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Blue Owl

(50,336 posts)
24. This is completely unacceptable
Tue Nov 12, 2013, 02:14 PM
Nov 2013

Privatizing gone bad -- real bad...



We can't let the corporations get away with this one, or someday soon we will be very sorry.

They'd rather pay the high shipping and fuel costs, than pay Americans to do the work. arcane1 Nov 2013 #1
We are changing our light bulbs..trying to go Green and SHIPPING CHICKENS KoKo Nov 2013 #4
I used to work for a container ship company. Every year, our export business declined. arcane1 Nov 2013 #5
Thanks for your experience with this. So Chickens are now our way to KoKo Nov 2013 #18
So who's going to be using this chicken warrior1 Nov 2013 #2
Probably Walmart and the article noted Chick-Fil-A and Burger King Incitatus Nov 2013 #9
And I don't shop at those places thanks warrior1 Nov 2013 #11
Schools. SCHOOLS. WinkyDink Nov 2013 #16
Interesting because I was confused about this sentence. Maraya1969 Nov 2013 #12
self delete because it is way past my bedtime and I am not processing what I read. nt Mojorabbit Nov 2013 #22
Already happening with fish Agony Nov 2013 #3
Any import should be to OUR standards. leanforward Nov 2013 #6
I wonder if the looming TPP will even allow food to be labeled as to where it was processed. djean111 Nov 2013 #7
Thank you Senator Shumer davidpdx Nov 2013 #8
He's not as "all over it" as you might wish to think hatrack Nov 2013 #10
I've never trusted Schumer....so thanks for your reply. I wondered why he was KoKo Nov 2013 #14
+1. jsr Nov 2013 #21
I'm often confused Texasgal Nov 2013 #13
I've never understood "Cost/Benefit" for the fuel to send goods from US to China KoKo Nov 2013 #17
"Despite China’s deadly food-safety record...." FIXED. Whose Administration is this, again? WinkyDink Nov 2013 #15
There is nothing good for America in this, not one thing Marrah_G Nov 2013 #19
I won't eat it. 840high Nov 2013 #20
Problem is...it won't be labeled so how will we know where it comes from? KoKo Nov 2013 #23
This is completely unacceptable Blue Owl Nov 2013 #24
Going vegetarian is looking more and more appealing Oilwellian Nov 2013 #25
They are considering importing chickens born, raised and proc'd in China, too elehhhhna Nov 2013 #26
I try to find some way to deal with this but...can't. KoKo Nov 2013 #28
For many years now, it has been the policy of the Chinese government of become the food processor Ikonoklast Nov 2013 #27
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