Armour and Company
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Armour & Company was an American company and was one of the five leading firms in the meat packing industry. It was founded in Chicago, in 1863, by the Armour brothers led by Philip Danforth Armour. B
View of Armour & Company's plant and stock yards from a balloon, c. 1910
Hanging room, Armour's packing house, Chicago, 1896
Postcard of the Armour Packing Plant in Fort Worth, undated
Miss Oak Ridge Tennessee 1947 wins an Armour smoked ham
Smithfield Foods
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Smithfield Foods, Inc., is an American pork producer and food-processing company based in Smithfield, Virginia, and majority owned by Hong Kong based WH Group. Founded in 1936 as the Smithfield Packin
Armour and Company
…pharmaceuticals (Armour Pharmaceuticals) and soap manufacturing, introducing Dial soap in 1948. Presently, the Armour food brands are split between Smithfield Foods (for refrigerated meat, Armour Meats) and ConAgra Brands (for canned shelf-stable meat products, Armour Star). The Armour pharmaceutical brand is owned…
Smithfield processing plant in Smithfield, Virginia
Smithfield/Circle Four pig farms in the Utah desert.
Smithfield CAFO, Unionville, Missouri, 2013
Sows used for breeding are confined in 7 ft x 2 ft gestation crates. This image was taken inside a Smithfield facility in Virginia in 2010.