Posted on 05/09/2007 8:05:57 PM PDT by anonsquared
WASHINGTON: In China, some farmers try to maximize the output from their small plots by flooding produce with unapproved pesticides, pumping livestock with antibiotics banned in other countries and using human feces as fertilizer to increase soil productivity.
But the questionable practices do not end there: Chicken pens are frequently suspended over ponds where seafood is raised, recycling chicken waste as a food source for seafood, according to a leading food safety expert who served as adviser to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
Suspect Chinese agricultural practices could soon affect consumers in the United States. Government authorities are working on a proposal to allow chickens raised, slaughtered, and cooked in China to be sold in the United States, and under current regulations, store labels do not have to indicate the origin of the poultry.
According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, China's top agricultural export goal is opening the U.S. market to its cooked chickens.
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What do I win?
That is just naaaasssstttttyyyy.
I would never knowingly have anything to do with food of any sort coming from China at this point.
The FDA always fights label of origin. Today in the store I saw produce labeled: Grown in USA, Canada, or Mexico. What next, Grown in the Western Hemisphere?
Pretty soon we will have nothing left to export due to outsourcing and we will be totally dependent on CHINA. Is that not a scary thought?
Follow the money.
I've traveled the Chinese countryside.I've seen the filth.I've seen the filth in Chinese rice paddies.I'll starve before I eat anything born/grown/made in China.
The labels don’t say if an “ingredient” came from China.
more from the article...
In China’s agricultural system, many farmers toil on one-acre plots, while U.S. farmers often work thousands of acres, said Michael Doyle, director of the Center for Food Safety at the University of Georgia and former chairman of the FDA’s science advisory board.
In China, “there are hundreds of thousands of these little farms,” Doyle said. “They have small ponds. And over the ponds - in not all cases, but in many cases - they’ll have chicken cages. It might be like 20,000 chickens in cages. The chicken feces is what feeds the shrimp.”
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has found that up to 10 percent of shrimp imported from China contains salmonella, he said. Even more worrisome are shrimp imported from China that contain antibiotics that no amount of cooking can neutralize.
Last month alone, the FDA rejected 51 shipments of catfish, eel, shrimp, and tilapia imported from China because of contaminants like salmonella, veterinary drugs, and nitrofuran, a cancer-causing chemical. A long history of such test results spurred the FDA to begin working proactively with Chinese farmers on safer seafood production methods, Doyle said. Even in poultry produced in the United States, there is contamination with salmonella, he said.
>>>Pretty soon we will have nothing left to export
How about our politicians and lawyers.
Then, close the borders.
I am going to be sick.
thnx for the ping, now , am I the pinger or the pingee, this just has to be the pingest in all my years of FReeping.
But it is one of the most important.
Who care who is president if we are all dead from the food anyway.
yikes.
My wife does the shopping. She's right there with you.
Or if something the animal ate came from China. We have laws about what you can feed to animals - how can we possibly import animal feed from China?
MRs VS
http://www.petalumapoultry.com/
http://www.organic-mlt.com/_MLT2003/MLT2002/petaluma-all.htm
http://www.coastalrangeorganics.com/
I know the answer (raising hand) It’s a Happy Mother’s Day present - yea that’s it. What makes a mom more happy than preparing a lovely meal of toxic chicken for her beloved family.
Your comment says it all.
On Cspan2 now. David Scott from GA asked good questions (democrat) Of course FDA is blaming all this on consumer demand, but they won’t tell us when there are chinese products as ingredients in our food.
Uh not a good idea.
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