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Default CNBC says Smithfield has a Chinese buyout offer

On May 29, 2:46*pm, Sqwertz > wrote:
> On 29 May 2013 18:43:00 GMT, notbob wrote:
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> > On 2013-05-29, Sqwertz > wrote:

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> >> Hopefully they put Paula Dean on the ship with the next outbound herd.

>
> > Is she desicated enough, now? *

>
> > Pretty funny. *China won't buy our poisoned pork, but has no problem
> > selling us tainted toothpaste and dubious dogfood.

>
> 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.



Damn, the Chinese are learning the nuts and bolts of capitalism in a
hurry, aren't they?