Chinese-Chicken Hazards

    Food safety is a very important issue. And where the foods come from matters more than almost anything.
    The US Govt has some very strict standards for food safety, even though we hear often enough of ‘breaks in the system’ that allow contaminated foods to enter the food distribution system.  This is why food traceability is so very important. Being able to find the point of origin of all of your foods is a handy thing. That is why I am growing with a food traceability company called www.toptenproduce.com  that will enable even small growers to afford the usually very expensive labels and registration codes for the bar codes.  In fact, we were the first Charter Grower in the Nation to join the Top 10 Brand.

 

   Most ‘underdeveloped’ countries have a much looser system of food regulations, if they have any at all. It is in my travels through some ‘Third-World’ countries that I ceased eating meat for some time…. I saw how the animals were treated in the small villages, the terrible transport the live animals had to endure stacked five feet high on top of one-another trussed-up in the back of donkey-carts for the travels through the towns.  The live animals would be tossed across the streets to land with a thud and a bleat on the stoop of a butcher shop…. hours later I would see the fresh meat hung on hooks hanging outside the shop to entice shoppers to buy. Of course the meat would be buzzing with flies.  Even though such countries still have produce-sanitation issues from planting to distribution of plant materials…. often due to the use of untreated sewage (called ‘night soil’ by the folks describing such methods as ‘quaint’) and also to lax controls over packing operations… the risk of illness from plant material is probably much lower in general than the risk from improperly handled meat.

 

   An uncle of mine was a ‘Sino-phile’ (someone who studies China and its culture and history), he was one of the first Americans allowed entry into China in the early seventies. He made several trips through a couple of decades, and remarked on his respect for the advances China had made in that time.  Still, China has not had a good record of civil rights for the last 80 years…. neither has its desire been to protect the people or the environment.    The text and images below were sent to me by another Sino-phile I know…. so it was a bit of a surprise to find something so ‘anti-Chinese-products’ from someone who has a home replete with Chinese textures, fabrics and artwork…. but even when we love and appreciate something…. when there are egregious works being done, it does neither them nor us any good to ignore the obvious and continue importing the shoddy merchandise.  

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The whole world is scared of China made ‘black hearted goods’.Can  
you differentiate which one is made in the USA , Philippines ,  
Taiwan or China ? For your Information … the first 3 digits of the  
barcode is the country code wherein the product was made. Sample: all  
barcodes that start with 690.691.692 until 695 are all MADE IN  
CHINA. 471 is Made in Taiwan

 This is our human right to know, but the government and related  
department never educate the public, therefore we have to RESCUE  
ourselves. Nowadays, Chinese businessmen know that consumers do not  
prefer products ‘made in China’, so they don’t show from which  
country it is made.
 However, you may now refer to the barcode, remember if the first 3  
digits is 690 to 695, then it is Made in China ..

 00 ~ 13 USA & CANADA
 30 ~ 37 FRANCE
 40 ~ 44 GERMANY
 49 ~ JAPAN
 50 ~ UK
 57 ~ Denmark
 64 ~ Finland
 76 ~ Switzerland and Lienchtenstein
 628 ~ Saudi-Arabien
 629 ~ United Arab Emirates
 740 ~ 745 – Central America
 All 480 Codes are Made in the Philippines.

 This is sickening but it is an alert to read labels and always buy  
fresh when you can. DO NOT BUY FOOD PROCESSED IN CHINA , HONG KONG , VIETNAM AND  
THAILAND !!! no food inspection!!!

 Have a taste for chicken tenders? READ THIS

 WATCH WHAT YOU BUY. ESPECIALLY (brand-name redacted) FISH PRODUCTS; all come  
from China , even though the box says ‘ product of Canada ‘, it is  
from China and’processed’ in Canada , that is, the coating is added  
and packaged in Canada only! The fish are raised in pens using  
chemicals that are banned here in Canada as cancer causing but legal  
in China . This was exposed on CBC TV’s Marketplace .
 This one will make you think before buying anything from China .

 Well, are you enjoying seeing Chinese food popping up in your  
supermarket left and right? Have you noticed you can’t buy a single  
package of fish that isn’t made in China (or Vietnam )? Do you think  
your food from China is processed in a sanitary manner, and thus  
safe to eat? Take a look at this!! .

 THINK ABOUT IT.These undercover enclosed pictures speak a thousand  
words. Avoid buying all processed food packaged in China. Anything  
goes! We just don’t know what else is in those packages. Unlike in  
the U.S. And CANADA , China does not have laws regulating food  
processing.

 Basically, do not buy any processed food from China, also Hong  
Kong , too. MANY companies are using a Hong Kong address to avoid  
this type of image reputation.

 Early dawn, starts the day by riding around to collect dead chickens.

 Asking around for dead chickens.

 Total of 5 riders are hired by the boss to ride to farms to buy dead  chickens.

 A dead chicken cost 1 RMB and would be sold at 9 RMB after processing.

 Storage for the dead chickens in the court yard.

 Carcasses are thrown everywhere.

 And on the floor….
 Four employees start de-feathering the dead fowl after soaking in  
boiling water from a rusty wok.

 Enduring the pungent odor, but sometime,
it gets so terrible that even the most experienced of the workers would puke.

 Workers rushing to get the chickens de-feathered.

 A discarded bath tub being used to soak the bare skin dead  chickens….
The contaminated water would have accelerated the decomposition process.

 Wearing slippers walking among the chickens before the coloring  processing.

 After the color dye, its creepy to find that they are quite tenderized.

 And now presenting the mouth watering Charcoal Roasted Chicken!

 Send to as many people as possible. Do NOT buy food originating in  
China (or Vietnam or Thailand)! Take the time to read the labels and  
 look for country of origin! STOP BUYING ANYTHING FROM CHINA . PERIOD!

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   I somewhat hesitate to share this, as it is a bit controversial…. and I hope the circumstances are an anomaly….
but knowing how folks like to save money…. and make money, and some don’t care who or what gets hurt in the process, I feel it is worth sharing.