Chinese imports of meat: Did this get passed?
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"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. "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. All of this has many recommending to buy local so you know your dinner is safe and 100-percent all-American.
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Re: Chinese imports of meat: Did this get passed?
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Meds or meat from China no thanks but we are getting it.
Was born in a Big City Will die in the Country OK with that!
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Re: Chinese imports of meat: Did this get passed?
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The last bbq wings we got from Mexico had enough feathers it could fly by itself I trust China even less.
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Jerry Herbst
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Re: Chinese imports of meat: Did this get passed?
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When I read the label on processed food I want to have some assurance that the label is accurate. No thanks to food processed in China.
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Re: Chinese imports of meat: Did this get passed?
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I foresee the possibility of Chinese virologists coming up with a slow to show symptoms, extremely lethal virus, vaccinating all the Chinese people they want to save, placing the virus in thousands of tons of food shipped all over the US and rest of the world and becoming the world's only super power.
Keith I certainly share your mistrust of the Democrats ..OOPS I mean the Chinese....... and I am not a virologist by any stretch..........but I doubt a virus would survive that long and under those conditions Parvovirus, for instance can live in soil for over a year and take freezing temperatures. I am sure there are tougher viruses than Parvo. I would think a virologist could splice hardy viruses to less hardy ones to make very hardy, virulent ones. Keith
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Re: Chinese imports of meat: Did this get passed?
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my daughter has birds. lots of them. ducks geese peabirds of multiple varietys. raises and sells rabbits along with chickens. maybe i need to pay her to raise me about 50 a year. when i was a kid i did not like chicken killing day. wet feathers, guts, burning off pin feathers all stink. i like eating them but it always took several days after a chicken killing before i wanted to eat one. i still dont like those smells. can buy thigh/drumsticks in 10 pound sacks at walmart way cheaper than you can raise them yourself. i guess there is just not going to be any more cheap meat you can trust. might have to buy those ridiculously high priced deer tags ks sells. fishing license i still come out way ahead on though
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Re: Chinese imports of meat: Did this get passed?
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The only way it costs more to buy a live hog or steer is if you don;t butcher it yourself and even then it shouldn't cost more. Look in your newspapers commodity report to find out the price of fat cattle or butcher hogs.
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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Re: Chinese imports of meat: Did this get passed?
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Once the door is wide open to sending our chickens back from China after they have been processed, it will be an easy step to stop using our chickens and replace them with ones raised in China.
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Re: Chinese imports of meat: Did this get passed?
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Chicken barns and meat processors are mostly within 200 miles of ft smith ar
Those who would give up essential liberty, to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
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