Ag Dept Imports China Chickens

NoNAIS.org ^ | 2006-01-28 | Walter Jeffries

[pubwvj]

While the USDA foists the National Animal Identification System (NAIS) on American consumers, farmers and livestock* the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is proposing importing chickens from China. Yes, that's right. Is that crazy enough? They want to tag and track all animals in the USA to prevent disease' and then import poultry from China where Avian Bird Flu (H5N1) has been killing millions of birds as well as some people. Wait a minute?!? Wasn't one of the justifications for NAIS to stop the spread of Avian Bird Flu???

Not only that, but the USDA wants to ship poultry to China, have it slaughtered and canned and then shipped back to the USA for consumption! What!?!

Does this make sense? Wait... sense... cents... Ah, think dollars! Now I understand! They're outsourcing more jobs so big corporations can use cheap Chinese labor to keep the prices down and make up for the increased costs of raising chickens under NAIS! Well that makes cents!!! I'm glad we've got that cleared up! As always, follow the money trail...

Of course, only big producers will be able to take advantage of this deal so all you small farmers are out of luck twice over. You get the increased cost of NAIS. Plus, you're faced with lower market prices for your product since the big producers will undercut you with cheap, Chinese, slave labor. Sounds like the USDA is going to screw small producers coming and going. Move along folks, nothing new here.

*Is there a difference I ask or does the Govi-Corp consider all of us livestock to be managed for their maximum profit?

[snowsislander]

You are correct: this importation of chickens from China is one of the great absurdities of the last year.

However, I am not sure that the reason is merely savings by large corporations, since we produce and process chickens quite inexpensively here in the U.S. I would not be surprised to find out that this is just part of our wheeling and dealing in trade agreements.