In 1862, when a new method of curing bacon was developed it was immediately employed by Irish pork processors.

Another large Irish pork processor of the era, O'Mara's, meanwhile set up bacon curing facilities in Russia in 1891.

Smithfield Foods is the world's largest pork processor and producer.

"Hogtown", related to the livestock that was processed in Toronto, largely by the city's largest pork processor and packer, the William Davies Company.

When federal immigration officials raided six plants owned by Swift & Company, the world's second largest beef and pork processor, last Tuesday, they brought Spanish translators.

Cargill Inc., one of the nation's biggest food processors, made a bid today to acquire Farmland Foods, a big pork processor, for $385 million in cash.

Last year, Farmland Foods was the nation's sixth-largest pork processor with sales of about $1.8 billion.

And in January, the world's largest pork processor, Smithfield Foods, said it would phase out confinement of pigs in metal crates over the next decade.

On this road are the municipality's main industries: the sugar, and paper mills, the pork processor and rice fields.

Dairies and pork processors are a growing business.