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Outrageous.

I can't believe this is happening.

1 posted on 11/02/2009 9:24:41 PM PST by Selene
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To: Selene
And, of course that chicken won't contain things like melamine, which was in the pet food, and infant formula.

Kidney failure, anyone?

2 posted on 11/02/2009 9:26:49 PM PST by elk
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Apparently, Tyson didn't give enough to the Obama campaign. /sarc>

Cheers!

3 posted on 11/02/2009 9:27:51 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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Agriculture used to be viewed as a militarily sensitive industry.

You can’t field a military without feeding them. Therefore we should never become dependent on foreign countries for food.

The only good news is that after all of the China food scares, few Americans are going to be willing to buy China raised chickens, FDA inspected or not.


4 posted on 11/02/2009 9:27:58 PM PST by DannyTN
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Why not? We already import American Pie from China /s


5 posted on 11/02/2009 9:28:15 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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"I can't believe this is happening."

We do have options in my neck of the woods. Chukar partridge, quail and cottontail rabbits. Grown in America and just a gunshot away. If I see a chicken with grown in China stamped on it's ass I'll take a pass.

10 posted on 11/02/2009 9:33:12 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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I read that American chicken producers are developing their own farms in China, then exporting the chicken to the states. So, it’ll say ‘Tyson,’ but come from China, where who knows what was done in the process.

There is enough filth in the American chicken production
process; we certainly don’t need to go to China to import impurities and sickness.

Just about every month I find another reason to stay vegan.


11 posted on 11/02/2009 9:34:14 PM PST by radiohead (Buy ammo, get your kids out of government schools, pray for the Republic.)
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"President Obama signed an appropriations bill Wednesday that clears the way for the imports by allowing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct in China the safety inspections U.S. law requires for any country exporting food to America."

Wow! That makes me feel better. We get outbreaks of Ecoli from Mexican produce and they are not halfway around the world.

16 posted on 11/02/2009 9:49:19 PM PST by blackbart.223 (I live in Northern Nevada. Reid doesn't represent me.)
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They had better have to clearly mark any chicken as originating in China so I can avoid it. I don’t even want to think of what kind of problems this will bring. And so what if we banned it outright, since they haven’t complied with even pet food regulations to date.


22 posted on 11/02/2009 9:53:13 PM PST by Mjaye
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at a time when American trade leadership is in question and protectionist pressures are mounting, even a small positive step like this is most welcome.

Yeah, our trade "leadership" is really in question. Our annual trade deficit is around $700 billion now, and $266 billion deficit with China in 2008.

And will these Chinese chicken products be labeled at to country of origin? Many have been blocking that bit of information for US consumers, for years.

23 posted on 11/02/2009 9:55:28 PM PST by Will88
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Anyone who buys Chinese chickens is an idiot.


28 posted on 11/02/2009 10:01:37 PM PST by nickcarraway
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I don’t even eat chicken now except a sinful KFC crispy occasionally. That stuff is full of hormones, drugs etc already, what’s the Chinese stuff going to contain.

Wish we could get a true free range 5 or 6lb bird to roast instead of plastic wrapped fryer “parts”. Yuk.


43 posted on 11/02/2009 10:33:56 PM PST by 1066AD
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Of course! They can't smuggle all the H5N1 infected birds into Vietnam, just can them up, freeze dry them, make 'turkey jerkey' out of them, and send them over...

I knew they'd figure out a way to get that virus over here...

44 posted on 11/02/2009 10:44:44 PM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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When we surrender our food production to communist countries then we are in deep deep trouble! I am putting on my tinfoil hat and suggesting that with all we have seen coming at us it seems as if Conress is not telling us everything! It is like they know that someone or something is holding a gun to our heads and if we do not conform to what ever world policies that are dictated to us then perhaps something bad will happen! America has been sold down the river! Short of a real revolution this crap will not stop untill The United States is no more.


49 posted on 11/03/2009 12:20:45 AM PST by timetostand (Defund the left!! Defund the Federal Beast!)
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Stand by for the worst outbreak of salmonella in this country’s history.


51 posted on 11/03/2009 3:02:01 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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Allowing the Chinese to poison the American population with the governments, ok. Nice! Anyone out there getting the drift. Our tax moneys going to China to invest in wind turbines built in China by the Chinese to be used in a Texas wind farm, nice. Biden at ribbon cutting ceremony in his HOME STATE OF DELAWARE for a new GM plant opening, why how transparently convienient, why not Michigan? A trillion dollar healthcare bill to cover 2 million of the 395 million people in America, sounds econmically sound, don’t it? I’m just rambling in disbelief! get the hell out and vote!


52 posted on 11/03/2009 4:05:21 AM PST by ronnie raygun (Leaders who refuse to lead will be lead by the people)
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So selling us filthy seafood is not enough?


53 posted on 11/03/2009 4:10:00 AM PST by Artemis Webb
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I don’t want to put anything in my body that comes from China!


55 posted on 11/03/2009 4:17:04 AM PST by RoadTest ( But when ye pray, use not vain repetitions, as the heathen do)
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OMG!! CHINESE CHICKEN???? This is DISGUSTING!!


57 posted on 11/03/2009 4:19:26 AM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion,,,,,,the Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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Nope....never never never going to eat anything imported from China.

I’ve called the toll free number on packages while I am in the grocery store to be sure what I am buying did not originate in China.


62 posted on 11/03/2009 5:27:02 AM PST by GatorGirl (Eschew Socialism!)
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Chickens are OK, but a tariff on Chinese tires? The problem is the chickens need to unionize.


64 posted on 11/03/2009 5:45:31 AM PST by jaydubya2
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