Is the US About to Become One Big Factory Farm for China?
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/chinas-biggest-meat-c-swallows-us-pork-giant-smithfield
The small number of companies that dominate global meat production is about to get smaller. The Chinese corporation Shuanghui International, already the majority shareholder of China's largest meat producer, has just bought US giant Smithfield, the globe's largest hog producer and pork packer, in a $4.7 billion cash deal. ...