rates to expand their meat consumption marsch why china didn't become a big meat consumer until the 20012002 period when its g.d.p. levels started to really dramatically. china's hunger for pool cues driving chinese companies to scour the world in search of new production facilities and expertise 'd. i think having us park market is very important and that's another reason why. now. why they love to acquire smithfield. america's largest port producer one that i think they wanted access to supply but you know from what i've heard from smithfield executives that they wanted to learn. the american pork operations work how we were able to produce. so much pork and so very little land and that means that this american industrialized style of producing pork is being exported to china. when it comes to industrial meat production china has caught up with the west. it's mechanized and operates on a mass scale. there is here $2.00 in 1961 this was a small slaughter house for chickens and other animals beginning in 1902 the government encouraged facilities like this to become more efficient. they allow