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Packers Lobby for Chinese Chicken

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U.S. meat sector urges Congress to lift ban on Chinese chicken

By Tom Johnston on 7/28/2009


Major U.S. meat companies on Tuesday urged Congress to remove barriers to Chinese poultry imports to avert a potential retaliation on U.S. meat exports to China, according to a report by Reuters.

A coalition of companies including Tyson Foods, JBS S.A., Cargill, Seaboard, Sanderson Farms, Pilgrim's Pride, Smithfield Foods and Hormel Foods testified to a House committee that it is unfair to single out China when the United States offers access to any of the other 152 countries that are members of the World Trade Organization.

"We will not be able to avoid a serious trade confrontation with China if Congress does not reconsider" the ban, trade lawyer Kevin Brosch reportedly said, representing the coalition in a statement prepared for the agriculture appropriations subcommittee.

China has filed a WTO complaint concerning the ban, while trade groups have reported that Chinese importers already have begun to block shipments of U.S. chicken in retaliation.
 

PORKER

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Talk about CHicKen coming in and what benifits does it HAVE?? It's from China!
The EU farmer are P####D off too !

Brazilian beef still does not meet EU standards, claim farm leaders


Irish farm leaders noted that the latest European Commission Food and Veterinary Office investigation in Brazil showed that 50% of the holdings inspected failed to meet EU requirements.
However, the FVO report said significant improvements had been made since the previous missions in relation to holding, registration, animal identification and movement controls.

Irish Farmers Association president Padraig Walshe said the report shows beef production in Brazil flies in the face of EU standards.

Half of the holdings inspected failed to meet EU requirements on the important issues of registration, traceability and movement controls.

He said the FVO confirmation shows that the new system in Brazil of verifying farms for export to Europe is a failure.

Mr Walshe said the EU health and consumer affairs commissioner Androulla Vassiliou must bring an immediate halt to the process that has cleared over 1,200 Brazilian farms to date.

"This latest report had once again vindicated the findings of the IFA/Farmers Journal investigation in Brazil in 2007.

"That investigation found non-existent cattle traceability, widespread illegal removal and cutting out of tags, totally inadequate movement and foot and mouth disease controls and the use of hormone growth promoters," he said.

Irish Creamery Milk Suppliers Association Beef and Cattle Committee chairman Martin McMahon said six of the 12 farms inspected by the EU were found to have deficiencies.

Mr McMahon said Irish beef farmers are seeing their prices over 10% back on year earlier levels and are expected to compete against imports that have much lower standards which means costs are also substantially lower.

July 28, 2009
 

Sandhusker

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Helloooooo? MELAMINE????????????

I love this international trade, you can load your exports with poison and when anybody tries to stand up to you, all you have to do is mention the words "trade war" or "sanctions" and you're back in business. All that matters is money.
 

PORKER

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That investigation found non-existent cattle traceability, widespread illegal removal and cutting out of tags, totally inadequate movement and foot and mouth disease controls and the use of hormone growth promoters," he said.

We don't need Brazilian Beef or Chinese Chicken !!
 

RobertMac

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I'm a dumb Mississippi redneck, but do I have this right?

This coalition of companies wants to import chicken from China so they can export chicken to China??????
 
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The coalition includes the biggest U.S. meat companies -- Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N), JBS SA (JBSS3.SA), Cargill Inc [CARG.UL], Seaboard Corp (SEB.A), Sanderson Farms Inc (SAFM.O), Pilgrim's Pride Corp (PGPDQ.PK), Smithfield Foods Inc (SFD.N), and Hormel Foods Corp (HRL.N) -- as well as seed company Monsanto Co (MON.N) …





US should give Chinese chicken a chance-meat group



Reuters

Tue Jul 28, 2009
By Roberta Rampton



WASHINGTON, July 28 (Reuters) - The U.S. meat sector on Tuesday urged Congress to lift a ban that effectively prevents Chinese poultry imports in order to avoid retaliation on their own exports to China.



U.S. law allows any of the other 152 countries that belong to the World Trade Organization to be able to apply to export meat to the the United States, and it is unfair that China has been singled out, a coalition of meat companies and trade groups said in a testimony to a House committee that has championed the ban.



"We will not be able to avoid a serious trade confrontation with China if Congress does not reconsider" the measure, trade lawyer Kevin Brosch said, speaking for the coalition in remarks prepared for the House agriculture appropriations subcommittee.



China has launched a WTO complaint about the ban, and trade groups said China recently stopped issuing import permits for U.S. chicken in retaliation, threatening the largest market for U.S. poultry, worth almost $700 million per year.



The U.S. Agriculture Department has strict food safety standards for all meat, whether home-grown or imported, and should be allowed to evaluate the safety of China's poultry, Brosch said.



"We do not prejudge the outcome of that process and we respectfully suggest that this committee should not, either," Brosch said in his prepared remarks.



The coalition includes the biggest U.S. meat companies -- Tyson Foods Inc (TSN.N), JBS SA (JBSS3.SA), Cargill Inc [CARG.UL], Seaboard Corp (SEB.A), Sanderson Farms Inc (SAFM.O), Pilgrim's Pride Corp (PGPDQ.PK), Smithfield Foods Inc (SFD.N), and Hormel Foods Corp (HRL.N) -- as well as seed company Monsanto Co (MON.N), privately held companies and a raft of trade associations, such as the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.



The chicken ban is one of several prickly trade issues between China and the United States, which are engaged in two days of talks covering topics ranging from the economic downturn to climate change.



More than two years ago, the USDA's Food Safety and Inspection Service had been set to consider whether China's poultry plant standards were equivalent to those governing the U.S. system, the first step to allowing imports of poultry.



But Congress blocked the move, forbidding the USDA from spending money on the initiative in its annual budget bill because of worries about China's food safety standards.



The U.S. House has voted to extend the ban for another year. Rosa DeLauro, the Democrat who heads the agriculture appropriations subcommittee, has said she remains concerned about whether imports would be safe.



"We need to tread carefully," DeLauro told the hearing, noting she may hold more hearings into the issue.



A consumer watchdog group said current U.S. policy has allowed trade interests to trump public health concerns.



Instead of declaring foreign food safety systems as equivalent to U.S. systems, the USDA needs to reform its approval process and do its own monitoring of foreign plants, said Lori Wallach of Public Citizen.



"The case of China is perhaps the poster child for the inherent limitations of the equivalence concept,"
Wallach said in prepared testimony.



"It is impossible for the U.S. government to shift responsibility for U.S. consumers' safety into a government that has shown repeatedly that it will not even provide basic information about problems," she said.



The Senate has not yet passed its version of the annual department budget, but has proposed special inspections and audits that would allow for Chinese poultry imports. (Editing by Marguerita Choy)



reuters.com
 

Mike

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The public......or "Consumer" sector should carry some of the blame for unsafe importations of food.

They seem to be in an apathetic mode when it comes to food safety and for Corporate shenanigans.

When the scare of unsafe foods first hit the news last year....... automatically food from China should have stopped selling to the general public. Including those that were even suspected of being imported from China.

The human nature aspect of greed has come to light in the Corporate boardroom and the public does not care nor does anything about it, just like the public had rather pay less for food........no matter the origination.

When is the last time you saw a rebellion by the shareholders of a Corporation against the Board of Directors or CEO?

The next time a person tells me that they had rather shop at Wal-Mart because of low prices, I think I will puke................
 

Tex

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Mike said:
The public......or "Consumer" sector should carry some of the blame for unsafe importations of food.

They seem to be in an apathetic mode when it comes to food safety and for Corporate shenanigans.

When the scare of unsafe foods first hit the news last year....... automatically food from China should have stopped selling to the general public. Including those that were even suspected of being imported from China.

The human nature aspect of greed has come to light in the Corporate boardroom and the public does not care nor does anything about it, just like the public had rather pay less for food........no matter the origination.

When is the last time you saw a rebellion by the shareholders of a Corporation against the Board of Directors or CEO?

The next time a person tells me that they had rather shop at Wal-Mart because of low prices, I think I will puke................

I agree, Mike.

Tex
 

PORKER

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Grocerys and Retailers cartoon

You can buy an eat $hit if it is cheap enough as long as you don't get sick an die!
 

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