Posted on 01/04/2016 4:00:02 AM PST by EinNYC
Edited on 01/04/2016 8:47:07 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON (AP) -- It's now harder to find out where your beef or pork was born, raised and slaughtered.
After more than a decade of wrangling, Congress repealed a labeling law last month that required retailers to include the animal's country of origin on packages of red meat. It's a major victory for the meat industry, which had fought the law in Congress and the courts since the early 2000s.
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The alternative is to get partners and contract with a farmer to raise a steer, slaughter & package it for you. Then you know ( if you look into at more than a surface level ) all about what you are consuming.
U.S. consumers who give a sh!t about where there meat comes from should insist on having the meat labeled. If we need Congress to mandate this kind of nonsense then we really are a pathetic nation after all.
Since visiting aquaculture operations in China several years ago I have been careful to avoid eating fish listing China as country of origin.
For several decades the US poultry industry has been a big beneficiary of illegal immigrant labor. Illegals work for low wages in poultry processing plants doing work Americans citizens depending on welfare benefits will not do.
Now US poultry producers plan to move the processing of chickens from American farms to Asia. Chickens will be shipped to China where they will be defeathered, processed, flash frozen, packaged and shipped back to the USA.
The dirty little secret no one will talk about is the Chinese have a major issue with avian flu. Does anyone really believe when American chickens and Chinese chickens are processed in the same factories there will be strict segregation of chickens. More likely the healthy US origin chickens will be packaged and shipped to Chinese consumer and the sick Asian chickens will be processed and ship to US tables. Without country of origin on packaging we will never no. Certainly there will be no FDA inspectors in China watching. The CEO’s of the big agriculture companies will be looking the other way as well.
The primary purpose of government is to protect the citizens. Our government fails on many levels. Open borders, outsourcing of the manufacturing, and now outsourcing of the food supply make US citizens vulnerable.
However, in the 2016 election 95% of the Congressmen and Congresswomen who fail to stand up for the people will be reelected. The people get the government they deserve.
Donald Trump can change this to the good!
Please let it be soon.
The trick is to find local suppliers, it’s the only way to be sure of what you’re eating.
I don’t trust the Chinese to do anything, let alone make my food.
When I was very young my dad bought a large freezer. He and a friend bought a beef and a local butcher butchered and wrapped it. Half a cow is a lot of beef, and cheap.
With this in mind, I can tell you that a "Made in America" label wouldn't mean much in terms of food quality and safety.
A little melamine never hurt anyone.
I sell quite a few of my calves this way. Grass fed calves straight off of the cow. No shots or steroids. It is a beef taste that is a different experience and does not taste like beef you by at a market. Totally different. It has to do with the fat content. It is grass and milk fat and not a corn fat.
I cannot stand to buy meat from a store. Like eating grease and not meat.
We raise our own chicken and this meat is also a completely different taste. Low fat content, no growth hormones and tastes like meat not moooooosh.
There is no clean water in China except for spring water high in the mountains. Their shrimp is raised in sewage. Yuck. Always look for China on the label but in the future South Carolina fresh shrimp only
>> U.S. meat producers should simply do — voluntarily — what Congress was trying to mandate by law.
Lots of good comments on this thread — of which yours is my favorite.
That would be the least of my worries about Chinese origin foods. Whenever a chicken or duck in a flock is found to have avian flu, the whole flock is culled and the bodies burned. The Chinese do not allow infected poultry into the food supply. Avian flu infected birds are a hazard to poultry processors and food preparers, and avian flu can be 30% (H7N9) or 60% (H5N1) fatal to humans.
I would worry about Chinese origin foods for the pollution levels (the animals are breathing that polluted air) and for adulteration issues. If you buy "ground meat" processed in China, do you know what is in it?
Meat labeling makes sense. “GMO” labeling does not. If “GMO” foods are labeled honestly, every food that is not caught or harvested from the wild will have a label.
I agree with the poster who suggests that US meat producers label their meat accordingly.
If consumers want the information, they will buy only meat that is labeled. I won’t be taking home any meat not born in the U.S.A.
China does processing and also makes many food “ingrediants” used in US processing. It’s a NWO out there.
Oh ya, the way food is going nowadays, I am only looking for in season items, and things I know the source of.
I’m convinced that people aren’t living as longer or as healthy due to intentional tampering with our food.
It’s just one more reason the government wants to control all food production.
I don’t think anything in China is clean. It’s a good example of why we need to watch who we let in here.
U.S. meat producers are anxious to import meat and pass it off as U.S.-bred by virtue of the brand name, not actual country of origin.
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