Should avoid its products like you avoid any swine flu. Don't support this evil company Smithfield Farms. Don't increase its profit from practices that violate laws of cruelty to animals. Smithfield Farms endangers the public good with the diseases it generates. The Smithfield Foods plant in Mexico (la Gloria) is the prime suspect as the source of the 2009 swine flu outbreak! Smithfield Foods confines mother pigs in sow crates for all their pregnancy. The baby pigs are mutilated, de-tailed, castrated without painkillers. Because the pigs are fed massive amounts of growth hormones and confined to tiny pens, Smithfield Farms is able to slaughter its pigs when they are but several months old. Smithfield Hams produces pigs like this by the millions. Please inform yourself of this horrific company Smithfield Farms.