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Title: USDA Allows China to Process U.S. Chicken
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SHAPE Magazine
URL Source: http://www.shape.com/blogs/fit-food ... llows-china-process-us-chicken
Published: Sep 6, 2013
Author: Charlotte Hilton Andersen
Post Date: 2013-09-08 14:29:16 by X-15
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Comments: 24
recently gave the green-light to four chicken processing plants in China, allowing chicken raised and slaughtered in the U.S. to be exported to China for processing, and then shipped back to the U.S. and sold on grocery shelves here. The actual arrangement will take some time to set in, however. "All this means is that we've deemed China's poultry processing equivalent to the process in the United States," says Arianne Perkins, USDA public affairs specialist. Individual companies will still have to be certified, something Perkins says has not happened yet. While the logistics are hard to imagine—if we can't safely leave chicken out for the length of a family picnic, how can it be shipped halfway around the world and back with no ill effects?—the USDA is doing its best to reassure both chicken farmers and consumers that the process is 100-percent safe. "The Food Safety and Inspection Service’s number-one priority is always food safety," Perkins says. In the official memo, the FSIS says that "all outstanding issues have been resolved"—a pretty big promise considering that in the past year alone China has made news for passing off rat meat as mutton, selling sausages filled with maggots, inexplicably finding thousands of dead pigs floating in the waters of Shanghai, and even having an outbreak of the H7N9 bird flu in live poultry. “We do have a concern about safety," National Chicken Council senior vice president Bill Roenigk said in a statement. "But we’ve been assured and reassured by the USDA that they will do 100-percent testing on poultry products from China. We have confidence that the USDA will do that testing and do it in a good and adequate manner." However Perkins adds that while there will be increased testing on the chicken before re-entering the U.S., they will not be doing any on-site monitoring or testing in China, a fact that Rep. Rosa De Lauro (D-Conn.) said in a statement is "deeply worrisome" for American consumers. Even worse, a report just this month from the United States Government Accountability Office found that the USDA's domestic poultry inspections have a lot of problems anyhow, as they are in the process of replacing certified-USDA inspectors with those provided by the poultry companies themselves. In addition to the concerns that this decision could open the door for even more unsafe practices, no country-of-origin labels are required under the new rules, so consumers won't know where their bird is coming from. Plus industry insiders warn that the move is politically motivated by a desire to get China to re-allow lucrative U.S. beef imports and will likely lead to allowing imports of Chinese chickens, a practice that's been banned since bird flu and other food safety concerns first surfaced.
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#1. To: X-15 (#0)
Who in hell dreams up this shit? We can't eat stuff from the Pacific or the Gulf, and now we can't even eat our own chicken? Please God, let all those nukes end up in deecee; we need a massive re-boot here. “The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
If anybody had any concerns about Walmart "mystery meat", well, that mystery was just partially solved.
#2. To: Lod (#1)
"...no country-of-origin labels are required under the new rules, so consumers won't know where their bird is coming from..."
-Alex Kurtagic
#3. To: X-15 (#2)
Perhaps Certified Organic venison from the Fannin would have some commercial appeal?
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#4. To: Lod (#3)
Gubbermint would take me out with a drone for even thinking about feeding people The Best Meat On The Planet, I'd be a threat to 'national security' or some such nonsense.
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: X-15 (#4)
www.breederdeer.com/ - pretty big (and growing) business in rural ameriKa. i was thinking about becoming breeders -
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#6. To: X-15 (#0)
And so another industry, Poultry Processing, moves out of the USA to China. While this industry is not regarded as high paying, it does pay better than minimum wages and, since the debasing of manufacturing, has been providing fairly decent jobs for many, primarily rural, Americans. If you are not in a position to feed your own, I'm afraid, your goose may soon be cooked. "All this means is that we've deemed China's poultry processing equivalent to the process in the United States," says Arianne Perkins, USDA public affairs specialist.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
#7. To: Southern Style, X-15, 4 (#6)
why you don't want to eat chink chicky -
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#8. To: X-15 (#0)
Is this the same US Government that charges me 51 cents to ship a paper envelope halfway across town, all the while monopolizing such transactions? I call shenanigans!
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#9. To: Lod, X-15 (#3)
Perhaps Dear Leader has a preference for eggs Dongyang style. Perhaps Certified Organic venison from the Fannin would have some commercial appeal?
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#10. To: Dakmar (#9)
I don't even want to know what you may have been searching for when you came across that link. eggs Dongyang style.
"When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." - Frederic Bastiat
#11. To: Southern Style (#10)
Egg foo yung, actually. It was one of those things that was impossible to forget.
corruptissima re publica plurimae leges - Tacitus
#12. To: X-15 (#0)
I buy no food for my or my dog if it's from China. They are our enemies and want us to die.
"Have Brain, Will Travel
#13. To: Turtle (#12)
Pug is a delicacy in parts of China. I buy no food for my or my dog if it's from China.
#14. To: X-15 (#0)
Gee! Three years ago the Chinese were poisoning our pets and sending out toys with toxic chemicals .... but now they're going to process our KFC! And why couldn't this be done by Americans in the US?? Shipping the chickens TO China and then back FROM China guarantees that they won't be fresh, at the very best. I had thought that, of all the jobs that were being outsourced, at least food preparation was safe in the US.
#15. To: Dakmar (#9)
Have Mercy - who would ever dream of such? Unforgettable, all right.
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#16. To: Buzzard (#13)
I could quite easily kill a chink eating a pug. Pug is a delicacy in parts of China.
"Have Brain, Will Travel
#17. To: Shoonra (#14) (Edited)
You lefties ran all the corps out of the country with your 35% tax rate (highest in the world). All you can do now is unionize all the McDonald's and KFC jobs. That will only last for a few years though. After that, they'll be cooking and freezing your fast food in China too. Then all the Mexicans will have to know is how to thaw it in the micro for you. "I had thought that, of all the jobs that were being outsourced, at least food preparation was safe in the US."
#18. To: X-15 (#0)
ThinkStock "Chinese chicken" will soon have a whole new meaning, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently gave the green-light to four chicken processing plants in China, allowing chicken raised and slaughtered in the U.S. to be exported to China for processing, and then shipped back to the U.S. and sold on grocery shelves here. The actual arrangement will take some time to set in, however. "All this means is that we've deemed China's poultry processing equivalent to the process in the United States," says Arianne Perkins, USDA public affairs specialist. Individual companies will still have to be certified, something Perkins says has not happened yet. While the logistics are hard to imagine—if we can't safely leave chicken out for the length of a family picnic, how can it be shipped halfway around the world and back with no ill effects?—the USDA is doing its best to reassure both chicken farmers and consumers that the process is 100-percent safe. This has got to be the dumbest thing to come down the pike in a coon's age or longer. ;)
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#19. To: Lod (#3)
I can recall back when I worked for the State of Illinois. I was out on night patrol. I was making a left turn on the West end of the area. There was a big doe on the side of the road. There was a golf course with a chain link fence around it. The strobe lights spooked the deer and she ran right in front of me. I hit her with the snowplow. By the time I got turned around and back there, she had her last gasp. I called the foreman over there and he said, "Are you sure she's dead, Tex? I don't want to get kicked." I said, "Yeah, her eyes are open. They always die with their eyes open." So, we threw her up on the tailgate of the pick up and drove over to the gravel pit. I pulled her off in a clean bank of snow and cut off the hind quarters. I ran the rest of the night with the heater off and took them home and aged them in the refrigerator for three days. I gave one to the neighbor and he cooked my up a plate of stew. The other I took in to the yard. We had a guy there that used to be a butcher. He said it was perfect. We cut it up and fried it up on the stove. That was some good eating. Yum, yum. ;) Perhaps Certified Organic venison from the Fannin would have some commercial appeal?
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#20. To: Southern Style, Dakmar (#10)
ROTFLMAO! I don't even want to know what you may have been searching for when you came across that link.
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
#21. To: BTP Holdings (#19)
Damn. You left the tenderloin? Ack!
“The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.” ~ H. L. Mencken
#22. To: X-15 (#0)
I stopped purchasing and eating beef mixed from multiple countries, so now we will do the same with chicken. Basically, it is the big conglomerates who will be selling this shit....Tyson and such. People need to simple stop buying it. Buy local if possible. four chicken processing plants in China
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11
"Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
#23. To: abraxas (#22)
Right On! Buy local, and buy organic. Grow your own if you can. Buy local if possible.
"“Believe nothing merely because you have been told it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be kind, conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings - that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.” ~ Gautama Siddhartha — The Buddha
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from evil. ~ Unk (Paraphrase of Clarke's 3rd Law: "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.")
#24. To: Lod (#21)
No time to get it. ;) You left the tenderloin?
"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one." Edmund Burke
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