Ecologist: Pig Business charts the rise of Smithfield Foods, now the world's biggest pork producer, and its expansion into Poland and Romania where it dominates the industry, taking advantage of low capital costs, cheap labour and unenforced regulations. Both countries, expecting employment and the benefits of inward investment have woken up too late to the aggressive and predatory nature of a business whose profits go to global investors while stench, pollution, disease and bankruptcies are the costs paid......
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Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 18th, 2012
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