Smithfield Should Bail Out Pools of Hog Waste, Not Ask for a Bailout
Allowing hog producer Smithfield Foods, which is wholly owned by China’s WH Group, to apply for relief from a U.S. taxpayer-funded bailout program designed to shield U.S. farmers from retaliatory tariffs from China is absurd. We should require this corporation to use its own money to stop polluting, not subsidize it while it continues to harm North Carolina’s people and natural resources.
November 1, 2018 | Source: The Washington Post | by Will Hendrick
Regarding the Oct. 24 news article “Will farm bailout help foreign firms?”:
Allowing hog producer Smithfield Foods, which is wholly owned by China’s WH Group, to apply for relief from a U.S. taxpayer-funded bailout program designed to shield U.S. farmers from retaliatory tariffs from China is absurd. We should require this corporation to use its own money to stop polluting, not subsidize it while it continues to harm North Carolina’s people and natural resources.