Smithfield Foods CEO C. Larry Pope compared ethanol usage to “burning the carpet in your house to stay warm in the winter,” while speaking at a conference, according to reports.
Smithfield Foods, whose revenues exceeded $12 billion in fiscal 2009, has seen profits from hog production decline. Pope attributes this to competition for grain resources, a commodity also used by ethanol.
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