Posted on 12/12/2013 4:32:21 AM PST by IbJensen
Thanks-
it seems like where ever I shop- for what ever I shop for from things at Home Depot or Lowes or Costco- and food markets- I see “china “ on a good majority of products- more the last few years than ever before. Even the solar panels that I just ordered and just arrived. It’s actually sickening. We need to start manufacturing here in America again and NOW.
Thanks!
Even then, I thought, good luck.....but I admired his standards!
I used to eat them in my 20s and 30s but now my digestive system rebels against them, and the salt and fat is too high anyway.
The problem is they are very convenient and cooking is not.
Now Instead when I dont want to cook I will go to supermarket deli and buy a pound of low salt no MSG baked Turkey and use that as part of my meal.
This may not be accurate. Just as Milk/Meat producers are not allowed to Label their Products “Tested and Free” of Mad Cow disease, the regulation put forth may contain restrictions on labeling.
Also, NPR did a piece on this in June in which:
Large stakeholders (Chicken Farmers) were happy with this proposal because it would allow them to get rid of Chicken Feet which do not sell for a premium in the United States.
My concerns include all of the by-products that will not be used in the States driving up costs. Bones, feathers, internals are utilized in many products including animal feed. Without those sources - what will replace that or will we just import these back from China (who most likely desperately needs them)?
Avian flu chicken virus from China? Chickens raised under Chinese sanitary conditions?
I wouldn’t be surprised if Obama started an epidemic here in the USA that killed thousands of people, possibly hundreds of thousands.
Don’t we have laws against this?
“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.”
Read the article. They WON’T be required to state country where it was processed. You won’t know.
Here in SC it’s relatively easy to get a permit to sell processed home grown chickens. Personally we raise all our own meat and vegetables.
See post 64.
Oh, Lawdy! Help save us from that horrible free market! Please President Perot, rescue us!
The chickens is comin’! The chickens is comin’!
“The late Chuck Colson (Prison Ministries) said...many years ago, ‘I will not buy anything from China’.....
Even then, I thought, good luck.....but I admired his standards! “
Agree. One thing I do agree with liberals though - I don’t shop Walmart. Not because “they pay crap wages” blah-blah...but because they sell too damn many things from China. You can’t compete with essentially slave labor, and they really don’t give a crap about safety standards. When Walmart was first founded they prided themselves on promoting American goods. Long time past that.
I do this. I don’t can due to inability to lift the canner and having a glass top stove. Right now I am overloaded with carcasses and need to find a day to make stock. I save all veggie scraps and the liquid from canned veggies for this, too. No need for much salt at all as the canned liquid is salty. I much prefer my own. I agree about freezing in ziplocks. I place them on a cookie sheet until they are solid and then stack them in the freezer. The ice cubes just go into small zips.
I try to keep canned stock around in case of power outages that would impact the freezers. I have taken the advice of FReepers and cut off the wings of whole chickens, add them to the wings found in family packs and then don’t have to pay $2+/lb for wings. I also freeze skin and the fat from whole birds and make my own rendered chicken fat and cracklings (gribbens). Interestingly, I was searching Asian food blogs and discovered Vietnamese and Chinese cooks also render chicken fat and make chicken skin cracklings. One blogger described just draping the skin over a rack in the oven while also baking a chicken dish and catching the drippings in a pan. The racked skin becomes crisp and can be used like cracklings. I remember that one of our FReeper cooks also makes her rendered fat and cracklings in the oven.
Thanks, I’ll ask. We’ve only purchased beef there in the past, not poultry.
Pilz-E asks questions about cruelty-free chicken.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed92Lrw2Tos
I stopped buying Entemann’s and Thomas’s once I learned that they had been bought by the Mexican company Bimbo Bakery.
You made me LOL!
:)
Tyson is one of the major players in this. http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303559504579197662165181956 From the article: “Instead of buying chickens from independent farmers, as Tyson long has done world-wide, the company is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build its own farms in China.”
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