Reuters Smithfield Foods has stopped slaughtering pigs in its local plant in the United States. (Reuters) – CHICAGO (Reuters) – Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork processor, has halted pig killing in the so-called “ham capital” of the United States, where the firm was founded 85 years ago. Smithfield Foods said in a statement that the end of slaughtering in Smithfield, Virginia, is the latest reconfiguration for the company’s eponymous plant and comes after a months-long internal examination of its East Coast operations. According to Keira Lombardo, chief administrative officer, the business, which is controlled by Hong Kong-listed WH Group, is relocating slaughtering to some of its 47 other U.S. sites and investing $5 million to improve the Virginia plant to make more packaged bacon, ham, and other pig products./n
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