Just Say No to Smithfield Pork Products |
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| By: Katherine Graham Cracker Sunday May 10, 2009 4:08 pm | |
In 2003 Robert F Kennedy spoke out against Smithfield’s practices. But nothing has happened to change things and now things are much worse.
Money talks and pig sh-t should walk! Just say no to Paula Deen and Smithfield.
It’s not even the same great Smithfield ham –now it’s just a processed imitation.
And a big shout out to Oakland Forage –a great project that ends waste, gets more fruit in people’s diets and brings neighbors together…can’t beat that.
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Thanks for the heads up, Katherine. Wow, 2003 RFK was raising consciousness. Why does truth have a glacial time being learned? Oakland Forage was a nice counterpoint to the frustration. Will pass both stories on.
Seconded and recommended.
I tried to educate myself a little about Smithfield starting in 2006 when the United Food and Commercial Workers union were running a corporate campaign against the company. This company is a textbook example of corporate greed gone wild. The union was ultimately successful in its organizing efforts at Smithfield’s giant hog kill plant in North Carolina, but the company has a long, long way to go before it can claim to be a good corporate citizen.
By successful …the giant hog plant in N.C. was an environmental nighmare. Their plant in N.C. employed illegal Mexicans. Lots of injuries with no health insurance.
Could there be more clueless folks McDonalds gaves Smithfield an award for corporate citizenship–
Quite so…the success of UFCW in organizing that particular plant says nothing about Smithfield’s destructive environmental policies or its brutally exploitive labor practices. Its also instructive to note that Smithfield fought the union tooth and nail in NC for ten years before finally reaching an agreement.