of our business. And please keep it that way.

 

[Miramonti]

It will not be good for US pork prices if China's going to hog them all.

 

[MontyAC]

I don't eat beacon, so it's really not news for me.

 

[sunzt]

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not to veer off topic... but rut ruoh?

 

[yhelothar]

What an adult does with a consenting boar in the privacy of their own backyard is none of our business. And please keep it that way.

Well how exactly did you think bacon gets all of its saltiness? :sneaky:

 

[Slew Foot]

I only eat pork raised by jewish monks that have sacrificed the hogs in a halal ritual during the vernal equinox.

 

[Anubis]

as long as they dont buy my local butcher they wont have my bacon

 

[techs]

Chinese pork production know how in the US?
There will be rivers of pork.

 

[BUTCH1]

I get mine from Boars Head or a local company. No Smithfield pork in my home.

I just bought 2 Smithfield racks of BB ribs, Winn-Dixie had a BOGO on 'em, final cost $3.40/lb. Keep in mind the Chinese want to keep production here in the US, not import pork from China, no one would buy it after how bad they fucked up the farm-raised tilapia deal..

 

[BUTCH1]

I don't eat beacon, so it's really not news for me.

I can't believe it, bacon is called "meat candy" for a good reason, my deepest condolences to you..

 

[Svnla]

Make sure it is pork bacon and not rat and "others" meat = http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/03/china-arrests-fake-meat-scandal

 

[jagec]

yeah like you really want any type of meat from china... 20,000 tons

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2013/may/03/china-arrests-fake-meat-scandal

If people don't want to eat tainted meat, they'll stop buying it. Why do you hate the free market?

 

[T_Yamamoto]

LOL at the thread tag: chinee takee outeee

 

[BoomerD]

Fucking Chinee's...this means WAR!



Oh wait...American Idol is on.

 

[Mixolydian]

They want our corn too.