“Just four companies — Cargill, Tyson Foods, JBS, and National Beef Packing — control 85% of the beef market in the United States. Smithfield Foods, JBS, Hormel, and Tyson Foods have about 70% of the market for pork. Tyson, JBS, Perdue Farms, and Sanderson Farms (partly owned by Cargill) hold 54% of the poultry market.”
“Smithfield Foods, the largest single pork producer in the U.S. (26% of the total market share), is entirely owned by the Chinese company WH Group, and the company’s purchase of Smithfield in 2013 was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company up to that point. Several senior executives at WH Group are members of the Chinese Communist Party, according to an investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation, and the company owns around 150,000 acres of land in 29 states through Smithfield.”
“JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, and National Beef Packing’s parent company, Marfrig, are Brazilian companies. Both have been accused of human rights abuses toward natives of the Amazon and illegally cutting down swathes of rainforest to make new land suitable for cattle grazing.”
“Tyson Foods, which has considerable market shares in all three major U.S. meat sectors (beef, pork, and poultry), made headlines recently over its comments about hiring more immigrant labor as the illegal immigration crisis continues to unfold on the southern border.”
“Smithfield Foods, the largest single pork producer in the U.S. (26% of the total market share), is entirely owned by the Chinese company WH Group, and the company’s purchase of Smithfield in 2013 was the largest Chinese acquisition of an American company up to that point. Several senior executives at WH Group are members of the Chinese Communist Party, according to an investigation by the Daily Caller News Foundation, and the company owns around 150,000 acres of land in 29 states through Smithfield.”
“JBS, the world’s largest meat producer, and National Beef Packing’s parent company, Marfrig, are Brazilian companies. Both have been accused of human rights abuses toward natives of the Amazon and illegally cutting down swathes of rainforest to make new land suitable for cattle grazing.”
“Tyson Foods, which has considerable market shares in all three major U.S. meat sectors (beef, pork, and poultry), made headlines recently over its comments about hiring more immigrant labor as the illegal immigration crisis continues to unfold on the southern border.”
