USDA to Allow China to Process Chickens, Ship Back to USA.

[warhorse78]

http://shine.yahoo.com/healthy-living/usda-allow-china-process-chickens-ship-back-u-214500281.html

*sigh*, maybe it's just me, but I just cannot understand why this would be ok for anyone. We grow the chickens here, kill them, then send them all the way to China to be processed, and then shipped back here to be sold. Really?

 

[TheBat812]

Luckily:

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.

 

[Schlosser85]

We are officially pathetically helpless.

Love calling ourselves badass while being a dependent five year old tantrum throwing child with a stick.

 

[Teelie]

Like this has ever ended well for us.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Either the USDA is run by idiots, or someone is on the take.

 

[The Squirrel]

We are run by idiots.

 

[Spider-Man Luvr28]

 

[enterthemadness]

We are officially pathetically helpless.

Love calling ourselves badass while being a dependent five year old tantrum throwing child with a stick.

China owns us. They got our jobs and debt. Now this.

 

[Teelie]

They don't own us or that much debt and if they were crazy enough to try collecting on that debt they would do more harm to themselves than us. Globalization has its drawbacks and benefits.

I'm more concerned about their complete lack of quality control or health standards in many of the businesses run there. To be fair not all of them are underhanded but there are plenty who have no trouble skirting the laws to make a quick buck and now American businesses are going to export chicken processing to make an even quicker buck.

 

[Schlosser85]

This is just unbelievably pathetic. It's pitiful.

 

[Schlosser85]

The people who are so blatantly doing their damndest to ship every job they possibly can out of America (to China, of all places) are committing treason, IMO.

 

[Schlosser85]

We have now achieved the level where we cannot do anything, including process our own food, without China holding our morbidly obese, greasy, unwashed, Dorito-stained hand.

What's next? Shipping our microwave dinners to China to be heated up for us? Having Chinese workers put toothpaste on our toothbrushes for us?

Pretty soon we're gonna be like the people in Wall-E who just get driven around on hoverchairs all day with TVs in front of our face, completely helpless and oblivious to everything.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Damn, Schloss, I don't think I've ever seen you this upset.

It may be time to pass some laws to stop this gross outsourcing though.

 

[Schlosser85]

It may be time to pass some laws to stop this gross outsourcing though.

It was time for that a long time ago. It's so blatant. And it's reaching just absurd levels. Kill a chicken. Ship it to China for processing. Have it shipped back.

That's seriously like a plotline out of a spoof.

 

[TheDreamMaster]

Guess I'm going to quit eating chicken too.

 

[Schlosser85]

A "Contagion" scenario is not impossible. China has notoriously little food inspection.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Well, at least it isn't milk.

 

[Teelie]

Or pet food... or pork... ducks... fish... vegetables... oh wait.

 

[Thundercrack85]

Is it weird that I am more concerned about pet food made in China than... food made in China?

I just realized I have no idea where my own food really comes from.

 

[Schlosser85]

Probably five-year-olds in Thailand who look like extras from Mad Max.

 

[warhorse78]

Damn, Schloss, I don't think I've ever seen you this upset.

It may be time to pass some laws to stop this gross outsourcing though.

Sad thing is, I have read the Chinese people who own their own companies are having a hard time selling their products over here, so they are actually migrating their companies over here, hiring Americans, and supposedly paying good wages to boot, so they can have the luxury of slapping a "Made in America" sticker on it. At the same time, I read somewhere that in many of the major cities in China, they have a clause that if it's a product not made in China, it can't be sold there. This is just crap I read, so I don't know how true it is or not.

And I'm sorry Schloss for posting this, I didn't realize this would get people so upset, but then again, I want you all to get upset. When I read about this last week, I actually started making plans with my neighboring farmers to start buying their chickens and vegetables from them for now on. I'm even thinking of starting my own flock, if just for the eggs.

 

[Burgundy LaRue]

Will the chicken be marked as having been handled in China? Nothing against that country, but their lax food laws would give me pause. If the chicken is marked similar to how Vietnamese catfish is labeled, it gives consumers options.

Considering how much HFCS we consume in this country, however, I'm not sure if Chinese chicken is the ultimate deal breaker.

 

[warhorse78]

The people who are so blatantly doing their damndest to ship every job they possibly can out of America (to China, of all places) are committing treason, IMO.

Also, not to add fuel to the fire, but if they can't ship the job overseas, I've noticed several Walmarts, Home Depots and Lowes relying heavily on the self check out lanes. Kind of reminds me when pulling up at the gas stations, there was a guy that would pump your gas, clean your windows and give the kids a treat, and self pump was hardly ever used, and then that tradition slowly faded out of existence. How long before cashiers are faded out of existence?

 

[Thundercrack85]

But is the Vietnamese catfish taken out of American lakes, shipped to Vietnam processed, and then shipped back?

 

[warhorse78]

Will the chicken be marked as having been handled in China? Nothing against that country, but their lax food laws would give me pause. If the chicken is marked similar to how Vietnamese catfish is labeled, it gives consumers options.

Considering how much HFCS we consume in this country, however, I'm not sure if Chinese chicken is the ultimate deal breaker.

Actually, it won't.

Unlike other meat imported to the U.S., the poultry shipped by Chinese processors will not require point-of-origin labeling. Under USDA rules, the labeling does not apply to foods that have been cooked.

"Consumers will have no way to tell if those chicken nuggets in the supermarket freezer were processed in the U.S. or in China," writes Bloomberg correspondent Adam Minter. Moreover, the USDA will not require its own regulators to supervise the processors on premises.

Source
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/04/chinese-poultry-processor_n_3866877.html