For comparison, the US produces something like 10 billion chickens and 100 billion eggs per year.
Bird flu is a major public health problem in China.
In 2013 the current administration approved the importation or poultry products into the US.
The chicken processing industry in the US employs many recent immigrants at low wages. These are unpleasant and demanding high labor content jobs fifth generation welfare recipient citizens are unwilling to perform.
The opening of imports of Chinese birds into the US will result in US chickens being sent to China for processing and ostensibly returned to the US. Having done business in China for decades it would not surprise me if uninfected US chickens are retained for the Chinese home market and infected Chinese chickens are sent to the US.
Ultimately, the poultry industry will become another lost American industry. The economics of sending chickens from the US to China for processing and returning them to the US adds significant transportation costs. Why not raise and process chickens in China and export them directly?
Globalization and free trade has resulted in the loss of major segments of US manufacturing. Globalists, multinational corporations, and the Chinese government are now working with the US government to take over major segments of US agriculture. With this move control of the US food supply moves outside US control. Pork will be next, the Chinese acquisition of Smithfield is the first step.
Free traders rejoice!