I believe it.
WARNING: Your Chicken Could Be “Made In China”
Hold the phone. Stop the presses. Whatever you do, make sure you put down that piece of chicken. The chicken you were eating and thought it came from a farm in U.S. straight to your table, maybe only half of the truth. It may have taken a little detour.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture recently gave the green-light to four chicken processing plants in China, allowing chicken raised and slaughtered in the U.S. to be exported to China for processing, and then shipped back to the U.S. and sold on grocery shelves here. Furthermore, the imported processed poultry will not require a country-of-origin label nor will U.S. inspectors be on site at processing plants in China before it is shipped to the United States for human consumption.
Food safety experts worry about the quality of chicken processed in a country notorious for avian influenza and food-borne illnesses. And they predict that China will eventually seek to broaden the export rules to allow chickens born and raised in China.
What’s the reason for this shipping back and forth? It’s like most things: M-O-N-E-Y.
https://blackdoctor.org/usda-chicken-processed-in-china/
I realize this happened quite awhile ago. And labor is cheaper and regulations lighter in China. But there is the cost of shipping back and forth, even more now. The processors here hire illegals and have problems too.
How much of this chicken is processed in China into frozen, breaded products or chopped up in frozen dinners? People interested in good nutrition would probably be a lot better off buying raw chicken and cooking it at home. I do not want to eat any food from China.