Unbelievable.....Soon it will be more than just dog treats!!!

[Gail and Bailey]

I read this recently....... The  US Department of Agriculture has given permission for chicken products processed in the People’s Republic of China to be sold in the United States without labeling that would indicate where the chicken products came from.  The chickens will be slaughtered in the U.S.  or  Canada,  then shipped to China for processing and re-export.

Initially, the companies will be allowed to export only cooked poultry products from birds raised in the United States and Canada.  But critics predicted that the government would eventually expand the rules, so that chickens and turkeys bred in China could end up in the American market.

 Then I just ran across this...

This week, police in China's Xi’an province reported that they had found and seized more than 22 tons of fake beef at a local factory. Get this: the “beef” was actually made from pork (which is considerably cheaper than beef) that had been treated with chemicals including paraffin wax and industrial salts to make it look like it came from a cow.  Shanghiist reports that the factory sold more than 1,500 kilos (3,000 pounds) of the fake beef to local markets at around 25 to 33 yuan ($4 or $5) per kilo. Six workshops that were producing the fake beef have been discovered and shut down.

This isn’t the first instance of fake meat being sold in China. In May of this year,  Medical Daily reported that 904 people were arrested in China for “meat-related offenses” over three months at the beginning of 2013. Included in these arrests was one gang of meat crooks who made over 10 million yuan ($1.6 million) by selling rat, fox, and mink meat at markets. This makes us wonder what impostor foods we might be eating, which in turn makes us very, very uncomfortable.

http://firstwefeast.com/eat/20000-kilos-of-fake-beef-seized-in-xian...

[Maryann,Roo and Tigger]

This is truly truly nuts and short sighted.  Doesn't anyone at the DA eat chicken or have a dog?