RFK Jr. is revealing how a state senator in North Carolina – passed laws to protect a giant food company – then partnered up with the company to take over 28,000 farms and sell them to China, here’s the story:
RFK Jr said he spent 20 years suing the big factory farm producers like Tyson and Bob Bell – and then said that Smithfield Foods is one of the biggest pork producers in the world.
He explained how Smithfield went into the state of North Carolina, and built a slaughterhouse that could process 30,000 hogs a day.
They then partnered with a man named Wendell Murphy, who passed dozens of laws – while in the North Carolina State Senate – making it illegal to sue a factory farm.
After he passed the laws, he left the senate and went into partnership with Smithfield.
Smithfield created a way to raise pigs in warehouses called Murphy 1100’s, instead of raising them on farms.
They dropped the price of pork from $0.60 a pound to $0.02 a pound, putting all 28,000 independent hog farmers in the state out of business – replacing them with 20 to 100 factories, all of them either owned by Smithfield or contracted to Smithfield.
The only farmers who could stay in business were farmers that signed a contract, they mortgaged their homes to put the Murphy 1100s on their property and they lost all control.
RFK jr. said Smithfield dictates all their farming practices, gives them food, delivers the piglets, picks up the grown animals and takes them to slaughter.
Because they dropped the price in North Carolina, Iowa had to adopt the same system. They had to cave and now Smithfield controls of 80% of hog production in the country.
Then, they sold themselves to China, so now China owns all that hog production in America, it controls the landscapes – and gives Americans substandard food prompting RFK jr to say.
“And that’s the end of Thomas Jefferson’s vision of an American democracy rooted in tens of thousands of independent freeholds, each one owned by family farmers, each with a stake in our system of government, and that is a huge threat to American democracy.”
