The residents living near the Smithfield Foods hog-packing
plant at Pinewood Heights in Smithfield, Virginia, have been given $1 million
by the state to relocate.
Residents say relocation can't come soon enough.
Pinewood Heights is behind the Smithfield Foods meat-packing
plant northwest of the town's historic district and sits next to foul-smelling
hog-waste lagoons.
Smithfield is the largest pork packer in the Western world
and is owned by a Chinese company, the WH Group Limited.
It is, in turn, owned by state-controlled Shanghui.
