Did He Finally Do Something Right?

[hikerchick]

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Yeah - we're not citizens of the world, anyway. We exist alone!

 

[Southernbelle]

I will never understand world politics.

This just makes no sense. If we're sending chicken there and they're sending chicken here - why go through that expense? Why don't they keep theirs and we'll keep ours. Geesh.

I guess I'm naive.

 

[chickenbottom]

i think usa needs to keep their chickens here and china needs to learn that chicken from any place in the world still tastes like chicken

 

[WalkingWolf]

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Yes that one puzzles me too. Why in the world waste all that energy and money exchanging chickens. It just doesn't make much sense.

 

[WalkingWolf]

BTW does China still have a ban on US beef?

 

[cmjust0]

It takes something like this for people to wake up and realize that things aren't right.. People see a story like this and go...wait a minute...if China needed to import 4 million tons of chicken from the US, how is it that they're complaining that they can't export chicken back to us? If they had chicken to export, why were they importing?

Or, to put it more simply...why in the world are we trading chickens with China?

Answer...because before the ban, we were exporting good chicken and importing crap chicken, much like with do with a lot of other food. We grow the good stuff here and sell it overseas, then import junk. It's like selling the good homegrown tomatoes out of your own garden for a premium, then using part of the proceeds to buy crap tomatoes at the store, thereby allowing you to pocket the difference.

The good news is that MCOOL is here, and people are paying attention to where their food comes from these days. I know of several people who are forgoing buying "fresh" produce at the store because seemingly everything has a "product of mexico" sticker on it these days..

 

[DuckyBoys]

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And pork???

 

[redhen]

China dosent have the same food regulations we have..
Christ..we cant even get safe PET food from them....i dont want to eat their chicken! Nope..

 

[Southernbelle]

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That is appalling! I am absolutely stunned. I suppose it makes sense from a money standpoint: business is business and all that - but the businessmen are slitting their own throats with that one!

I guess I'll raise some meat chickens ...

 

[cmjust0]

Yep.. In 2004, the United States of America became a net importer of food.

Prime example... We ship high quality USDA beef to foreign countries where it's considered the best of the best and goes for top dollar, only to turn around and buy lower quality beef from Chile and Argentina and Mexico in return..

Those of us who raise livestock are familiar with the labels on our Penicillin, Oxytetracycline, vaccines, and so forth... All are labeled with withdrawal times for slaughter animals.. We also know that an animal has to be able to walk before it's allowed to be slaughtered for human consumption.. Those are USDA regulations.

Does anybody really think the "authorities" in Uruguay or Chile or Mexico are quite so concerned about withdrawal times? Do you think they care if that animal can walk before they knock it in the head?

Maybe they do, maybe they don't...I haven't been, so I don't know. Something tells me, though, that those folks are going to do whatever they can to get their money, regardless of the shape a given animal's in.