US to ship chicken to China and then China to ship it back...
Would you willingly eat chicken nuggets processed in a country that has no intention of meeting U.S. food-safety standards? Most Americans likely wouldn't.
That may explain why the U.S. Department of Agriculture waited until Friday -- the day before a long holiday weekend -- to announce that it had ended a ban on Chinese chicken imports by approving four Chinese poultry processors to ship processed ("heat-treated/cooked"
chicken to the U.S. The report on the approved poultry plants noted that the audit set out to “to determine whether the People's Republic of China's (PRC) food safety system governing poultry processing remains equivalent to that of the United States (U.S.), with the ability to produce products that are safe, wholesome, unadulterated, and properly labeled." Needless to say, the Chinese plants passed.
Initially, at least, the chickens will be slaughtered in the U.S. (or another nation that's allowed to export slaughtered chicken to the U.S.), then shipped to China for processing and re-export. That’s the good news. The bad news is that, according to the New York Times, no USDA inspectors will be present in the Chinese processing plants (despite the fact that China has never before been allowed to export chicken to the U.S.), thus offering consumers no guarantees where the processed chickens were in fact slaughtered. Even worse, because the birds will be processed, the USDA will not require point-of-origin labeling (under USDA rules, foods that have been cooked aren’t subject to point-of-origin labeling). In other words: Consumers will have no way to tell if those chicken nuggets in the supermarket freezer were processed in the U.S. or in China.
That’s a big problem. For more than a decade, China has earned a reputation as one of the world’s worst food-safety offenders. In just the last year, consumers have been confronted with a bird flu outbreak, news of sales of 46-year-old chicken feet and reports of poisonous fake mutton. These are not isolated incidents, but rather the most spectacular instances of a crisis that has become so severe that some consumers now smuggle quantities of infant milk formula from foreign countries into China so as to avoid buying potentially tainted Chinese dairy products.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-09-03/don-t-trust-a-chicken-nugget-that-s-visited-china.html
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Will that be labeled Made in the USA?
What are the drivers?
The meat would most likely spoil in transport let alone whatever it will be exposed to in China.
This is what an unregulated America looks like and where the republicans want to take the country!
will be done under strict, sanitary conditions, right? Right? 
and during that time, our export department gradually shrank down to one corner of one floor, while import ended up with a whole floor to itself. Aside from empty containers, the only things we exported were waste paper and synthetic resin.
then, after years of Walmart and the Gap muscling us on prices, my department shrank too, and I got laid off 
NOT!
http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gallery/2011/sep/16/edible-insects-arachnids-in-pictures
Most especially "factory farm" chicken shipped twice across the pacific.
The globalist are just laughing at us now 
How do I get out of this chicken outfit
- I did. If you can't, you need to find a way how to.....
K&R
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