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| | Justice at Smithfield Campaign |
 | | Smithfield Foods is the largest pork producer and processor in the world, the fourth largest turkey processor and fifth largest beef processor in the U.S." It is headquartered in the town of Smithfield, Virginia, but its operations stretch across the United States, Mexico, and much of Europe. |
 | | Smithfield slaughters hogs at seven plants in the U.S. (five in the Midwest and two in the Southeast), with a current slaughter capacity of 101,000 hogs per day." The largest of these facilities is in Tar Heel, North Carolina, where approximately 5,500 workers slaughter and process 32,000 hogs a day. |
 | | At Smithfield's pork plants, 18,000 of the approximately 31,800 employees are unionized-about 56%. |
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