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Brooke Rollins: “Smithfield, they purchased, which was the largest pork…”

Featuring: Brooke Rollins, Republican | United States Secretary of Agriculture | National

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Brooke Rollins Blows the Lid Off Biden's USDA

Published | Video Starts at 26:09

They purchased Syngenta, which is basically. There's no other purveyor of seeds, and some of the other crop protectant. How did we even look at that in the world? How did this happen? Smithfield, they purchased, which was the largest pork company in America. That basically controls about a fifth of our pork in America now owned by the Chinese. Brazil, with our meat processing, we have a beef price issue today in America. But part of that is because only four companies control about 85% of the processing of beef. (26:09–26:22)

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Asserts that Smithfield, a major pork company, is owned by China and controls a significant portion of U.S. pork.

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