America’s largest pork producer was exporting massive quantities of pork to its Chinese “sister company” as it stockpiled food for the Chinese military, according to a Daily Caller News Foundation review of corporate records and Chinese state-run media reports.
Smithfield Foods, owner of roughly 150,000 acres of U.S. land and operator of dozens of feed mills and production plants, has shipped hundreds of thousands of tons of pork to its China-based parent company WH Group and sister company Shuanghui Investment and Development Co. since being acquired in 2013, according to corporate and Chinese government records as well as state-run media reports.
Shuanghui has extensive ties to the People’s Liberation Army, which it touts on its website, and is responsible for developing food for China’s military to use on the battlefield, according to the…
