12/20/2025
Fast Fact: Smithfield Foods, a major Chinese Owned pork producer and processor that operates in the United States, has been operating under the radar while wiping out American farmers and towns.
However, the people and businesses in the towns it infiltrates say their takeover should be raising red flags at a federal level because China's control over US food production is a national security risk.
As requested, here is a list of the their key brands, compiled from company profiles, investor information, and reliable sources as of late this year: (More info to come)
🔷️Armour
🔷️Carando
🔷️Cook's
🔷️Curly's
🔷️Eckrich
🔷️Farmland
🔷️Farmer John
🔷️Gwaltney
🔷️Healthy Ones
🔷️John Morrell
🔷️Kretschmar
🔷️Krakus
🔷️Margherita
🔷️Nathan's Famous
Pure Farmland (plant-based products)
Smithfield (flagship brand)
Smithfield Culinary (foodservice brand)
Smithfield Foods is the largest pork producer and processor in the United States.
It holds about 40% of the market share.
Smithfield controls hog production (raising millions of pigs each year through owned and contract farms) and processing (slaughtering).
Smithfield processes around 30 million hogs per year
Previously Reported:
Smithfield Foods wiped out 28,000 independent Hog Farmers, replaced them with industrial outfits that were then sold to China & a state Senator helped them do it
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. recently exposed the rapid downfall of North Carolina's independent hog farmers at the hands of Smithfield Foods, a once-American powerhouse that later sold itself to a Chinese conglomerate.
Smithfield orchestrated a near-total takeover of North Carolina's hog sector devastating family-owned operations and paving the way for Beijing's grip on American pork production.
"A state senator here in [North Carolina] called Wendell Murphy… went into business with Smithfield, they built a new slaughterhouse in this state, and he used his position in the state senate to pass 28 laws that made it almost impossible to sue somebody who calls themself a hog farm, even if it has nothing to do with farming," Kennedy said.
"By raising hogs in factories, they dropped the price of pork, in about a two-year period, from $0.60/lb to $0.02/lb"
"There were 28,000 independent hog farmers in this state, and it put all of them out of business and left hog production in the hands of 2,000 industrial outfits, all of them either owned, or operated by, or had contracts with one company: Smithfield."
"They made North Carolina the hog production capital of the world, and this business plan spread to every other state because they had to adopt it. And then Smithfield, which now owns 80% of the hog production in this state, 40% nationally, and was controlling our landscapes, sold itself to China."
"Now, China has a colonial model in the rural parts of this state where… they’re poisoning the groundwater."
