USDA Says Okay to Ship U.S. Chickens to China For Cheap Processing Then Back Home For You to Eat!

Attention. This is very important article that needs to be shared. Apparently, Food Safety News has revealed that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will soon allow U.S. chickens to be shipped all the way to China.

Why? – They will be sent there for processing before being shipped back to the states for human consumption! This may seems unbelievable to you, however it makes perfect economic sense. And, nowadays, all is about making profits. This shouldn’t surprise you, because it’s already being done with seafood – purely in order to save money.

Did you even know this?

According to the Seattle Times, domestically caught Pacific salmon and Dungeness crab are currently being shipped to underpaid Chinese workers for filleting and de-shelling and then shipped back to the USA.

The arrangement is particularly worrying because this work is essentially being “sold to the lowest bidder” – putting consumers at potential risk. And we know what kind of circumstances can provide the lowest Chinese bidder.

Chinese industry does not have the same regulations that there are elsewhere and their food sector has a notorious food safety record.

There will be no on-site USDA inspectors in those plants. In addition, American consumers will never know whether their foods contain this chicken because Chinese-processed chicken does not have to bear “Country Of Origin Labeling”.

Everyone deserves to know the truth about the food they consume every single day. At the end, we are paying for it. We just want to be worth for the made. It’s our legal right to know where it comes from, how it was processed, what it is made of.

You must be aware that this is more than just an issue with chickens, because it’s not just food: it’s also vitamins, pharmaceuticals, and medical devices.

This all highlights the potential problems with a globalized, industrialized food supply that is largely unregulated. There is a huge issue here that goes even as far as food adulteration and even outright fraudulent food. There needs to be much more in the way of safety inspection and food testing.

We need the best quality labs available to start testing food of all kinds, analyzing its ingredients and ascertaining its safety. If those in the industry know they cannot get away with poor standards or they will lose their license to operate (and more) – things will surely change.

We live in the greatest country in the world, so we must act like that. Surely, we’re not supposed to consume substandard, processed Chinese meat.

What do you think?

Source: Nutrition Guru