Posted on 11/02/2009 9:24:41 PM PST by Selene
And now some welcome news for a change: In a little-noticed move, the U.S. Congress tore down a barrier to imports of chicken from China last week. It's a victory for free trade and for a more rational approach to safety standards.
President Obama signed an appropriations bill Wednesday that clears the way for the imports by allowing the U.S. Department of Agriculture to conduct in China the safety inspections U.S. law requires for any country exporting food to America. The congressional move in 2007 to block funding for those regulatory steps amounted to an import ban. Now USDA will go through its normal regulatory process to open the door to Chinese imports, which could take 18 months or so.
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“Just about every month I find another reason to stay vegan.”
There will never be such a reason!!!!
They had better have to clearly mark any chicken as originating in China so I can avoid it. I don’t even want to think of what kind of problems this will bring. And so what if we banned it outright, since they haven’t complied with even pet food regulations to date.
Yeah, our trade "leadership" is really in question. Our annual trade deficit is around $700 billion now, and $266 billion deficit with China in 2008.
And will these Chinese chicken products be labeled at to country of origin? Many have been blocking that bit of information for US consumers, for years.
As to your first point: no one in their right mind. As to your second point, carbon footprint only matters when it is a tool of controlling the masses and making the likes of al gore powerful and wealthy.
Chicken McNuggets
mmmm mmmmm mmmmm!
Newt—tastes like chicken.
We will have to agree to disagree on this matter.
Regards, Bart.
Anyone who buys Chinese chickens is an idiot.
Yikes, your right.
You're probably right. They were Clinton friends as I remember.
Watch our poultry industry become noncompetitive real fast. But according to the Obama method of looking at things: They are based in states not on our team> screw them...
I would rephrase that. He acts like one.
Let me know when that thing is ready for sale...
Why did the Newt cross the road?
Now you can’t say “mmmm mmmm mmmm” without the obligatory “Barack Hussein Obama”!!!!!
If it will run on bullcrap then the emissions from Washington DC alone could light up the world.
The Chinese don’t care for their animals well. PETA won’t have any chicken farms here to picket.
A flaw in your logic. If the Chinese are growing the chickens to export to The U.S. they can keep the nasty parts we won't eat.
Probably can make more by doing that than importing muslims to butcher chickens grown in the US.
To sell a book or some other crap. You tell me.
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