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Are We Crazy? USDA To Label Chinese-Processed Chicken As ‘Made In America’
Economy In Crisis ^ | 9/17/2013 | Margaret Elkis

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!


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: chicken; chickensfromchina; chinachicken; evilobamaregime; fluvirusfromchina; foodfromchina; foodsafety; madeinusa; pointoforigin; processedchicken; usda
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To: IbJensen

I’m glad I don’t like chicken that much.
Funny I was investigating community supported agriculture just yesterday. It’s looking more attractive by the day.


21 posted on 10/22/2013 8:49:14 AM PDT by Wiser now (Socialism does not eliminate poverty, it guarantees it.)
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To: IbJensen

Let me get this straight. We are going to ship live chickens from the USA to China, then they are going to cook them and send them back here to us?


22 posted on 10/22/2013 8:50:57 AM PDT by nikos1121
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To: PowderMonkey
Nice work, if you can get it.

The term for it is Merchantilism. We've allowing our trading "partners" to do this to us for decades.

23 posted on 10/22/2013 8:58:44 AM PDT by Last Dakotan
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To: knarf

THAT is how I read it. My guess is that we ship them dead....easier to pack.


24 posted on 10/22/2013 8:58:51 AM PDT by Gator113
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To: IbJensen

Don’t worry about it. It’s not real chicken.


25 posted on 10/22/2013 9:09:56 AM PDT by Jonty30 (What Islam and secularism have in common is that they are both death cults)
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To: IbJensen

What’s next? Burgers? Only eat home-grown veggies, chicken and beef.


26 posted on 10/22/2013 9:17:49 AM PDT by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: IbJensen

Salon has a convincing scare story about chicken.

http://www.salon.com/2013/10/19/7_horrifying_truths_about_the_chicken_you_eat_partner/


27 posted on 10/22/2013 9:43:49 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Welfare is the new euphemism for Eugenics.)
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To: IbJensen

Back when Clinton was president, the Agriculture Department made a nasty bit of work on behest of Arkansas chicken giant Tyson Foods, a big supporter (read “bribery”) of elected officials in Arkansas.

The deal was this. Puerto Rico had a large, decentralized but protected chicken business, a livelihood for tens of thousands of poor Puerto Ricans. Puerto Ricans prefer dark meat, unlike most Americans that prefer white meat.

Well, Tyson Foods had tons of extra dark meat, so the Clinton regime took away Puerto Rico’s protections, so Tyson could dump it on Puerto Rico at ridiculously low prices. Which impoverished tens of thousands of people by putting them out of business.

That would have been bad enough, but then the Clinton administration removed the requirement that the Tyson chicken be freshness dated. So vast amounts of repeatedly frozen, bacteria laden, old chicken were dumped on Puerto Rico. Sold for retail even if it was slimy and green.

Almost needless to say, Salmonella and other food poisoning has become common in Puerto Rico. And yet, they still vote for Democrats.


28 posted on 10/22/2013 9:54:44 AM PDT by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Welfare is the new euphemism for Eugenics.)
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To: IbJensen; All

Because Free Trade Communism WORKS!! Just ask any Free Trade Communist

I am tired of subsidizing the Communist Chinese...and now we lie about their crap products

And this will get worse if Obama’s Free Trade deal with the EU is done. The EU will surely label Communist Chinese and Third World crap as EU Made before they send it to the US


29 posted on 10/22/2013 10:17:18 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Fact Is: GOPe want ObamaCare.)
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To: knarf

Yes...you read that right...and its just not chicken to Communist China...a lot of Agri and ranch products are shipped to and from foreign countries for processing

Tariffs would immediately stop this nonsense


30 posted on 10/22/2013 10:20:45 AM PDT by SeminoleCounty (Fact Is: GOPe want ObamaCare.)
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To: IbJensen

Another day another abomination is forced upon us.


31 posted on 10/22/2013 10:29:07 AM PDT by exPBRrat
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To: yefragetuwrabrumuy

Who, with a brain in their head (not many) would ever continue to buy the disgraced Tyson chicken meat (based on the gigs against facilities )?

Frau Klinton served on their board of directors.

That, indeed, served as a catalyst for nevermore, for the rest of my life, to never buy this contaminated product.


32 posted on 10/22/2013 10:39:33 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: nikos1121

Well, yes.

But that’s only part of the evil conjured up by our evil administration.


33 posted on 10/22/2013 10:40:55 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: PowderMonkey

Kiss your president’s ring.

(Don’t forget the ring is in his back pocket of his skinny backside.)


34 posted on 10/22/2013 10:46:26 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Chickens R Us


35 posted on 10/22/2013 10:47:14 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: knarf

Si


36 posted on 10/22/2013 10:49:50 AM PDT by IbJensen (Liberals are like Slinkies, good for nothing, but you smile as you push them down the stairs.)
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To: John S Mosby
okay...are there any meats that are safe to buy and eat here in the good Old USA....

I'm careful not to buy any juices that don't say "made from oranges grown in the USA" or similar...

I guess we'll need to start buying only from local farmers...

37 posted on 10/22/2013 11:02:50 AM PDT by cherry (.in the time of universal deceit, telling the truth is revolutionary.....)
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To: cherry

We’ll have to raise our own chickens soon I guess


38 posted on 10/22/2013 11:03:51 AM PDT by GeronL
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To: IbJensen

This chicken will probably go into prepared foods. So stop buying anything prepared. Don’t buy cans of soup, or frozen dinners. Make your own food, and learn about the chicken you buy, where it comes from, what the conditions are like there. Know your farms.


39 posted on 10/22/2013 11:08:15 AM PDT by Yaelle
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To: IbJensen

So. How do we know this isn’t an excuse to ship perfectly good chicken to china and let them ship their contaminated chickens back.

You know, as the ‘same chickens’.

And pay them for the priviledge of doing so?


40 posted on 10/22/2013 11:10:36 AM PDT by Black Agnes
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