

The post also urges people to stay away from packages stating “prepared for,” “packaged by” or “imported by” and suggests that other food products like fruit cups, Steinfeld’s Pickles and canned mushrooms are not safe. “They ship it to you to buy and poison your families and friends,” the post alleges.Ī message to the Facebook user who shared the information was not returned. Other specific claims in the post included that fish on fish farms are fed raw sewage and raised in filthy conditions where food colorings and some flavorings are added and then sent to Canada and the U.S.

They can now be shipped there, but when they come back all that needs to be labeled is that they WERE RAISED IN THE USA.” “The hogs will still be raised here, but slaughtered and packaged for sale there before being sent back there,” the post reads. The post, which has been shared over 256,000 times as of April 14, is headlined with “read this before buying meat.” The March 21 Facebook post also urges people to refrain from buying food products such as Starkist Tuna, Green Giant frozen vegetables and grocery store garlic unless it is clearly marked from the USA or Canada. The post also says Smithfield Foods was recently sold to China. and sent to China to be slaughtered and packaged before coming back here. Smithfield Foods, an American meat-processing company, faces criticism in a claim shared by Facebook users saying hogs will be raised in the U.S. The hogs will be slaughtered and processed in China before being shipped back to the U.S. Watch Video: Coronavirus: Was your flu-like illness in December actually COVID-19? The claim: Smithfield Foods was recently sold to China with unanimous support of its stockholders.
