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Take Action: Ask Congress to Maintain the Ban on Chinese Chicken
Health & Wellness  (tags: warning, safety, risks, protection, prevention, nutrition, illness, health, food, government, family, ethics, disease, children, China, food, poultry, law, profit, Tyson, chicken, imports )

Chris
- 231 days ago - action.foodandwaterwatch.org
In 2008, Congress successfully blocked the U.S. Department of Agriculture from allowing imported processed poultry from China. However, corporations such as Tyson and Cargill have been putting pressure on Congress to lift the ban so they can profit more.
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Carolyn T. (233)
Monday April 13, 2009, 5:06 pm
noted; read and edited message and sent it out immediately upon reading your story, Chris. We need to take this threat very seriously...and that is precisely what it is: a threat. Thank you!
 

Elena P. (504)
Tuesday April 14, 2009, 7:07 am
Thank you Chris for posting this. I can not believe that they are even thinking of importing chinese chicken ...
 

Elena P. (504)
Tuesday April 14, 2009, 7:08 am
And action taken for sure.
 

Cheryl S. (58)
Wednesday April 15, 2009, 1:42 am
noted and action done....thanks chris
 

Simone D. (891)
Wednesday April 15, 2009, 9:43 am
Thank you Chris.
 
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