>>8165467
I read an article similar to this about 6 years ago and posted on FB at that time, it’s outrageous that Tyson and other American companies were required (or chose), to ship the live chickens to China so chineses could process them, and then return to the US, a process that could take 6-10 weeks enroute, is such a waste, and there’s no longer actually fresh chicken in our grocery stores anymore. I was so outraged.
And it’s not only chicken! The real question is, what comes into our ports as disease when they ship them back? It’s not like China is the most sanitary country
Pretty damn convenient for China who has wanted and still wants the destruction of the US, to go fucking around with our food. Damn, there’s probably so much to dig on this one thing, Obama’s FDA allowed this to happen.
CHICAGO: Tyson Foods Inc received approval from US and Chinese authorities to export American poultry to China from all 36 of its US processing plants and expects to begin taking orders early next year, a chief supply chain officer for the company said.
US 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 US 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 US Trade Representative last month projected more than US$1 billion in annual poultry shipments to China.
Beijing banned US poultry and eggs in January 2015 over a US outbreak of avian flu, closing a market that bought US$500 million worth of American poultry products in 2013, according to the US Department of Agriculture (USDA).
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/tyson-foods-cleared-to-ship-poultry-to-china-from-all-us-plants-12188932