Food crisis gatecrashes ADB
By ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH C. Larry Pope looked out from the podium on more than 100 hog farmers and delivered a grim assessment of the industry's risks: recalls, bio-security hazards, animal-welfare scandals stirred up by undercover spies, and regulators pressured to crack down. "We're in a zero-tolerance world, and it scares me," Pope, chief executive of Smithfield Foods Inc., said at the National Pork Industry Forum this month in St. Louis. Later, he cautioned: "We have to be aware of what people think of us outside." The warning, aimed at pork producers in general, could as easily have...
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