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KFC, Pizza, Hut, McDonalds on the hot seat!

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Deere Scotty

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Well I certainly didn"t know they were getting meat from China; But undercover cameras showed Chinese employees using discarded, & rejected meat to process for fast food chains that was bound for the US. They have outlets in China; But this was coming hear according to the news!

I posted a couple of weeks ago about the Chinese investors coming over here, & buying multi thousand acre ranches, raising alfalfa to send to China, & now I find out the beef they can raise with it comes back probably lead, & Salmonella ridden to say the least!
 
The news stories I'm finding via google are for Mcdonalds and KFC restaurants *IN* China. USA Today, Reuters, etc:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2014/07/21/mcdonalds-kfc-china-scandal/12929885/

http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/07/21/us-yum-brands-food-safety-idUSKBN0FQ01P20140721

Nothing about "bound for USA restaurants" from these reputable news sources.

It doesn't make economic sense to ship raw meat from China to the USA anyway. Just the refrigeration costs alone would make the meat far more expensive than anything you could buy here. It takes weeks for a container ship to make its way here, and in the meantime they'd have to maintain reefer units or you'd have nothing but a container of decomposed garbage that even the worst customs inspector would not allow in the country.
 
Ya,this sounds like what my brother in law was all up in arms about a few months ago. Said he'd heard on television (of course) that the Chinese were shipping chicken here. I just told him if he dug deep enough that PETA or HSUS was probably at the bottom of that rumor and he'd do best to keep eating chicken and forget it.
 
Reefer/freezer container ships very common for many, many years. Fact is, 91% of all seafood consumed in the United states is imported from abroad. Paul Greenberg's book "American Catch" published this year is a real eye opener. Saw on Kentucky Afield the other evening that there is a new industry exporting silver carp caught in the Ohio River and is processed by a Chinese owned company in Wickliffe.The Chinese people prefer the U.S. carp to their own. We definitely have an endless supply!
(former) prawn farmer
 
That's why we only go to In-N-Out for burgers. They don't have a freezer nor a microwave. Hamburger is bought fresh daily; potatoes are peeled, sliced and cooked as you watch. They pay the help much better and get really good help.
 
They are definitely shipping dog food here because it killed a bunch of dogs a couple years ago.And if I have to choose between McDonalds and dog food well bring on the Alpo.
 
Those were chicken jerky dog treats, not dog food. Dog food is too cheap per pound to pay to ship grain to China, process it it into dog food, and then ship it back.
 
I work for one of Smithfield's subsidiary's that raises hogs for Smithfield! I can tell you from what I see and hear, the main thing that goes in our hog feed (and I work in truck/trailer maintenance) is corn/wheat/bean meal/fat and medicine if needed up to six weeks before they "finish feed" them. I hate that they sold out to China, but so far, haven't seen any adverse effects. The main reason for the China sale was to make more pork available to China and we only sold 11% or so of their gross pork consumption a few years ago. Gotta be careful what you wish for, because it can come back and bite ya!!
 
And we have been importing beef from Canada and South America for years (that's cause we feed the world ROFL).



Rick
 
Wife shops at two different grocery stores. She tells me she has to hunt for American products! She says the vast majority of other people just pick an item and don't seem to care.
We had corned beef and cabbage yesterday and she had a lot of trouble finding the corned beef.
She also had to hunt for American Fish.
 
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