Chicken nuggets to be processed in China

[Uppsala9496]

Chicken nuggets are now going to be processed in China.
American chickens will be sent to China to be processed and then sent back to the US for consumption and you will never know since there is no USDA requirement to state what happened.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/dont-trust-chicken-nugget-thats-160339774.html

Sad that it is cheaper to send food across the pacific twice than it is to process here in the states.

...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.

 

[Vdubchaos]

Meanwhile, Government is forcing auto makers to some BS MPG standards while 9 Cargo ships create more pollution than all the worlds cars.

And people actually buy the whole "green" movement crap.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

"Running a little low on chicken here."

"Dump another bucket of goo in there just add more food color to this batch."

 

[techs]

Due to the crackdown by Obama on illegal aliens employed in food processing the companies are looking for other cheap labor.

 

[drbrock]

Another Government mess up. Nothing to see here. It amazes me that it is cheaper for them to send it to China and back and still be cheaper than here in the US. I guess regulations here cost a small fortune.

Maybe we will see "Made in USA" on future chicken packaging lol

 

[darkewaffle]

It's chicken nuggets, there's no chicken in them and they're disgusting anyway. What's liable to change exactly?

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

Another Government mess up. Nothing to see here. It amazes me that it is cheaper for them to send it to China and back and still be cheaper than here in the US. I guess regulations here cost a small fortune.

Maybe we will see "Made in USA" on future chicken packaging lol

I'm sure it isn't cheaper assuming they use the same product. Big difference is in China they'll use "filler" from who knows where to keep profits in line. Who's gonna stop them as long as 300lb Bertha still gets her $1 chicken nuggets and they resemble meat.

 

[fleshconsumed]

Doesn't affect me directly since I do not eat at MCD, but it is still mind boggling... And very very sad both for food safety concerns and jobs lost. Who would have thought that this is more economical than process chicken in the US? WTF?

 

[Vdubchaos]

It's chicken nuggets, there's no chicken in them and they're disgusting anyway. What's liable to change exactly?

Good point hehe

 

[Brainonska511]

Meanwhile, Government is forcing auto makers to some BS MPG standards while 9 Cargo ships create more pollution than all the worlds cars.

And people actually buy the whole "green" movement crap.

Your argument is pretty terrible. Just because X is worse, doesn't mean we can't take action to improve Y.

 

[Rakehellion]

Prepare for Melamine McNuggets!

 

[Oyeve]

The added benefit from this will be that they can incorporate these into the happy meals as glow in the dark space rocks.

 

[Brainonska511]

The added benefit from this will be that they can incorporate these into the happy meals as glow in the dark space rocks.

Or advertise them: "Now fortified with heavy metals."

 

[techs]

7 instead of 6 for the same price and I predict no one will care.

 

[JulesMaximus]

Doesn't affect me directly since I do not eat at MCD, but it is still mind boggling... And very very sad both for food safety concerns and jobs lost. Who would have thought that this is more economical than process chicken in the US? WTF?

Trouble is that more companies will start doing this to keep costs as low as possible and before you know it half our food will come from China. But hey! It's good for corporate profits and Wall Street yo! And that's what really matters right?

 

[techs]

Trouble is that more companies will start doing this to keep costs as low as possible and before you know it half our food will come from China.

I don't know the percent but a lot of it does come from China.

 

[Jeff7]

For the good of the general public, I'm sure.



Can we toss some of these people from the USDA into the mix as well? Along with their industry cronies, of course.

Trouble is that more companies will start doing this to keep costs as low as possible and before you know it half our food will come from China. But hey! It's good for corporate profits and Wall Street yo! And that's what really matters right?

Pump up your quarterly profits, then bail out with a multi-million-dollar severance package for a job well/poorly done.

I don't know the percent but a lot of it does come from China.

It's fun how you need to have "Made in <>" labeling on consumer goods, but food is more a matter of, "Sourced from places you don't need to know about."

Or sometimes they'll be so helpful: "Contain ingredients sourced from USA, Brazil, China, or Canada."
Wonderful, thank you. That was very helpful.



From the NY Times article:

Under the new rules, the Chinese facilities will verify that cooked products exported to the United States came from American or Canadian birds. So no U.S.D.A. inspector will be present in the plants.

Ah, self-regulation. Because that always works so well.



And because the poultry will be processed, it will not require country-of-origin labeling. Nor will consumers eating chicken noodle soup from a can or chicken nuggets in a fast-food restaurant know if the chicken came from Chinese processing plants.[/quote]Food laundering, effectively.

&#8220;We certainly don&#8217;t look forward to any more imports, but we also realize free trade is a two-way street,&#8221; said Tom Super, spokesman for the National Chicken Council, which represents big chicken processors in the United States. &#8220;We&#8217;re hoping the Chinese will look a little more favorably on our chicken products and on other U.S. agricultural imports.&#8221;

First one to throw into the vat.

And I bet the Chinese there will deliver their finest-quality products back to us in trade.
So we're effectively trading first-world meat for developing-nation meat.
Why?

 

[WilliamM2]

Doesn't affect me directly since I do not eat at MCD, but it is still mind boggling... And very very sad both for food safety concerns and jobs lost. Who would have thought that this is more economical than process chicken in the US? WTF?

McDonald's isn't mentioned anywhere in the article. It says Chicken nuggets, not McNuggets.

You know you can buy frozen nuggets in any grocery store.

 

[Oyeve]

This is what happens when fast-food workers want 15 bucks an hour.

 

[Aharami]

this is despicable. Not that I eat nuggets on a regular or even semi-regular basis, but I would get nuggets from wendy's every now and then. Looks like I will not be ordering chicken nuggets from anywhere anymore!

 

[Vic Vega]

Guess I won't be eating chicken nuggets anymore (not that I really did to begin with).

 

[MontyAC]

Won't change my diet since I don't eat chicken nuggets.

 

[SlitheryDee]

I don't like it, but what can we do about it ultimately? Nobody seems to want protectionist trade policies, and we all know that businesses aren't going to voluntarily do something one way when a cheaper way exists. So what then? Sit around and be pissed off at corporations for not doing the right thing out of the kindness of their hearts? That's ridiculous. Corporations aren't evil, but they don't have hearts either. They will simply follow the path to maximum profit in the same way that water will run down a hill.

 

[Scarpozzi]

It's ok....this is just part of Obamacare. Feed the country chicken nuggets that will kill them quicker so they're less of a liability in the long run.

 

[ponyo]

How soon will this go into effect? My family and I will stop eating any sort of chicken nuggets. Maybe Chick-fil-a or Zaxby's will advertise they use US processed chicken so people like me can vote with our wallet. I'm willing to pay extra to eat US processed food. I will not eat knowingly eat any food from China. One of the reason I shop at Trader Joe's is because they don't carry any food products from China.