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Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat

What Doesn't Kill You

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The Batista Brothers - The CFS Committee for Foreign Investment

The Batista Brothers saga is both fascinating and horrifying. They still own some 250 companies in 30 countries. And when you talk about Smithfield, I mean, there's also the billionaire, when long, who's who's who of the major owner. The Chinese government controls everything. It's like we're giving away the store here. We're giving them our water. We are giving them our feed supplies. We're in our environment away. There have been calls for years and years. Partly so I want to write this book is because I've seen the letters being written to Janet Yellen and other federal regulators begging for investigations into the Batista's investments.

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