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Now That Obama Is Allowing Chicken From China, What Will That Do To The Chicken Industry?
Mens News Daily ^ | 12/11/2013 | Michael Snyder

Posted on 12/12/2013 4:32:21 AM PST by IbJensen

Do you know what is in your chicken nuggets? Thanks to Barack Obama, that is going to be a more important question than ever.

At the end of August, the Obama administration quietly decided to start allowing Chinese poultry processors to ship processed chicken into the United States. For now, the meat must originate either in the United States or in another country where the poultry population has been certified to be safe. What that means is that chickens from the United States will be shipped all the way over to China, processed in plants over there, and then shipped back across the Pacific Ocean for us to eat.

Only a limited number of companies are expected to take advantage of this, but according to U.S. Senator Charles Schumer, a USDA report that Congress has seen indicates that China will likely be allowed to directly import their own chickens into this country "within a year". What makes all of this even more disturbing is that a country-of-origin label will not be required on any of the chicken that is processed in China. So in the years ahead you could be eating chicken processed in China and not even know it.

Each year, U.S. consumers spend about 70 billion dollars on chicken. That is a tremendous amount of money, and the U.S. chicken industry supports a huge number of jobs.

So what is going to happen if cheap chicken from China starts flooding the market?

It shouldn't take too much imagination to figure out what is going to happen. This is a movie that we have seen too many times before. Over the past decade, tens of thousands of U.S. businesses and millions of good paying jobs have been lost due to "competition" from communist China.

Barack Obama continues to talk a good game about how he wants to "create jobs" for American workers, but just about everything that he actually does kills even more of our jobs.

Under tremendous pressure from both China and the beef industry, Obama decided in late August to open up the door for processed chicken from China. The following is a brief excerpt from a recent Examiner article...

As early as next summer, chicken nuggets and other chicken products (such as canned soup, frozen chicken wings and breaded chicken patties) made from chicken processed in China could be sold in grocery stores around the country.

Under the proposal, chickens that are raised and slaughtered in the U.S. and Canada will be sent to China for processing and then returned to the U.S. for mass consumption.

This was a recent decision made by President Barack Obama to address a decade-long trade dispute. Since 2003, China has refused to import U.S. beef, citing concerns over mad-cow disease, so we're effectively trading chickens for beef in this quid-pro-quo political scenario. Obama has been widely criticized over this move.

This would be bad enough even if U.S. consumers were able to identify the chicken that is coming in from China. But according to Politico, there will be no requirement that chicken processed in China be labeled as such...

Well, for starters Chinese-processed chicken will be allowed to skip the ‘Product of China’ label in several instances because the country of origin labeling law, or “COOL,” does not regulate cooked meat — and at least for now, the U.S. does not import raw chicken raised and/or slaughtered in China.

A lot of people are very upset about this because there have been some huge safety concerns about food coming from China. Just check out the following examples included in a recent Huffington Post article...

Among those critics is Tony Corbo, a senior lobbyist for the advocacy group Food and Water Watch. “This is the first step towards allowing China to export its own domestic chickens to the U.S.,” he told the Times.

Corbo has reason to be concerned; in the last months alone, Chinese police discovered an illegal food smuggling plot to sell 46-year-old chicken feet treated with bleach, a criminal ring accused of selling rat and fox meat as lamb and abnormally high levels of cadmium, a metal that can cause cancer and other illnesses, in rice sold in Guangzhou restaurants.

And the safety incidents the Dallas Morning News recently discussed are more than a little bit alarming...

Tilapia and cod are raised in ponds and dosed with antibiotics and growth hormones. Imported Chinese apple juice reportedly contains three times the federal limit for arsenic in water. U.S. inspectors have also found tainted mushrooms and garlic.

The communist behemoth raised and shipped 80 percent of the tilapia consumed in this country in 2011, 51 percent of the cod, 49 percent of the apple juice, 34 percent of the processed mushrooms and 27 percent of the garlic.

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The European Union reported that China shipped potatoes infested with insects, ginger laced with salmonella, pumpkin seeds containing glass chips and frozen calamari contaminated by arsenic to Europe last year.

USDA officials halted imports of Chinese shrimp, eel, catfish and carp in 2007 because of high levels of illegal antibiotics and chemicals. Three years later, officials seized thousands of pounds of Chinese honey after finding illegal antibiotics. And this year, more than 500 dogs and a handful of cats died after eating jerky treats made of chicken, according to an investigation by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

In light of all of these incidents, shouldn't U.S. consumers be able to clearly identify chicken that is coming from China?

Authorities tell us that we can expect to have chicken from China starting to show up on our store shelves this upcoming summer. Apparently, the big advantage of processing chicken in China is the lower cost...

Processing chicken is a labor-intensive endeavor that can’t be done solely by machines and the “lower cost in China is the advantage,” Chris Hurt, a professor of agricultural economics at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, said in a telephone interview. Those savings in labor costs can counterbalance the higher price tag to ship the end product, Hurt said.

And most Americans don't realize this, but China already sends 4 billion pounds of food to the United States every year.

So why don't we just go ahead and get it all over with and just send all of our jobs over to China right now?

After all, very few people seem to be concerned about the fate of average American workers at this point. Things just continue to get even worse for them, and the middle class is being absolutely eviscerated.

Let's just go ahead and ship the rest of our good paying jobs over there and be done with it. Then we can all cut hair, flip burgers and stock shelves at Wal-Mart.

And most Americans already know that something has gone terribly wrong with our economy.

According to a brand new Bloomberg National Poll, 64 percent of all Americans believe that "the U.S. no longer offers everyone an equal chance to get ahead", and according to a different national survey that was recently conducted 68 percent of all Americans believe that the country is currently on the wrong track.

We are a nation that is absolutely drowning in debt, that has a financial system that has been turned into a high stakes casino, and that has a middle class that is being systematically destroyed.

Personally, I am extremely concerned about this upcoming two year time period. The conditions for a "perfect storm" are all coming together for 2014 and 2015. I believe that this nation (and the world) will look far different two years from now than it does today.

Our system is failing and our politicians are only making things worse.

Buckle up and hold on to your hats, because the next couple of years are going to be a very bumpy ride.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Government
KEYWORDS: chickencrap; chinachicken; chinesechicken; evilobamaregime; nochinesechicken
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If the cretin can't kill us one way he'll use another.

I would think that producers Purdue, Pilgrims Pride and a few others will never go this evil route. Tyson? Not so sure.

When Lucifer gets busy contaminating our food supply isn't that enough to cause our pathetic Congress to act against this lying phony?

1 posted on 12/12/2013 4:32:21 AM PST by IbJensen
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To: IbJensen

Send all the illegal aliens in search of more jobs “Americans won’t do”.


2 posted on 12/12/2013 4:39:13 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: IbJensen
When Lucifer gets busy contaminating our food supply isn't that enough to cause our pathetic Congress to act against this lying phony?

Congress won't do a thing. Whether Demonrat or RepublicRat, they've already boarded the handbasket to hell.

3 posted on 12/12/2013 4:40:23 AM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: IbJensen

You really have to read the labeling. I purchased a can of crab meat and to my surprise it was packaged in Indonesia. Returned it for a refund.


4 posted on 12/12/2013 4:40:50 AM PST by duckman (I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
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To: IbJensen

The question should be, what will it do to our health?


5 posted on 12/12/2013 4:41:03 AM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: IbJensen

So we can’t butcher our chickens in our country any more? Of course, the Chinese food processors, who kill children with tainted milk and our pets with tainted pet snacks, will take our chicken, butcher it, and ship it back to us, while they eat their contaminated chicken. Only Obama is stupid enough to believe this.

They are deathly afraid of bird flu in China, for good reason, so what did they give our USDA in payment for our healthy chickens? What carrot or stick was given to U.S. poultry producers to sign off on this outrageous deal?

We will not buy chicken that is labeled as being processed in China, so will they label it, or is “mystery meat” part of this rotten deal?


6 posted on 12/12/2013 4:42:04 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: IbJensen

On the list of top 100,000 industries, business sectors that Obama will get to vaporize off the face of the American economic landscape never to be seen or heard from again, you’re worried about chicken? CHICKEN???


7 posted on 12/12/2013 4:42:06 AM PST by lbryce (Obama:The Worst is Yet To Come)
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To: lbryce

On the list of top 100,000 industries, business sectors that Obama will get to vaporize off the face of the American economic landscape never to be seen or heard from again, you’re worried about chicken? CHICKEN???

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of course, all of the economy is an issue, this is a public health issue as well as an economic issue. I will no longer eat a chix I have not met personally prior to processing.


8 posted on 12/12/2013 4:46:42 AM PST by Chickensoup (we didn't love freedom enough... Solzhenitsyn.)
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To: txrefugee

Unfortunately the labeling is pretty much worthless anyway. Additives in food don’t have labels and most of them came from somewhere else.

Like the pet food. The wheat gluten came from American wheat that was shipped to China where they made the gluten and added the melamine before shipping it back to us.


9 posted on 12/12/2013 4:52:12 AM PST by cripplecreek (REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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To: IbJensen

Here is a question for you chicken lovers:

What happened to DARK MEAT?

The reason I ask is that the “dark meat” in the chicken thighs I can buy looks a lot more like the meat from chicken breasts than it did even just a few years ago. The meat still has more fat than a chicken breast but the meat is very white.

Something has changed with how we raise and feed chickens and at least for me it is a little scary. I’ve cut down on eating chicken as a result.


10 posted on 12/12/2013 4:53:15 AM PST by InterceptPoint
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To: IbJensen

If the chicken isn’t going to be labeled from China—then I am not going to buy chicken anymore. That will be a problem because I use chicken to cook my dogs food.


11 posted on 12/12/2013 4:55:58 AM PST by Irenic (The pencil sharpener and Elmer's glue is put away-- we've lost the red wheel barrow)
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To: lbryce

For this thread, yes.


12 posted on 12/12/2013 4:56:26 AM PST by healy61
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To: All

“CHICKITY CHINA, THE CHINESE CHICKEN,
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin!”

I guess there was something to that song.


13 posted on 12/12/2013 4:56:33 AM PST by PizzaTheHut
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To: IbJensen

Picking up a chicken coop Saturday, hen’s in the Spring.


14 posted on 12/12/2013 4:58:08 AM PST by G Larry (Let his days be few; and let another take his office. Psalms 109:8)
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To: IbJensen

Continue to buy Kosher?


15 posted on 12/12/2013 4:59:29 AM PST by miss marmelstein (Richard Lives Yet!)
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To: IbJensen

Somebody check and see if Michelle made $100k trading cattle futures.


16 posted on 12/12/2013 5:00:27 AM PST by PLMerite (Shut the Beyotch Down! Burn, baby, burn!)
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To: lbryce

Yes, I am worried about chicken. I am worried about any food or skin product from China. Skin lotions, toothpaste, etc., get into your system just as food does.

Read all labels, buy nothing from the grocery store or ‘Dollar Store’ that China as country of origin. China has very poor controls on all products.

And good luck to us all.


17 posted on 12/12/2013 5:00:40 AM PST by Not gonna take it anymore (If Obama were twice as smart as he is, he would be a wit)
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To: IbJensen

Not just chicken...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smithfield_Foods,_Inc.#Company_profile

On 29 May 2013, Shuanghui, a Chinese company, announced a purchase of all of the stock of Smithfield Foods, Inc. for approximately $4.72 billion.[18] It was also announced by Shuanghui that it would list Smithfield on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange after completing the takeover.[19] On 6 September 2013 the U.S. government approved Shuanghui International Holding’s purchase of Smithfield Food, Inc. The deal was valued approximately $7.1 billion. It was the biggest Chinese takeover of a U.S. company to date.[20]


18 posted on 12/12/2013 5:00:50 AM PST by ltc8k6
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To: IbJensen
When Lucifer gets busy contaminating our food supply isn't that enough to cause our pathetic Congress to act against this lying phony?

No, it's not. When the fiddler made a deal with the devil, there was no contractual clause to allow him an out. He learned to fiddle and the devil owned his soul.

Our Congressional "representatives" and Senators have chosen to turn a blind eye to the goings on in DC. They have chosen to breach their oaths of office and allow America's enemies both within and without to dismantle America piece by piece.

At this point, if America were a car, we would be without wheels. Our battery was removed and sold for lead scrap. The interior's been shredded. The radio's torn out of the dash. The rearview mirror was ripped from the windshield. The electrical wiring's been salvaged and sold for the copper. The oil pan is leaking from the gasket, but that doesn't matter, because the oil was drained long ago, the fuel was siphoned out of the gas tank, and the radiator blew out and leaked coolant all over the road when Obama was elected to a second term.

The progressives have used and continue to use every possible avenue to destroy not just America and the idea of America but the actual American people are now targeted for extermination through the forced use of garbage insurance, death panels, and now questionable poultry. They literally want to kill off those of us who work hard and LOVE being American to replace us with the dregs of societies around the world and specifically central America where crime is a way of life.

It's over, bud. Pray you're spared.

19 posted on 12/12/2013 5:02:36 AM PST by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: miss marmelstein

I would.

Sticking to specific brands from producers that we know would never sacrifice their integrity. Purdue comes instantly to mind.


20 posted on 12/12/2013 5:02:41 AM PST by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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