Posted on 03/16/2022 2:24:40 PM PDT by blam
U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CPB) officials are seizing record amounts of illegal meat products from China at the Los Angeles and Long Beach ports.
Between October and December 2021, agents seized more than 262,000 pounds of prohibited pork, chicken, beef, and duck products. This was a 33 percent increase from the year before, officials reported March 14.
Illegal meat imports from China reached a peak in 2021, when agents at the twin Southern California ports uncovered nearly 787,000 pounds, representing an 80 percent increase from the year before.
“Preventing the introduction of foreign contagious animal diseases and noxious pests at our nation’s largest seaport is paramount and vital to our agriculture industry and the well-being of the communities we serve,” Carlos Martel, CBP director of field operations in Los Angeles, said in a statement.
When illegally shipped meat is intercepted, Customs and Border Patrol either destroys it or sends it back to China, according to the agency.
Agents at the ports found most of the illegal animal products stored with boxes of e-commerce shipments and household goods in what they say was a clear attempt to smuggle the meat.
“CBP plays a major role in protecting American consumers and the agriculture industry from pests and diseases,” said Donald Kusser, CBP port director of the Los Angeles/Long Beach Seaport.
According to the USDA, China is known to have cases of African Swine Fever, Classical Swine Fever, Foot and Mouth Disease, bird flu, and other virulent diseases.
African Swine Fever can be deadly for swine but has proved harmless to humans. The disease has never been detected in the U.S. and is not a food safety issue, according to the USDA.
Also from October to December of last year, more than 1,900 pounds of prohibited pork, poultry, and other meat products from China were seized from New York City-area retailers and destroyed by agents of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
The meat found in New York did not have the required import permits and health certificates, reported the agency.
Nationwide, U.S. pork production has an estimated $13.4 billion in gross output, and exports total over 2.2 million metric tons each year, according to the National Pork Producers Council.
Come get your covid injected soylet green
I agree with your thoughts there.
Once they take major organs, it’s a shame to let all that
good meat go to waste.
grin
Seizing Meat sounds like a job for Mare Pete.
He's sweet and discreet when he seizes the meat.
You can make a Tweet from your seat when he gives a treat.
Grow your own garlic.
It’s very easy to grow and virtually pest free.
But the deep state wants us to believe that Russia is our enemy - NOT china!
So they’re exporting our good meat and importing their bad?!?
This is what we should call illegal immigrants.
Might catch more of them that way.
Plus, the commies don’t like the illegal immigrant term.
Is this headed for Smithfield?
Illegal Meat is a good name for a metal band
What else are Chinese buffets gonna serve once the city runs out of cats?
Don't know. Smithfield may be the ones exporting the pork mentioned.
The downside is that they are rather labor intensive and require a lot of stoop labor to plant and harvest.
We raise the animals, especially pigs and export the carcasses. The Chinese process the meat and return it to us ... filled with who knows what. It is hard to believe that it is cheaper for the meat to go from the USA to China and back again than it is to process it here but it must be so.
Don’t ask me about the dog dumplings in Shanghai.
Bat meat’s tough.
And it gives you Covid.
So says Dr. Fauci…
To avoid detection, they hid the meat in shipments of fentanyl
And that’s a shame because California garlic is the best. I used to work for a large produce company and most chefs wouldn’t touch Chinese garlic. It’s worth a few cents more to get the good stuff.
I need to start doing that. Some of the ones from the store have the creepy crawlies in them.
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