Smithfield Hams is a terribly cruel company and its products should be avoided like the plague. Smithfield Hams or "Farms" is an atrociously abusive and immoral company. I know Smithfield Hams well, as I am the nephew of an assistant manager of a Smithfield Hams "farms". Smithfield Hams castrates and removes the tails of baby male pigs without anesthesia. Smithfield Foods confines mother pigs in metal crates for the entire time of their pregnancies. Each of these Smithfield crates is so tiny, just barely larger than the mother... read full review »