2021年7月13日 · Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork processor, has stopped slaughtering pigs in the United States' so-called ham capital, where the company was founded 85 years ago.

2 天之前 · Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Smithfield Foods' hog slaughterhouse is seen in Smithfield, Virginia, U.S. October 17, 2019. Picture taken October 17, 2019.

2022年9月21日 · Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork processor, has stopped slaughtering pigs in the United States’ so-called ham capital, where the company was founded 85 years ago. The end of slaughtering in Smithfield, Virginia, is the latest reconfiguration for the company’s namesake plant and follows a months-long internal review of its East ...

2023年12月6日 · Smithfield Foods said it will end contracts with 26 hog farms in the U.S. state of Utah, in the latest contraction by the world's largest pork processor in the face of an industry...

2021年7月7日 · Effective this August, Smithfield Foods will end slaughtering operations at its hometown meatpacking plant on North Church Street. Smithfield also plans to consolidate its pet food business into one centralized facility in Orange City, Iowa, resulting in the closure of its pet food plant in town, the company’s chief administrative officer ...

2021年7月13日 · Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork processor, has stopped slaughtering pigs in the United States' so-called ham capital, where the company was founded 85 years ago.

2021年7月12日 · SMITHFIELD, Va. (AP) — Smithfield Foods says it will no longer slaughter animals in the Virginia town where it was founded. Chief Administrative Officer Keira Lombardo told The Virginian-Pilot on Monday that the decision comes after a months-long internal review.

2021年7月13日 · SMITHFIELD, Va. (AP) — Smithfield Foods will no longer slaughter animals in the Virginia town where it was founded. Chief Administrative Officer Keira Lombardo told The Virginian-Pilot on...

The largest pork processor in America–by far–is Smithfield Foods, whose massive plant in Tar Heel, North Carolina is known as “porkopolis.” The million square-foot plant, said to be the largest slaughterhouse in the world, is a heavily automated disassembly line, processing up …

2 天之前 · US farmers, who deliver hogs to processing plants, and slaughterhouse workers have been on edge about the risk for further plant closures. Smithfield closed a plant in Vernon, California, and another in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2023. It also stopped slaughtering pigs at its hometown plant in Smithfield, Virginia, in 2021.