I posted the above footage almost three years ago. Many of the CAFOs featured would likely have been part of Smithfield's supply chain.
What most will not be aware of is that last year Smithfield was acquired by Chinese investment capital giant Shuanghei International.
This brings up many concerns for US citizens because now these Smithfield CAFOs which have been polluting their surrounding areas on a literally industrial scale are technically Chinese operations.
It also brings into question Donald Trump's hard line against China when he is forcing Smithfield workers back to work.
Of course at the core of this problem is global soy production which is the only viable feed for this scale of livestock production. As I'm sure most are now aware, vast areas of the Amazonian rain forest have and continue to be destroyed to make way for more soy production.
The following documentary goes into great detail about the Shuanghui / Smithfield takeover as well as the industrial scale soy production being employed in South America and the attempts to expand that production into Africa where the indiginous people barely have enough food to feed themselves as it is, let alone have their land ear-marked for mono-crops to be exported to feed animals in other countries.