Posted on 10/12/2015 1:29:58 PM PDT by HomerBohn
Think about this when you're at your grocery store.
Smithfield Farms, the largest pork producing farm in the USA was sold in September to China with the unanimous support of its stockholders!! The hogs will still be raised here, but slaughtered and packaged for sale in China before being sent back here. This includes labels of
Morrell
Eckrich
Krakus
Cudahy
Premium Hams
Cook's
Gwaltney
The same with many chickens. They can now be shipped there, but when they come back all that needs to be labeled is that they WERE RAISED IN THE USA. Not that they were processed in China !!!
Our great FDA at work again. The chickens will be all processed and most sold to fast food restaurants for sandwiches, along with schools and supermarkets. The China slaughter and processing are not nearly equal to the requirements here.
*BAD FOOD*
We recently learned that Starkist Tuna is now owned by Korea, and is in big conflict with the U.S.concerning quality, safety, and records, which Korea refuses to produce.
Read several articles on Google about this, and even one that was defending the eating of tilapia said to avoid the fish that came from China?
Also, I had just returned home from buying Albertson's 4-day special of 4 bags of frozen tilapia for the price of one? Sure enough, on the top of the bags, it read "farm raised", and on the bottom in small print it said, "China".
Read all the way to the end...
Recently a Food inspector on TV...said he had lived overseas and he had seen the filthy conditions their foods are raised and processed in. It is enough to make you throw up. Some foreign workers have to wear masks as they work in these places, because the food is so rotten and filthy, it makes them want to throw up. Many of their fish on Fish Farms are fed raw sewage daily. He said he has seen so much filth throughout their food growing and processing that he would "never" eat any of it. They raise this filth, put some food coloring and some flavorings on it, then they ship it to the USA & Canada for YOU to consume and feed to YOUR families. They have no Food & Safety Inspectors. They ship it to you to buy and poison your families and friends.
Imported food we eat and the junk we buy:
Green Giant frozen vegetables are from China,
and so are most of Europe's Best.
Arctic Gardens are OK and soo is Birdseye.
*Never buy the grocery store garlic unless it is clearly marked from USA or Canada*, the other stuff is grown in people poop (even worse than chicken poop). China is the largest producer of garlic in the world; U.S. is next.
Buy only local honey, much honey is shipped in huge containers from China and re-packed here.
Cold-FX is grown and packed in China and is full of fecal bacteria. Doesn't work anyway, big scam. If the country of origin is not clearly marked, beware. If produce, ask an employee.
Watch out for packages which state "prepared for", "packed by" or "imported by". We don't understand the lack of mandatory labeling, especially the produce.
The country of origin should be clearly shown on the item in the store.
Go to the local farmers' markets in season and keep a wary eye open the rest of the year.
Please read this very carefully, and read to the very bottom. It's important for all of us.
How is it possible to ship food from China cheaper than having it produced in the U. S. or Canada?
FOR EXAMPLE THE "OUR FAMILY" BRAND OF MANDARIN ORANGES SAYS RIGHT ON THE CAN 'FROM CHINA '. - SO, for a FEW MORE CENTS, BUY THE *LIBERTY* BRAND.
*GOLD BRAND or DOLE is from CALIFORNIA*.
Beware, Costco sells canned peaches and pears in a plastic jar that come from China ..
ALL "HIGH LINER" AND MOST OTHER FROZEN FISH PRODUCTS COME FROM CHINA OR INDONESIA. THE PACKAGE MAY SAY "PACIFIC SALMON" ON THE FRONT, BUT LOOK FOR THE SMALL PRINT. MOST OF THESE PRODUCTS COME FROM FISH FARMS IN THE ORIENT WHERE THERE ARE NO REGULATIONS ON WHAT IS FED TO THESE FISH.
Recently The Montreal Gazette had an article by the Canadian Government on how Chinese feed the fish: They suspend chicken wire crates over the fish ponds, and the fish feed on chicken s..t.
If you search the internet about what the Chinese feed their fish, you'll be alarmed; eg: growth hormones, expired anti- biotic from humans? Never buy any type of fish or shellfish that comes from these countrie s
Vietnam
China
Philippines
Checked this out personally.
Steinfeld's Pickles are made in India - just as bad!
Another example is in canned mushrooms. No-Name brand came from Indonesia.
Also check those little fruit cups. They used to be made in Canada in the Niagara region until about 2 years ago. They are now packaged in China. Most sold in Aldi stores.
While the Chinese export inferior and even toxic products, dangerous toys, and goods to be sold in North American markets, the media wrings its hands! Yet, 70% of North Americans believe that the trading privileges afforded to the Chinese should be suspended.
Well, duh ! Why do you need the government to suspend trading privileges?
SIMPLY DO IT YOURSELF, CANADA and the U.S.
Simply look on the bottom of every product you buy, and if it says 'Made in China' or 'PRC' (and that now includes Hong Kong ), simply choose another product, or none at all. You will be amazed at how dependent you are on Chinese products, and you will be equally amazed at what you can do without.
THINK ABOUT THIS
If 200 million North Americans refuse to buy just $20 each of Chinese goods, that's a billion dollar trade imbalance resolved in our favor ... fast! The downside? Some Canadian/American businesses will feel a temporary pinch from having foreign stockpiles of inventory.
Just one month of trading losses will hit the Chinese for 8% of their North American exports. Then they will at least have to ask themselves if the benefits of their arrogance and lawlessness are worth it.
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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