Smithfield Foods Is Owned by China, but Pollution and Price-Fixing Is the Real Problem

Smithfield Foods Is Owned by China, but Pollution and Price-Fixing Is the Real Problem

Update: In July, the USDA unveiled the “National Farm Security Action Plan.” It includes increased penalties for unreported foreign purchases of U.S. farmland, and a pledge to “take swift legislative or executive action to end the direct or indirect purchase or control of American farmland by nationals from countries of concern or other foreign adversaries.” Shortly thereafter, Congressional Republicans introduced legislation that would ban Chin…