CHINA PORK SCANDAL

China's control of the U.S. pork market is a scandal! Somehow in the space of a few decades China has gone from not being able to keep itself stocked with pork to owning a big part of the U.S. pork supply. How did a bunch of Communists end up running a big part of the our agriculture economy you might ask? Let's talk about it.

 

From this 2013 article we learn that the Chinese like Iowa pork and it is convienent to buy as Iowa Govenor, now ambassador to China, had long since paved the way.

DES MOINES, Iowa -- Wang Cheng You came to Iowa to buy. He wants 1,000 breeding hogs, and he wants them in a hurry.

The farm manager from Iowa's sister state in China, Hebei, quizzed breeders Wednesday at the World Pork Expo, trying to find who could accommodate such a large order. His desire could cost $3,000 per boar or $1,000 per sow, not including blood tests, quarantine costs, and a one-way ticket to fly the hogs, which could weigh 180 to 300 pounds by the time they're ready.

Wang said he likes Iowa pork because of its high survivability rate and disease resistance. And he needs to double the size of his breeding herd to fulfill demand for protein in China, the world's largest consumer of pork.

 

As the USA TODAY article points out some people had concerns:

 

 "In the short run, this kind of thing probably looks really good to farmers in Iowa," said Peter Navarro, a business professor at the University of California-Irvine. The bottom line: "Do we want China to basically gain partial or full control of our food supply at some point?"

 Yes the same Peter Navarro who currently serves as the Assistant to the President, and Director of Trade and Manufacturing Policy.

Man, I love this President. As we can see China was position itself back in 2013 to be a major pork producer and it seems that some pork producers in Iowa were more then happy to sell the goose that laid the golden egg, just to make a quick buck!

There was a long history of this short sighted stupidity though going all the way back to Iowa's govenor Terry Branstad. Branstad is well liked by the Chi-Coms according to THE GUARDIAN.

“Governor Branstad is an old friend of the Chinese people. We welcome him to play a great role in promoting the development of China-US relations,” foreign ministry spokesperson Lu Kang told reporters in Beijing.

 

The article goes on to soft sell the fact that Branstad welcomed the current Chinese dictator when he came to Iowa back in 1985 on his first trip trying to learn how factory farms worked. Iowa being the epicenter for factory farm raised pork offered the kind of production scale that China, a third world country, could only dream about. No problem as Branstad was only too happy to throw open the kitchen doors and let the Chi-Coms take what the needed.

Branstad has known Xi since 1985, when Xi visited Iowa as a young regional government official leading an agricultural research delegation. Branstad was governor at the time, and the pair remained in contact. In 2011, Branstad visited Beijing and met with Xi at the Great Hall of the People; a year later, when he was vice-president, Xi stopped in Muscatine, Iowa, where he met his host family from the 1985 trip.

Fast forward 34 years and we see that the humble commie hog farmer is now the dictator of China and the Chinese Commuists have gone from not being able to produce pork at industrial scale to owning the largest pork producing companies in the United States! 

This from a 2013 report:   

Smithfield Farms, the U.S. pork producer and maker of hams, is getting acquired by Shuanghui International.Smithfield stockholders will get $34 per share. The stock is up 25% in pre-market trading.China is the world's largest producer and consumer of pork.

 

And the American farmers who constantly complain of how badly they are treated happily sell out their birthright as they no longer own the very pigs they raise. Because the Chi-Com's can't legally own the land in places like Iowa they conspire with local factory farmers to build hog factory's on a rent to own basis where the the Chi-Com's let the farmers act like share croppers owning the land while they raise their master's hogs at a fixed price which results in a fixed profit. No longer can farmers reap huge rewards when pork prices skyrocket but they also don't risk bankruptcy.

 

Now let's talk about supply. Is it a good idea for the Communist Chinese government to be in control of a huge part of America's food supply? Well no!

Right now China is really from an epidemic of pig flu. Who would have thought that the Communist Chinese would be too stupid to practice the kind of practices needed in raising pigs in a factory farm. What happens now when the world population of pigs crashes and the the pork supply plummets. Are you okay with the Communist Chinese owning what's left of the world's pigs? Me neither.