Posted on 10/12/2015 1:29:58 PM PDT by HomerBohn
Our corrupted central socialist government is complicit in this through the FDA.
I would think that sending pork to China to be slaughtered and processed to be sent back to the US is economically stupid, but maybe they work like our government.
That said, I buy a locally butchered beef/hog every year and also shoot everything I eat.
Hard to believe that it’s more economical to ship millions of animals to China, process them, and ship the end products back than it is to simply do it all locally.
True, Smithfield Farms was sold to China, but the hogs are not being shipped back to China. See:
http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/smithfield.asp
My Republicrat congresscritter actually puts forth his cosponsorship of a bill rescinding country of origin labling... like it’s a good thing for Americans to not know where their food comes from.
This is enough for me!:
In September 2013 Smithfield Foods was acquired by China's biggest meat processor, Shuanghui International Holdings, in the largest acquisition ever of a U.S. company by a Chinese one — a deal that has raised concerns in America about a Chinese food company's controlling a major U.S. meat supplier. Read more at http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/smithfield.asp#Pgl4wT6ygl3EZVRM.99
BS email that takes a grain of truth (compay sale) and the gullible forward the nonsense on as fact.
Eat that Chinese pork and keep buying that Vietnamese tilapia.
Do you have the slightest clue of the expense of international travel of live animals?
Picking up a half hog tomorrow from a local gmo free farmer. And getting salmon from a indian gill netter here in
Michigan.
I know they don’t fly first class.
A few months ago I heard the same thing about chickens being raised in the U. S., shipped to China where they’re dressed out and shipped back here.
China imports pork from the US, not the other way around. Any pork headed to there would lose value to send it back.
https://www.pork.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/pork-checkoff-report-newsletter-july-2015.pdf
Why doesn’t anybody complain about the American companies that buy this fish and sell it to us only because it is more profitable. None of these markets sell directly to the consumer. There is always a middle man and he’s probably your next door neighbor. Where’s the patriotism when it comes to this.
It seems kind of counter-productive for the Chinese to let the slaughter facilities that they bought and paid for to sit idle, while at the same time incur extra added costs to ship the product from here to China to slaughter and then return the packaged product here.
I cannot believe that anyone falls for such a hoax!
BEST country-cured ham:
Etzler Hams
Fincastle, Botetourt County, Virginia
They don’t make any money from me-I don’t eat food that is processed or animals that are not free ranged and not fed hormones, etc-so I grow most of my veggies and buy the others from a grocery that sells produce from this state-I buy meat from a local butcher shop, and hunt when I get the opportunity.
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