Posted on 10/22/2013 8:05:42 AM PDT by IbJensen
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced that four Chinese poultry processors have permission to begin shipping meat to the U.S.
The nightmare for U.S. consumers? The Chinese-processed chicken will be labeled as ‘made in America!’
Even though the Chinese poultry processors are only allowed to ship cooked meat from U.S.-raised chickens, many in the United States are alarmed that our leaders would allow such a deal to go down in the first place. After all, China is notorious for its food safety problems.
Concerns among the public are warranted when you consider that the CDC estimates 325,000 Americans are hospitalized every year from food poisoning, with 5,000 resultant deaths. On top of that — according to United States Census data – food imports doubled in this country from 1997 to 2008. Over 60 percent of imported food comes from developing nations, such as China.
Of the massive amount of imported food coming to America, the FDA only has the resources to inspect less than 2 percent. This is a major problem because many nations have less food safety regulations than the United States.
But even for the imported chicken from China being inspected, Chinese processors won’t be required by the USDA to follow point-of-origin labeling laws because the chicken will already be cooked. This is another huge concern for consumers, as there will be no proof where their chicken came from. It will even lead to other problems such as food counterfeiting — something that so far has largely been restricted to fish markets.
Not having proper labels also makes it impossible for American consumers to tell if the chicken they want to buy was processed in the U.S. or China, placing a huge burden on families who wish to stay away from foreign foods.
Then, to add fuel to the fire, the USDA does not even plan to require its own regulators to supervise the Chinese processors on the premises! This means there will be little to no control over how the cooked chicken is processed in China. It’s a drastic threat to the health of US consumers and something that must be stopped. China is already notorious for food safety issues. How much longer are we going to continue to hand over control of various US industries to China?
Contact your congressional representative and urge them to stand against this latest agreement between the USDA and China. Send this to five of your friends and have them do the same!
This says it all!
So that’s how they plan to take over!
These are the people we are massively indebted to. They call the shots.
This is Bullshit!! It’s all about $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ on both ends. Period!
Enemies foreign and domestic
Cats In The Kettle
- Weird Al Yankovic
Did you ever think when you eat Chinese,
It ain’t pork or chicken, but a fat siamese,
Yet the food tastes great, so ya don’t complain,
but that’s not chicken in your chicken chow mein.
Seems to me I ordered sweet and sour pork,
But Garfield’s on my fork,
He’s purrin here on my fork...
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon,
The place that I eat everyday at noon,
They can feed you cat and you’ll never know,
Once they wrap it up in dough, boys,
They fry it real crisp in dough.
Chou Lin asked if I wanted more,
As he was dialin up his buddy at the old pet store,
I said not today,
I lost my apettite,
There’s two cats in my belly and they want to fight,
I was suckin on a Rolaid and a Tums or two,
When I swear I heard it mew, boy,
And that is when I knew...
There’s a cat in the kettle at the Peking Moon,
I think I gotta stop eating there at noon,
They say that it’s beef or fish or pork,
But it’s purrin there on my fork,
There’s a hairball on my fork.
I just had a scary thought!
We may stick to Pilgrim’s Pride and Purdue chicken producers, but what the Chinese restaurants in America? I can equate this to the fish that comes from Viet Nam, raised in the Mekong Delta amongst all the poop that drops through the holes in the floors of the stilted hovels.
Smithfield Farms, in NC has been taken over by chinee. Major pork processor, and chicken and a lot else. This is NOT good.
Incredible that anyone would allow the chinee offshore to ship this crap (emphasis as result of eating) and potential for biologic nightmare.
the chinee are buying our foreclosed property too you know?
Proxy buyers for cash.
Does this say ...
"Even though the Chinese poultry processors are only allowed to ship cooked meat from U.S.-raised chickens, many in the United States are alarmed that our leaders would allow such a deal to go down in the first place. After all, China is notorious for its food safety problems "
We grow chickens
send them to China
they process them
they ship 'em BACK to us
and we buy them as American chickens
???
Is THAT what I read ?
Any info on which companies or branding this will be done under, if permitted?
I’ve already found frozen vegetables from China, the wife didn’t look when she bought them, I guess she thought like many, USA.
I happened to look and promptly threw them out...but they were identified with country of origin and I will not buy them.
This however, means we will not know unless we find out which branding this is under. If I can’t find out, I will contact the companies which purportedly process the chicken we normally buy and ask. If no satisfactory answer is forthcoming, then chicken will not be bought from any store anymore.
I will go to local farmers, which, as I sit here and type it, is a damn good thought.
Chick-a-dee China
The Chinese Chicken
You have a drumstick
And your brain stops tickin’
China controlling our pork & chicken production, petri-dish beef....
You’re going to have to raise your own animals.
Audit gives China green light to process U.S. chicken
Was Your Chicken Nugget Made In China? It'll Soon Be Hard To Know/
'The USDA's decision comes with a backdrop of long-running trade disputes over meat between the U.S. and China. In a nutshell: China banned U.S. beef exports in 2003 after a case of mad cow disease turned up in a Washington state cow. Then, when the bird flu virus broke out widely among Asian bird flocks in 2004, the U.S. blocked imports of Chinese poultry. China challenged that decision in front of the World Trade Organization, which ruled in China's favor in 2010.'
Chickity China the Chinese chicken
You have a drumstick and your brain stops tickin’
... Barenaked Ladies
Yep, restaurant food and canned soup, etc....
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