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Smithfield Foods, Inc. Type Public (NYSE: SFD) Founded 1936 Headquarters Smithfield, Virginia Key people Joseph W. Luter, III (Chairman), C. Larry Pope (CEO) Industry Food Products Meat Revenue $11 Billion USD Employees 51,000 Website www.smithfieldfoods.com Smithfield Foods, Inc. is the world’s largest pork producer and Smithfield started as Smithfield Packing Company, now its largest subsidiary, and grew by acquiring companies such as Farmland Foods, Eckrich, and Premium Standard Farms. Smithfield many familiar brands also include Butterball, John Morrell, Gwaltney, Patrick Cudahy, Krakus, Cook's Ham, and Stefano’s. In February 2009, the company announced that it planned to close six plants and to reduce the number of its independent operating companies to three, from seven.[1] Contents [hide] 1 Environmental record 2 Labor issues 3 Sow crates 4 Farrowing crates 5 The Nursery, the Finishing Buildings, the Sow Cycles 6 Charitable giving 7 See also 8 References 9 External links // Environmental record Agriculture General Agribusiness · Agriculture Agricultural science · Agronomy Animal husbandry Extensive farming Factory farming · Free range Industrial agriculture Intensive farming Organic farming · Permaculture Sustainable agriculture Urban agriculture History History of agriculture Neolithic Revolution Muslim Agricultural Revolution British Agricultural Revolution Green Revolution Particular Aquaculture · Dairy farming Grazing · Hydroponics · IMTA Intensive pig farming · Lumber Maize · Orchard Poultry farming · Ranching · Rice Sheep husbandry · Soybean System of Rice Intensification Wheat Categories Agriculture by country Agriculture companies Agriculture companies, U.S. Biotechnology Farming history Livestock Meat processing Poultry farming Agropedia portal This box: view • talk • edit Smithfield has come under criticism for the millions of gallons of fecal matter that it produces and stores in holding ponds, untreated. In a four year period, in North Carolina alone, 4.7 million gallons of hog fecal matter were released into the state's rivers. Workers and residents near Smithfield plants have reported health problems, and have complained about constant, overpowering stenches of hog feces.[2] In 1997, Smithfield was fined $12.6 million for violation of the federal Clean Water Act.[3] "The fine was the third-largest civil penalty ever levied under the act by the EPA. It amounted to .035 percent of Smithfield's annual sales." The hog industry in North Carolina came under scrutiny in 1999 when Hurricane Floyd flooded much of the eastern part of the state, including a number of | ||||
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