My friend went into a Walmart in Reno, about 8:15 am, while there the staff there were covering up with thick blue plastic tarps all of the meats, cheese, dairy, sliced meats
Only thing available was vegetable, canned and frozen foods. No explanation why these were all covered up. Something strange happening
Plus dairy
Food was under there, they reached in and hamburger
No they didn’t ask, I said I’d be asking everyone, what’s going on. It seems like Walmart got some kind of notice to not sell these products, otherwise they would change out during the night, not when people are shopping.
Walmart buys a lot of their food from
China. USDA food made a deal with China in 2012-13 to ship live chickens to China to process them and send back to US
American chickens processed in China, USDA allows this
American chickens processed in China, USDA allows this
Brain December 15, 2019 2
This sounds like one of these outrageous stories that your grandma keeps sharing on Facebook, without even fact checking whether it is true. Well, this one is true. Or at least partially true.
There was a ban on American chickens in China, as part of trade war incited by Trump administration. As of 2019, things are cooling down. U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has recently reached a compromise with Chinese authorities. American farmers will be able to ship poultry to China for processing and packaging. The processed products can be shipped back to the United States, and be labelled as “American raised chickens”. The meat does not need to be labeled as processed in China.
U.S. chickens transported to China and back – what’s the point?
Chicken meat - Chinese cuisine
Chicken meat and other ingredients for lou mei – Cantonese cuisine.
Several Chinese companies are already whitelisted, after having undergone USDA safety checks. Exporting U.S. chickens to China and bringing them back seems like an unnecessarily convoluted process. What’s the point? First issue is the cheap labor. According to estimations by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, American poultry processing worker is paid approximately $11 per hour. Their Chinese counterpart will work for $1-$2 per hour.
Different taste of American and Chinese consumers also helps. Market for chicken feet is almost non-existant in the U.S., whereas Chinese cuisine makes use of chicken feet eagerly. So, along with some other parts, the feet can stay in China, while chicken breasts loved by Americans are re-imported after return journey of 13,000 miles.
https://thefactsource.com/american-chickens-processed-in-china-usda-allows-this/
BUSINESS NEWS
DECEMBER 16, 20191:32 PMUPDATED A YEAR AGO
Tyson Foods cleared to ship poultry to China from all U.S. plants
By Tom Polansek
CHICAGO (Reuters) - Tyson Foods Inc received approval from U.S. and Chinese authorities to export American poultry to China from all 36 of its U.S. processing plants and expects to begin taking orders early next year, a chief supply chain officer for the company said.
U.S. chicken companies are eager to resume sales in China after Beijing last month lifted a nearly five-year ban on imports as Chinese consumers seek pork alternatives. A deadly hog disease has killed millions of pigs and raised meat prices in the pork-loving country.
Increased Chinese purchases of products like chicken feet, wing tips and legs would help increase U.S. agricultural exports to China as the two countries negotiate a trade deal.
“There’s an extreme amount of interest across all those parts from multiple buyers in China,” Bernie Adcock, Tyson Foods’ chief supply chain officer for poultry, said in an interview on Friday.
The U.S. Trade Representative last month projected more than $1 billion in annual poultry shipments to China.
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-tyson-foods-china-poultry-idUSKBN1YK1UL
I’m glad your mother>>12105234
We buy almost all our pork from there, or at least processed there. If they willingly poison they’re own people, which they do, why wouldn’t they do it to America
Agreed Anon, people have been betrayed by usda and mega farms, we’re being poisoned by our own country and China