Within the United States, Smithfield Food Inc. contracts with over 2,000 farms where independent farmers produced famous pigs and pork. On top of that, Smithfield owns 500 pig farms of its own. And remember, that’s only within the United States! Smithfield Food Inc. is a global corporation, producing pigs and pork in Mexico, Poland, Romania, Germany and the UK. The company employs over 50,000 people in its many facilities around the world. There are meat processing plants in Tarheel, North Carolina was reported to be the world’s largest, at 973,000 square feet. That plant alone processes 32,000 pigs every day.
