Nashville Clergy will ask H.G Hill to drop the controversial pork product produced by Smithfield in Tar Heel, North Carolina, the world's largest pork processing plant.  Legal rulings found that Smithfield assaulted, intimidated, threatened, illegally fired and used racial epithets against its workers in Tar Heel.   Human Rights Watch has documented widespread dangerous working conditions in two reports on the plant in 2000 and 2005.  The plight of the 5,000 workers has received support from Danny Glover, Susan Sarandon, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Harry Belafonte and Judge Great Mathis who formed a Committee to Defend the Smithfield workers and numerous faith, labor, consumer, student and civil rights groups around the country.

 “We believe that we have a moral duty in Nashville to speak out and ask our retail establishments to not support this abuse of our fellow Americans.  This product is far too common in our city”  Says the Reverend Gwen Brown Felder of Ernest Newman United Methodist Church in Nashville.

Supermarkets in Boston, Michigan and North Carolina have already discontinued the product following consumer protest. 

“As people of faith, we will not stop our efforts until the abuse stops,” says Reverend Henry Blaze, of Progressive Baptist Church.