The earliest confirmed case of the H1N1 virus (swine flu) during the 2009 flu pandemic was in a five-year-old boy in La Gloria, Mexico, near several facilities operated by Granjas Carroll de Mexico, a Smithfield Foods subsidiary that processes 1.2 million pigs a year and employs 907 people [REF].
In December 2010, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) released an undercover video taken by one of its investigators inside a Smithfield Foods facility [REF].