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Default CNBC says Smithfield has a Chinese buyout offer

On 29/05/2013 3:50 PM, notbob wrote:
> On 2013-05-29, Sqwertz > wrote:
>
>> The company that's trying to buy Smithfield was caught in a scandal
>> last year butchering and selling diseased pork that were quarantined
>> by the agriculture ministry and were supposed to be trashed.

>
> I'm shocked! (not)
>




I wonder if the alleged Chinese investors have considered that if they
buy Smithfield most normal, informed Americans simply won't buy it. I
don't know about the rest of the people here, but I am reluctant to buy
goods produced in China and I absolutely refuse to buy food products
from China.