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villager

(26,001 posts) Fri Sep 6, 2013, 12:57 PM Sep 2013

Was Your Chicken Nugget Made In China? It'll Soon Be Hard To Know

Here's a bit of news that might make you drop that chicken nugget midbite.

Just before the start of the long holiday weekend last Friday, the U.S. Department of Agriculture quietly announced that it was ending a ban on processed chicken imports from China. The kicker: These products can now be sold in the U.S. without a country-of-origin label.

For starters, just four Chinese processing plants will be allowed to export cooked chicken products to the U.S., as first reported by Politico. The plants in question passed USDA inspection in March. Initially, these processors will only be allowed to export chicken products made from birds that were raised in the U.S. and Canada. Because of that, the poultry processors won't be required to have a USDA inspector on site, as The New York Times notes, adding:

"And because the poultry will be processed, it will not require country-of-origin labeling. Nor will consumers eating chicken noodle soup from a can or chicken nuggets in a fast-food restaurant know if the chicken came from Chinese processing plants."

That's a pretty disturbing thought for anyone who's followed the slew of stories regarding food safety failures in China in recent years. As we've previously reported on The Salt, this year alone, thousands of dead pigs turned up in the waters of Shanghai, rat meat was passed off as mutton and — perhaps most disconcerting for U.S. consumers — there was an outbreak of the H7N9 bird flu virus among live fowl in fresh meat markets.

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http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/05/219377718/was-your-chicken-nugget-made-in-china-itll-soon-be-hard-to-know

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Was Your Chicken Nugget Made In China? It'll Soon Be Hard To Know (Original Post) villager Sep 2013 OP

More importantly will it be really aged.... Historic NY Sep 2013 #1

At no extra cost! villager Sep 2013 #2

Dont eat nuggets, bites, fingers, tenders, or any other part you cant recognize NightWatcher Sep 2013 #3

indeed. Eat -- and buy -- as locally as you possibly can. villager Sep 2013 #5

It's the only way to combat the globalization of food distribution. reformist2 Sep 2013 #9

Its hard to find the Popes Nose, so I guess thats included.... Historic NY Sep 2013 #7

But will it have fibers?... SidDithers Sep 2013 #4

You are welcome to everyone's leftover McNuggets, Sid! villager Sep 2013 #6

You forgot to link with story about 50 year old chicken feet Generic Other Sep 2013 #8

They look like something from Mars......scary... BlueJazz Sep 2013 #11

oh no poor spent laying hens,grade B/C bruised broken chickens, chicks sexed as male. Sunlei Sep 2013 #10

American Journal of Medicine: Just what is in that chicken nugget? proverbialwisdom Oct 2013 #12

Historic NY

(37,451 posts)

1. More importantly will it be really aged....

Reply to villager (Original post)

Fri Sep 6, 2013, 01:21 PM

Sep 2013

villager

(26,001 posts)

2. At no extra cost!

Reply to Historic NY (Reply #1)

Fri Sep 6, 2013, 01:45 PM

Sep 2013

Ain't the free market grand!?

NightWatcher

(39,343 posts)

3. Dont eat nuggets, bites, fingers, tenders, or any other part you cant recognize

Reply to villager (Original post)

Fri Sep 6, 2013, 01:49 PM

Sep 2013

Oh yes, and dont eat cheap meat from mass producers. Eat local, eat fresh, eat what you know from who you know.

villager

(26,001 posts)

5. indeed. Eat -- and buy -- as locally as you possibly can.

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #3)

Fri Sep 6, 2013, 04:05 PM

Sep 2013

Which I guess is gonna happen anyway once "collapse" rolls around!

reformist2

(9,841 posts)

9. It's the only way to combat the globalization of food distribution.

Reply to villager (Reply #5)

Sat Sep 7, 2013, 12:33 AM

Sep 2013

One shocker I've noticed recently is that a lot of the frozen veggies now.... yup, from China!

Historic NY

(37,451 posts)

7. Its hard to find the Popes Nose, so I guess thats included....

Reply to NightWatcher (Reply #3)

Sat Sep 7, 2013, 12:09 AM

Sep 2013

SidDithers

(44,228 posts)

4. But will it have fibers?...

Reply to villager (Original post)

Fri Sep 6, 2013, 01:51 PM

Sep 2013

Note: posted as an example of some of the ridiculous shit coming from the alt-med community, and especially Mike "The Health Danger" Adams, and naturalnews.com.

Sid

villager

(26,001 posts)

6. You are welcome to everyone's leftover McNuggets, Sid!

Reply to SidDithers (Reply #4)

Fri Sep 6, 2013, 04:06 PM

Sep 2013

Since mass-produced corporate "food products" are clearly your thing!

Eat up! Enjoy!

Generic Other

(28,979 posts)

8. You forgot to link with story about 50 year old chicken feet

Reply to villager (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2013, 12:30 AM

Sep 2013

There's something fishy about these chickens.
Chinese police have uncovered an illegal food storage site in China's southern city of Nanning that reportedly contained chicken feet nearly a half century old. According to the South China Morning Post, more than 20 tonnes of expired meat were seized in the raid, including beef tripe, cartilage, and the aforementioned chicken feet, some of which dated all the way back to 1967. The site was busted back in May, though the details of the operation have only been made public recently.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/12/china-old-chicken-feet_n_3588381.html

BlueJazz

(25,348 posts)

11. They look like something from Mars......scary...

Reply to Generic Other (Reply #8)

Sat Sep 7, 2013, 01:08 AM

Sep 2013

Sunlei

(22,651 posts)

10. oh no poor spent laying hens,grade B/C bruised broken chickens, chicks sexed as male.

Reply to villager (Original post)

Sat Sep 7, 2013, 12:50 AM

Sep 2013

'processing' work done in china. ewwww.

proverbialwisdom

(4,959 posts)

12. American Journal of Medicine: Just what is in that chicken nugget?

Reply to villager (Original post)

Sat Oct 5, 2013, 01:03 PM

Oct 2013

http://news.yahoo.com/just-chicken-nugget-131533269.html

Just what is in that chicken nugget?

October 4, 2013 9:15 AM
By Kathryn Doyle

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Stand-up comedians have long joked that some things, like the actual components of chicken nuggets, are better left mysterious.

Recently, Mississippi researchers found out why: two nuggets they examined consisted of 50 percent or less chicken muscle tissue, the breast or thigh meat that comes to mind when a customer thinks of "chicken."

The nuggets came from two national fast food chains in Jackson. The three researchers selected one nugget from each box, preserved, dissected and stained the nuggets, then looked at them under a microscope.

The first nugget was about half muscle, with the rest a mix of fat, blood vessels and nerves. Close inspection revealed cells that line the skin and internal organs of the bird, the authors write in the American Journal of Medicine.

The second nugget was only 40 percent muscle, and the remainder was fat, cartilage and pieces of bone.

"We all know white chicken meat to be one of the best sources of lean protein available and encourage our patients to eat it," lead author Dr. Richard D. deShazo of the University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson, said.

"What has happened is that some companies have chosen to use an artificial mixture of chicken parts rather than low-fat chicken white meat, batter it up and fry it and still call it chicken," deShazo told Reuters Health.

"It is really a chicken by-product high in calories, salt, sugar and fat that is a very unhealthy choice. Even worse, it tastes great and kids love it and it is marketed to them."

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SOURCE: http://bit.ly/16Inpg8 American Journal of Medicine, online September 13, 2013.

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