is US about to be a factory farm for China

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http://m.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2013/05/chinas-biggest-meat-c-swallows-us-pork-giant-smithfield

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NPR had a program on it today.

Export only, apparently.

Chinese don't trust their local factory pigs. They will now get some US CAFO pigs full of all kinds of chemical/biological shit)

quite a bit premium over the stock price. I bet some hedge funds were illegally, secretly alerted to the deal, as per usual.