China due to process chiken for american consumption

[BobWolf]

Anybody hear about this last week?

Schumer: Chicken processed in China and sold in the U.S. poses 'major health hazard' for Staten Islanders and other citizens | SILive.com

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[pandora2112]

No I'm going to have to read this, China can't make safe non consumable products and now they are processing food? I'm going to have to say NO NO NO!

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[Turtle]

Anybody hear about this last week?

Yeah, it's one I've been following for years. Back in 2003 when that one cow in Washington State (which came in from Canada) was diagnosed with Mad Cow Disease, China cut off all US beef imports. It's been no secret that China has wanted to export chicken to the U.S. in exchange for reopening its market for beef from the US that has been closed since 2003. For a variety of reasons, many of which appear in the articles above, the USDA (and Congress) has refused to open up the market for importing Chinese chickens. Beef producers remain mad as a cow over it, especially since China has finally discovered beef and their beef imports have skyrocketed over the last few years, with American beef producers being left on the sidelines to stew.

The compromise, to open the Chinese beef import market to US beef, is to allow chickens that were raised and slaughtered here, to then be packed up on a boat and shipped to China where they will be processed (and likely combined with chickens from other countries), and then packed up on a boat and shipped right back here. Shipping chickens back and forth like that, for whatever reason, is just re-tar-ded.

 

[Deville]

Between the Fukashimi power plant dumping thousands of tons of radioactive water into the Pacific ocean runing sea life forever, my self impossed ban of Pork & Beef all I had left was chicken & now that's being taken away from me. What's left for me to eat!?