“Don’t buy pork” imported from Mexico, implores Renato Romero, a Mexican farmer who is leading a resistance effort against the transnational company Smithfield Foods, which is headquartered in Virginia but runs hog farms and processing plants in Mexico. In June, state security forces in Mexico killed two members of a farmer-led movement resisting the giant pork producer, which has left local…
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