USDA Says Okay To Ship U.S. Chicken to China for Cheap Processing (then re-entry to States for human consumption)

USDA Says Okay To Ship U.S. Chicken to China for Cheap Processing (then re-entry to States for human consumption) chichicken ft report this ad China1“Chinese chicken” will soon have a whole new meaning, as the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently gave the green-light to four chicken processing plants in China, allowing chicken raised and slaughtered in the U.S. to be exported to China for processing, and then shipped back to the U.S. and sold on grocery shelves here. Furthermore, the imported processed poultry will not require a country-of-origin label nor will U.S. inspectors be on site at processing plants in China before it is shipped to the United States for human consumption. Food safety experts worry about the quality of chicken processed in a country notorious for avian influenza and food-borne illnesses. And they predict that China will eventually seek to broaden the export rules to allow chickens born and raised in China. “Economically, it doesn’t make much sense,” said Tom Super, spokesman for the National Chicken Council, in a recent interview with the Houston Chronicle. “Think about it: A Chinese company would have to purchase frozen chicken in the U.S., pay to ship it 7,000 miles, unload it, transport it to a processing plant, unpack it, cut it up, process/cook it, freeze it, repack it, transport it back to a port, then ship it another 7,000 miles. I don’t know how anyone could make a profit doing that.” Bureau of Labor Statistics data estimates that American poultry processors are paid roughly $11 per hour on average. In China, reports have circulated that the country’s chicken workers can earn significantly less—$1 to 2 per hour—which casts doubt on Super’s economic feasibility assessment. This process is already being used for U.S. seafood. According to the Seattle Times, domestically caught Pacific salmon and Dungeness crab are currently being processed in China and shipped back to the U.S., all because of significant cost savings: …fish processors in the Northwest, including Seattle-based Trident Seafoods, are sending part of their catch of Alaskan salmon or Dungeness crab to China to be filleted or de-shelled before returning to U.S. tables. “There are 36 pin bones in a salmon and the best way to remove them is by hand,” says Charles Bundrant, founder of Trident, which ships about 30 million pounds of its 1.2 billion-pound annual harvest to China for processing. “Something that would cost us $1 per pound labor here, they get it done for 20 cents in China.” China has an infamous reputation as one of the world’s worst food safety offenders. Earlier this year, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a report on a Chinese chicken jerky manufacturer that created dog treats tied to more than 500 dogs’ deaths. Food Safety News aims to spread awareness of the pending USDA agreement and stop Chinese-processed chicken from ever reaching supermarkets or school lunchrooms. via Living Traditionally Sort by Oldest Add a comment... Karen Kohne · Concordia, Missouri And I hope none of this is true and I hope our government is smarter than all of this!! Like · Reply · 20 · May 13, 2014 6:41am Deanna Lynne Maddocks-Steinwand · Raw Food Chef and Raw Nutrition Instructor at Dspurecleanlife Its all about the mighty $$ nothing to do with a "smart government" (oxymoron there). Time is coming to quit bitching about prices at a local farmers market and buy local Or Pay the consequences in our health not so far down the road. Like · Reply · 114 · May 13, 2014 11:54pm Paul Berger · Brown Institute Well Karen it is true and our govt.isnt smarter than this. Like · Reply · 61 · Feb 5, 2016 3:20am Georgia Illiopoulou Deanna Lynne Maddocks-Steinwand THAT IS THE RIGHT ATTITUDE!!!! BOYCOTT ALL CHICKEN/FISH/MEAT NOT PRODUCED AND PROCESSED IN THE US, UNTIL IT BECOMES A REQUIREMENT TO DISCLOSE WHERE THE PROCESSING TAKES PLACE. Like · Reply · 77 · Feb 7, 2016 12:42am Show 10 more replies in this thread Sarav Human · Slave for a dog named Murphy at Procastination Land Go Vegetarian.. All the animal products are laced with chemicals that kill you.. yeah right.. the plant products I am counting on are laced with pesticides, genetically altered etc etc etc.. Air is full of pollutants, water is contaminated, soil is saturated with chemicals.. what is left ? What is clean? Nothing.. let us wait till we sprout a extra limb or tail or a third eye or something interesting.. Profit is all matters and not safety.. Like · Reply · 72 · May 14, 2014 5:09am · Edited Scott Smith Clearly, you've never had BBQ ribs. Like · Reply · 32 · Feb 7, 2016 1:03pm Kelli Shrugs Yeah that way you only have to deal with GMO, wake up. Like · Reply · 12 · Feb 8, 2016 7:31am Russ Livermore · Lamar University I shop in Gods grocery store,deer,fish,hog,duck. Like · Reply · 33 · Feb 8, 2016 11:51pm Show 10 more replies in this thread Charlene Collins · UC Davis Nations need to be self-sustaining. It makes absolutely no sense to send live animals overseas to be killed, tortured for food. I want to know why these corporations are using our markets to fake their profits. Yeah, you could ship a boat many times around the world, expense your business at a loss on your balance sheet, get the government to cover your losses. Your sense of business is pathetic and they need to be audited. Livestock should not be subjected to oversea shipping at all! Like · Reply · 30 · May 14, 2014 7:37am Jon Fogel · St. Louis That's not what is happening, nor is it what is said in the article. The animals are killed domestically before being shipped. Like · Reply · 18 · Feb 5, 2016 5:19am Janice Jakeman · Munfordville, Kentucky Jon Fogel And that begs the question: How long between the time the animal is killed and the time at which it is processed? This could lead to all kinds of organisms growing ...oh, good grief. This could be a terrible nightmare! No, I'm going to say it WILL BE a nightmare at some point in time! I'm going to start raising my own chickens again even if I am an "elderly" lady! Besides that, I'm SICK of all the blood around the bones of commercially processed meats! Like · Reply · 22 · Feb 7, 2016 3:19pm Elizabeth Gyllenhaal · Works at Retired Jon Fogel Oh, great -- more time to spoil and get tainted on the slowboat to China! Like · Reply · 16 · Feb 12, 2016 12:50pm Show 9 more replies in this thread Steve Saylor · Works at The Zeitgeist Movement Global This makes absolutely no sense in the real world. But in our system of market capitalism, where "cost efficiency" is the bottom line, it makes perfect sense. Perfectly stupid, illogical, inefficient, ignorant sense. What a sick, decrepit, diseased system ... needs to be put to sleep, buried six feet under, relegated to the history books. It's over! Let it go. Like · Reply · 48 · May 14, 2014 8:35am Jake Chambers · Fridley Senior High School Thats not gonna happen, this the world america wants. There are so many people we all know who aren't gonna read this or care. This is what happens when everyone is a dumb sheep and they don't pay attention or give a shit about anything. Like · Reply · 47 · Oct 4, 2014 4:00am Peter de Leeuw · Cowichan Secondary School Jake Chambers : China Owns America! That's really all it is, and if the Americans did everything and made everything themselves as others have posted, the whole country would implode. Like · Reply · 10 · Oct 5, 2014 4:59am Mari Milanoski Jake Chambers Oh yes they do care about professional sports that are tax exempt non-profits, the latest celebrity gossip and fashion. They care about any propaganda they see on the tube coming to them with overpriced subscriptions. You are absolutely right they will blindly eat this chicken and won't take any action until they suffer the consequences of contaminated chicken. Like · Reply · 30 · Mar 11, 2015 3:07am Show 2 more replies in this thread Okbit Culata hell no!!!!!!! pls no!! Like · Reply · 7 · May 14, 2014 11:24pm Tom Bogaert · South Elgin, Illinois Fake story, Like · Reply · Aug 29, 2016 7:09pm Vinnie Shrader · Deep Creek Jr. Sr. High Well, yet another food I'm giving up. Like · Reply · 4 · May 30, 2014 3:40am Palmetto Prepper This is crazy ..... Like · Reply · Jun 7, 2014 12:51am Tina Brooke · Carrollton, Missouri This just pisses me off. KEEP THE JOBS IN THE USA! Greed is a terrible thing. Let our country prosper from the jobs and not only the Power Heads that vacation and play Golf everyday. Like · Reply · 13 · Jun 7, 2014 4:05am Carol 'Barbera' Rachal · Works at Athens State University Boycott companies that send chickens to China for processing. We need to get people to sign petitions to stop this; this is not what Americans want. I am tired of corporate America putting the almighty dollar above the health and welfare of Americans. This is not a good idea for so many reasons; why are we allowing it to happen? Don't buy another chicken or chicken product. Money talks! Like · Reply · 19 · Jun 26, 2014 9:36am Nancy Or USDA, YOU ARE TOTAL IDIOTS. I HOPE YOU'RE EATING CHICKEN FROM CHINA. Like · Reply · 12 · Sep 19, 2014 5:11am Sara Ross · Los Angeles, California Well, like so many of agencies that are supposed to work for us, obviously they have been bought out/compromised by the entities they are supposed to monitor. Like · Reply · 12 · Oct 4, 2014 12:04am Guillermo Gonzalez · Works at Tripp Lite Sara, the reason they are bought it is because the corporate employees see it as a springboard. They join the gvmnt, do favors due their former bosses, and when they get out, they have even better jobs waiting for them..... The revolving door needs to stop! Like · Reply · 12 · Oct 4, 2014 1:30am Sara Ross · Los Angeles, California Guillermo Gonzalez - Ah yes, the good ol' revolving door. We can see this in private security companies, the financial sector, big ag, (Monsanto), and on and on. Like · Reply · 4 · Oct 4, 2014 4:03am Erin Thomas · Poet at Work Writing Poetry How does this even make the slightest bit of sense? Like · Reply · 4 · Oct 2, 2014 3:31am Sara Ross · Los Angeles, California It makes sense to the money grubbing traitors we have running things these days. Like · Reply · 4 · Oct 4, 2014 2:58am Marlene Pfaff · University of Michigan How pathetic. We fight for the American workers to make a "living wage" and then send our products to China because it is cheaper to get it processed because they are not paid enough to live either. How inhumane is that?? Like · Reply · 6 · Oct 3, 2014 9:47pm Sean O'Brien We should not be importing anything from China food clothing materials nothing! look at the labor costs of course its cheaper but no labor laws no safety. Boycott anything from other countries. Like · Reply · 23 · Oct 3, 2014 10:33pm Sara Ross · Los Angeles, California Sean, Most of us Americans, regardless of party affiliation agree with you. I am old enough to remember when we had excellent quality products made here in the U.S.A., not the shoddy fall apart ones we get from overseas, and usually have no other option to buy. Like · Reply · 20 · Oct 4, 2014 12:07am John Treadwell · ITT Technical Institute Plus they'll try to kill us again, like with the lead paint. Like · Reply · 9 · Oct 4, 2014 6:36am Sue Mara And the toothpaste. Like · Reply · 3 · Oct 4, 2014 2:36pm Show 4 more replies in this thread Kimberly True · Redding, California Notice how world trade goes directly against reducing carbon emissions to slow global warming? Greed trumps a sustainable environment and capitalism (eg greed) is driving that process....with the help of politicians bought by the corporations. Time to wake up people and reclaim your rights to a representative government, to the land that belongs to all of us and to local healthy supplies of food and water!! Read Naomi Kleins new book and then get off your ass and help fight this distortion of 'economics and free trade' - it's a hoax to pad their pockets and nothing more! Like · Reply · 10 · Oct 3, 2014 11:58pm Jason Dufford USDA are in the pockets of massive corporations. These people care NOTHING for you or your children. What we need now is a change of consciousness. Like · Reply · 10 · Oct 4, 2014 12:18am Francisco Patino · Owner at Bellaggio Real Estate Group It is a health hazard not to mention a waste of fuel to send food 7000 miles away for processing - no matter the savings the idea is loony. Like · Reply · 5 · Oct 4, 2014 1:07am Leonard Enrique · San Diego, California Then there is justification for the "Freight Charge" $$ on the sticker price..... Wings @ $12.50 a pound!!? Hong Kong is gloating. Like · Reply · Oct 4, 2014 1:41am Christina Marie China can't even be trusted to handle dog food!!! No way do I want them messing with my meat!!! Ugh this country smh Like · Reply · 3 · Oct 4, 2014 3:30am Freek Kouwe It is disturbing to notice how many folks are mainly concerned about themselves (health hazards, jobs, money flowing into pockets) and how few are resonating to what's presented in the article in the first place: yet another degradation of the way we think we can act against the life surrounding us. Explain to me why pertinent abuse is no longer recognized as such, as sons as making a profit comes along? Meat has been sad food as long as I can recall. Apparently we haven't seen the very worst yet. Like · Reply · 3 · Oct 4, 2014 4:49am Clyde Mcwhorter · Statgehand Local # 720 Ironworker 416 at Las Vegaslast20+ You have to be shitting us! How is this crap happening. Without the public knowledge? Oh yes the free press is owned by 7 corporations. We have to vote for change in November. Like · Reply · 4 · Oct 4, 2014 3:22pm Trina Norton Support your local farms both meat and vegetable, quit shopping and supporting Walmart as well. Stop buying Apple products and so many other products mass produced in China as well. It's a start, I did. Like · Reply · 5 · Oct 4, 2014 6:15pm Dave Davis · Gardner Webb College We are in the midst of raising the hourly wage in America. That makes it more difficult to fight foreign wage labor. In fact, a raise in the minimum wage here in the US would make it impossible to compete with Chinese labor. --- The fact is - we cannot compete with Chinese labor. - because Chinese labor is SLAVE LABOR! We live in a democracy. China does not. The conditions under which the Chinese process food is borne out in the recent dog food fiasco. We all know about that. The question is - do we want those same faulty safeguards protecting the food that we eat? If we can't grow, process, and eat "chicken" in our own country - without the help of China - we are fucked! This is the last straw. FUCK CHINA! Like · Reply · 2 · Oct 5, 2014 6:28am Della Woods · Driver at Della woods racing Stacked like cord wood...Most of these chickens will die then we'll get them back...Served on our plate... Like · Reply · Oct 6, 2014 5:17am Richard Mangano · Zonguldak Are they freakin nuts? China has been trying to poison us with thier products already plus, how can it be econically feasible to do this, after thier butchered they need to be kept cold or frozen.....Have you ever seen how the chinese hang thier chickens and ducks on a closeline? Like · Reply · 3 · Oct 9, 2014 1:36am Lisa-Tom Ryan · Walla Walla, Washington We just keep shipping our jobs overseas... Like · Reply · Oct 21, 2014 5:50am Lori Farrar why oh why does our government constantly have to import from China after all the issues concerning there products and our safety, rebuild America, and let our own country thrive Like · Reply · 3 · Oct 23, 2014 4:23am Mari Milanoski Lori Farrar, and the military pivot to Asia where the U. S. military finds it necessary to contaminate the UNESCO site the Olympic National Park, WA the only coniferous rainforest in the world for hazardous electromagnetic warfare training threatening endangered species with earsplitting NOISE. Is China going to bomb our local Wal*Mart? Like · Reply · 1 · Mar 11, 2015 3:15am Rick Wingate · Classes from USC Columbia GREED! The lust for the Almighty Dollar will be Man's destruction. As Larry, Daryl and Daryl would say, "Anything for a Buck". Like · Reply · 3 · Mar 9, 2015 10:53pm John Barnett · Chief Executive Officer at Retired i like to watch Shark Tank. One thing that disgusts me about the show, is that week after week, when some entrepenour brings on a product they are manufacturing in America, the sharks all go on about how it needs to be made in China. That is their first idea in order to make more profit. And that is how American business thinks today. Not what is good for consumers, environment, economy, or the long term business outlook, it what is best for their pocketbook.....NOW! Like · Reply · 23 · Mar 10, 2015 9:59pm Francisco Patino · Owner at Bellaggio Real Estate Group Well we can thank Saint Reagan for this - he singlehandedly switched our traditional American Values of fair play, opportunity, community for "profits trump all" and he also encouraged luxury consumption as a demonstration and proof of success. We have a long way to go before we recover from Reagan's alzheimer's puppetry act - though we might never know who exactly was pulling the strings behind the most corrupt administration in American History. Like · Reply · 9 · Mar 11, 2015 5:42am Robin Ferrer · Flagstaff, Arizona There have been four democrat administrations since Reagan was president, with unprecedented corruption. Can you just focus on what THIS president does?? At what point does he have to take responsibility for his actions? He's the one with the phone and the pen who is pushing this. Try growing up, francisco. You'll be better for it. Like · Reply · 7 · Jul 11, 2015 2:01am Louis Slattery · Teacher/Dean at Elementary School Teacher Robin Ferrer it ws he GOP who voted agsinst products having country of origin printed on them. Pres. Obsma snd the dems were in favor of that regulation. But the GOP us agsinst sll regulation and yes it stsrted with Resgon Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 8:07pm Vanessa Coleman · Queen of Java at Coffee http://www.newsweek.com/.../curious-case-chinese-chicken... Like · Reply · Jul 10, 2015 7:52pm Brenda Lesa Just wondering how long that would last if everyone boycotted it? Like · Reply · 2 · Jul 10, 2015 11:31pm Louis Slattery · Teacher/Dean at Elementary School Teacher The GOP made it hard to know which products to boycott by voting fown regulation for products yo print country of origin on food Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 8:10pm Donna Kelly I did not see the name of the 4 companies that are sending their chicken over to China. Does anyone know who they are? I will not buy from that company. Like · Reply · 4 · Jul 11, 2015 2:44am William Lechien · Arsenal Technical High School That will not always work. I used to work at a chicken processing plant where I live, we packaged chicken using customer supplied bags with their brand on them. BTW we were one of the "big 4" mentioned above by Joey DF. Like · Reply · 1 · Jul 11, 2015 12:37pm Louis Slattery · Teacher/Dean at Elementary School Teacher The GOP made it hard to know which products to boycott by voting fown regulation for products yo print country of origin on food Like · Reply · 1 · Aug 23, 2016 8:10pm Donna Kelly Louis Slattery and William Lechien, I really hope this is just about greed and not something more sinister. Like · Reply · Aug 26, 2016 3:18am Sterling R. Fritz · Whitehall High School All this hype about this but nowhere do you list the names of these companies Apparantly you know their names or you wouldn't have claimed there were four companies. If you want to write these articles, write something that's useful to us readers. Like · Reply · 11 · Jul 11, 2015 4:07am Bob Rendleman One is Mcdonald's. People are finding plastic and other sordid "things" in their chicken mcnuggets. But who knows what is going into the chicken while it's being processed in China. Like · Reply · 1 · Jul 12, 2015 2:16pm Joey DF · Equities Trader at Stockmarket Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride, Sanderson Farms and Perdue Farms...these are the firms! Like · Reply · 3 · Jul 11, 2015 7:35am Cindy Hutchison Crisp The article says those are the four largest chicken producers in the US and only Tyson campaigned for approval. The article says four Chinese chicken processors not American. Like · Reply · Jul 11, 2015 10:45am Bob Crowe · Pearl river,ny if people would stop being so worried about paying a "LOW" price and buy quality products maybe this kinda of nonsense would not happen so often. We have all been "walmartized" into thinking "dont worry about where it came from ,just dont pay alot for it. the whole thing is crazy. If it does happen just dont buy chicken. And just a side note, if you have the time to write stuff on fb take some time and write to your senators and congressmen. better yet VOTE THEM OUT. Like · Reply · 9 · Jul 11, 2015 10:42am Marla Grossman · Organist at First Baptist Church The article said that they would not be showing WHERE or WHO the chicken was from so how can we check in stores? Very stupid to send chicken overseas & back. Everyone should want to have SAFE FOOD for their families. Doesn't make any sense at all & is very UNSAFE in my opinion. Like · Reply · Jul 14, 2015 2:34am Carol Hankwitz Marla Grossman Buy ORGANIC Like · Reply · Sep 14, 2015 10:27am Margot White · Waldschule Grundschule Neureut well ther are 56 comments. lets start with us, and boy cut getting chicken anywere. i will never eat chicken again, from any store. i get my'n now directly from a small farmer.just thinking about it, makes me wana barffffffff greedy barsters Like · Reply · 6 · Jul 11, 2015 8:20pm Marvin Koch · Nashville, Tennessee Have we gone insane? You're sending the most disease-prone meat in the world (Consumer Reports tested hundreds of sample of chickens from major supermarkets across America and found that 97% were diseased) and sending it to CHINA, which is famous for making the most innocent products dangerous to human health (like sheet-rock that exuded poisonous gasses and baby-formula that was tainted with chemicals, among other things) and expect us to EAT the stuff? Are we totally crazy? Like · Reply · 10 · Jul 12, 2015 10:52am Foh Sobrique just another reason to know your farmer. \between this and monsanto running the FDA via michael taylor. the USDA cannot be trusted with our food. ever. Like · Reply · 12 · Sep 13, 2015 10:29pm Gerrie Arsenault Warren · Mexico High School wish the article had posted the companies involved in this.. we could refuse to buy their product..... Like · Reply · 5 · Sep 14, 2015 12:23am Jane Guerard Webb · Caretaker and Scullery Maid at Pine Island Plantation I want to know the stupid companies doing this. I would NEVER buy from them. With China's record of complete disregard for food safety PLUS taking jobs away from Americans in exchange for slave labor is absolutely insane. Like · Reply · 4 · Sep 14, 2015 12:50am Joe Kleinsmith · Columbia University I want to see labels that say, "Grown in USA, Processed in China" and "Grown and Processed in USA.. NOW is the time to begin asking store butchers if the chicken or fished was processed in China. Like · Reply · 4 · Sep 14, 2015 2:21am · Edited Jeremiah Williams Look at the seafood labels at walmart. They will say "Caught in Alaska, Made in China" Like · Reply · 3 · Sep 14, 2015 7:09am Louis Slattery · Teacher/Dean at Elementary School Teacher The GOP made it hard to know which products to boycott by voting fown regulation for products yo print country of origin on food Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 8:13pm Loretta Filice · Retired RN at O'Conner Hospital How do we fine out companies doing this and the stupid people in goverment approving of this. Like · Reply · Sep 14, 2015 3:40am Kay Mitchell · The Old School Of Hard Knocks Oh he'll no, looks like gonna have to give up chicken now. This country is going to he'll in a hand basket! Like · Reply · 4 · Sep 14, 2015 8:54am Orett Spencer · Works at Sweet Ovations Don't blame the companies they are in it for profit but it is the sole duty of the US government to its citizens by preventing this but instead they are allowing it so it's up to us consumers to boycott process chicken from China. . Like · Reply · 1 · Sep 14, 2015 2:17pm Alan Anderson · Works at None of Facebook's business Excuse me, Orett Spencer, why shouldn't the companies that sell chickens be blamed? Who in hell do you think pressured the US government to allow this to happen? Give me a break. Like · Reply · 1 · Sep 16, 2015 3:48am Sussie Gray Well no more chicken for us. Like · Reply · Sep 14, 2015 8:05pm Colleen Barnett-stover · Templeton, California ridiculous.... Like · Reply · Sep 14, 2015 8:07pm Pat Chuchian When are we gonna go demand the USDA and FDA be done away with????? We're paying a fortune for them to kill us........ Like · Reply · 5 · Sep 14, 2015 8:47pm Louis Slattery · Teacher/Dean at Elementary School Teacher Whst a silly idea! How about getting rid of the anti regulation GOP ..it was them who voted againsr the requirement to label country of origin tying the hands of the USDA Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 8:17pm Raymond Culver The processors that DON'T ship out their chicken could capture the market simply by labeling theirs "Processed in the USA", but that probably will be outlawed because giving us information about our food is bad. Like · Reply · 12 · Sep 14, 2015 8:55pm Louise Johnson · Works at Self-Employed The end of eating store bought chicken...not that I have for years...raise and process my own. Like · Reply · Sep 14, 2015 10:25pm Aaron Dykstra shop local... Like · Reply · 2 · Sep 14, 2015 10:34pm Teresa Pickard Tennant So I googled it and this is what I found The USDA approved the four Chinese plants to process chickens for the U.S. market, of the country’s four major chicken companies—Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride, Sanderson Farms and Perdue Farms— Like · Reply · 10 · Sep 14, 2015 11:07pm Paige Murphy-Young · University of Oregon Good information: we know which brands NOT to buy. Like · Reply · 6 · Sep 15, 2015 1:44am Florence Robinson · Newaygo, Michigan Paige Murphy-Young Yes Like · Reply · Sep 15, 2015 4:27am Cheryl Doyle · Medical Laboratory Technician at Miles Memorial Hospital This is RIDICULOUS! All the records processors have to keep, the surprise inspections, courses and certifications we have to spend time on and pay for, not to mention having to label each product with its country of origin, so we always had to use the same dealer.... But big business can outsource large quantities and reimport our "fresh" food for sale in U.S. Supermarkets with no regulations? Guess I'm eating only locally grown foods from here on! rant, rant, rant, GRRRR! Like · Reply · 3 · Sep 14, 2015 11:43pm Cheryl Doyle · Medical Laboratory Technician at Miles Memorial Hospital And by the way, these are the same regulations that forced us, a small fish processing business, OUT of business! Like · Reply · 1 · Sep 14, 2015 11:46pm Florence Robinson · Newaygo, Michigan No more chicken or seafood or any thing else from over seas for me. We have enough deseases here, we don't need more. Like · Reply · Sep 15, 2015 4:19am Khoi Nguyen · Austin, Texas I'm going to have to raise my own chickens... Like · Reply · 3 · Sep 15, 2015 10:21am Michele Duffy Martin · Thomas Worthington High School THAT"S IT! NO MORE Tyson, Pilgrim’s Pride, Sanderson Farms and Perdue Farms FOR ME. THEY ARE DEAD IN MY EYES............... Like · Reply · Sep 16, 2015 1:46am Bob W. Smith · New and exciting challenge! at In transition How about Smithfield? They are owned by a Chinese company!! Like · Reply · Oct 8, 2015 5:04pm Vicki Filomeo · RN BSN (Registered Nurse Bachelor of Science in Nursing) at St. Helena Center for Behavioral Health This makes no sense. Food that has been frozen and then thawed, should not be frozen again. Like · Reply · 1 · Sep 16, 2015 7:35am Doug Lynn · Owner at Retired Another HOAX Like · Reply · Sep 26, 2015 7:46pm Brenda Hackett · Owner/Photographer at Brenda Hackett Photography Well I guess then if there is a outbreak of food poisioning or deaths because of this kind of stupidity, I guess we sue the hell out of the USDA. Like · Reply · Oct 9, 2015 9:41am Mike Kelso · Encinitas, California How do we know they won't switch our polluted chickens for something ten times worse. Like · Reply · 1 · Oct 9, 2015 7:12pm Helen Keeley Needed US jobs Like · Reply · Oct 9, 2015 9:29pm Jeff Clymer · Gas City, Indiana How can you ship things out of country then ship them back an sell them? doesn't seem cost of effective! Like · Reply · 2 · Nov 3, 2015 8:43am Molly McCawley · Stocker at Walmart theyre not doing it cuz it NEEDS to be done, USA could very well do it, but did anyone think that it's a form of population control? if china can make dog shit taste like hamburget then theyre up to no good. theyre most likely going to be contaminating the chicken with infectious diseases to load us up on. i heard the plague is on it's way to the US too??? Like · Reply · 1 · Nov 3, 2015 2:26pm Shelby Mount Almost 45 million chickens and turkeys have died from the disease...what about when they had the bird flu over there ..i wouldn't eat the chicken..how many people would be sick and die Like · Reply · Nov 3, 2015 10:48pm Shelby Mount http://www.ibtimes.com/bird-flu-outbreak-why-farmers-are... Like · Reply · Nov 3, 2015 10:49pm Tony Elizondo · Sacramento, California Just don't eat processed chicken. Problem solved. Like · Reply · 4 · Nov 4, 2015 1:27am Margie DiGiovanni Has anyone considered the Chinese might keep OUR chickens and replace them with possibly diseased ones from their country? Like · Reply · 1 · Nov 4, 2015 2:14am Peter Garnham · Amagansett, New York The USDA is now, sadly, solely a shill for Big Ag and Big Pharma. The leadership is corrupt, which is a real tragedy for the hundreds of good people who work there. Like the FDA and the EPA, they are dominated by Congress' corrupt dependence on huge donations from industry. They are NOT regulatory agencies, and the harm they have done and continue to do to the nation's health -- people, the environment, and animal health -- is a national disaster. Like · Reply · 4 · Nov 4, 2015 2:43am James Forbes · Works at Pine Castle Center For The Developmentally Disabled Wonder how many people got paid to look the other way on this one? Like · Reply · 1 · Nov 4, 2015 6:43am Vee Broman · Owner at Self Employed - VeeSwan Studios Another good reason to fight FOR proper food labeling. This makes me sick just thinking about it. Like · Reply · Nov 4, 2015 6:45am Val Madrien Smith · Simon Fraser University Simply become a vegetarian and give more kindness to a living creature who already lives an intolerable short life. Like · Reply · 1 · Nov 4, 2015 11:34pm Val Madrien Smith · Simon Fraser University http://www.msn.com/.../finally-the-fda-admits.../ar-AA8cWca Like · Reply · Nov 4, 2015 11:36pm Mark Spinello · Lilydale Technical School Fucking madness... Like · Reply · Nov 5, 2015 7:27am Kristy Mitchell · Works at AG Valley Foods So much for supporting your own economy. US citizens cannot afford to live in America ,but lets all send the work to china mhmm great idea. Like · Reply · Feb 4, 2016 9:19pm Kathryn Evans It's called depopulation...or population control. Like · Reply · Feb 5, 2016 12:57am Kevin Mansfield well , if there is know labeling how the hell are we suposed to know where it came from ? Like · Reply · Feb 5, 2016 1:47am Elaine Magalhaes Pinto Earley · Instituto Metodista Bennett I am going to buy chicken anymore. Like · Reply · Feb 5, 2016 2:16am Tracy Kuong Sam I don't trust China processing our chickens. They might put chemicals in it. Like · Reply · Feb 5, 2016 6:25am Patricia Dareneau · Works at Retired School Social Worker Smithfield Pork Like · Reply · Feb 5, 2016 7:40am Joy Truby · Senior Loan Officer at Millennium Financial Group, Inc Well, the local farmers should be happy because many will probably turn to local farmers for their chickens. I guess we need to elect people who will bring the labor back to the US or bring back the proper labeling. Like · Reply · Feb 5, 2016 9:53am Deb Laabs Wilde I can't imagine anyone wanting to eat chicken anymore! Like · Reply · Feb 5, 2016 10:05am Chris Zulliger · Business Developement at BeMatrix If Americans really cared about this kind of action they'd stop eating cheap ass chicken instead of bawling on social media about inept government. Free markets run on consumption. Quite consuming and you won't have to cry! Like · Reply · Feb 5, 2016 11:00am Stacie J. Holtz White · Certified Black Belt Instructor, TaeKwonDo/ Martial Arts Kickboxing Instructor at White Tiger Martial Arts Academy Kickboxing This article Is FALSE. Do your Research. SNOOPS has this article listed as a floating rumor since 2013. The USDA and companies that produce and process the chickens explained how costly this process would be and other health risk hazard concerns. They stated that this process will not happen. Like · Reply · Feb 5, 2016 1:43pm Laurie Burnette · Works at Prominent Properties Sotheby's International Realty buy from local farm Like · Reply · Feb 5, 2016 10:24pm Loretta Pickin · East Rochester High School Does anyone know which companies engage in this practice?? We should boycott them so they lose their profits...I know Tyson does it..don't buy their poultry any more...and Smithfield, Ekrich for pork as well... Like · Reply · Feb 6, 2016 2:18am Alyson Taylor Linville · Works at The Official Loudoun County Public Schools This has already been happening...there were many reports about it last year. Like · Reply · Feb 6, 2016 8:56am Georgia Illiopoulou PEOPLE THIS IS BAD. BUT LET US NOT FORGET HOW WE GOT HERE. IT IS US THE CONSUMER WHO HAS MADE CHINA WHAT IT IS TODAY. IT IS THE CONSUMER THAT HAS ALLOWED THE CORPORATIONS TO DRAW THE CONCLUSION THAT THE BOTTOM LINE IS HOW MUCH IT COSTS. THERE WAS A TIME IN MY LIFE THAT I WOULD NOT BUY ANYTHING IF IT SAID MADE IN CHINA, BUT EVENTUALLY I GAVE IN AS MOST EVERYTHING WAS MADE THERE. FOR US TO SAVE A DOLLAR, WE PAY FOR IT IT MANY WAYS. BUY AMERICAN! BUY AMERICAN! BUY AMERICAN! THE EXTRA MONEY YOU SPEND WILL BENEFIT YOU IN THE LONG RUN! Like · Reply · Feb 7, 2016 12:47am Leslie Black Tribolet · Owner-operator at Scar Center Fort Worth Think Trump would allow this? Ahhhhh, I would say no. Like · Reply · Feb 7, 2016 10:42pm Pesach Kirschner · Driver at Lyft Driver News That is why you should eat KOSHER because it has standards way above any agency federally or in the world. G-d of ISRAEL order this method of slaughter and handling Like · Reply · Feb 9, 2016 4:49pm Madeleine Jeanne Kopp · California State University, Long Beach http://www.snopes.com/china-chicken-reshipped/ Like · Reply · Feb 11, 2016 3:25am Madeleine Jeanne Kopp · California State University, Long Beach tina villasenor downey Like · Reply · Feb 11, 2016 3:26am Marie Hemmingway · Hinds CC Rankin Campus Why not build processing plants her in the US. Bring jobs to the unemployed. And good safe food to our tables. God Help Us. Like · Reply · Feb 11, 2016 7:00am Mary Reese · BTHS CLASSOF 55 Chicken from China? No thanks you. There health inspection is not up to par. Like · Reply · Feb 12, 2016 9:47am Elizabeth Gyllenhaal · Works at Retired I think the operative word is "processed". There is no reason to ship chickens sold whole or cut up anywhere but grocery stores. I think it's for processed chicken sold in other, quick meal varieties -- breaded patties, chicken nuggets, etc. I'm not positive, but it seems logical. What doesn't seem logical is how much can they actually save, what with transportation oil, etc.? Like · Reply · Feb 12, 2016 12:48pm Relada L. Miller · Works at CDC Well, this does it for me. No more chicken. For all we know, it's been going on for a while. The consumer is always last to know. Like · Reply · Feb 12, 2016 10:10pm Christa Wallenborn Hibler Who are the US companies that send the chicken to China ?? Like · Reply · Feb 13, 2016 8:51am Bill Egelund · Works at Retired Just keep voting Republican people. They pass the laws to keep their campaign donors rolling in money. Like · Reply · Feb 14, 2016 3:23am Jim Henry The Congress wrote the laws on labeling. I wonder how much silver is crossing their palms concerning this unhealthy bullshit. Like · Reply · Feb 14, 2016 9:50am Jim Henry A bunch I would imagine. Like · Reply · Feb 14, 2016 9:51am HarryandDonna Perkins · Detroit, Michigan just keep taking american jobs ya morons Like · Reply · Feb 15, 2016 3:36am Andre Nanton · Former Corrections at Retired It is apparent that this country has lost its mind. Sending chicken abroad is the same as sending jobs. Search to see which senators and congress person voted yes, and the vote that person out of office Like · Reply · Feb 16, 2016 8:06am Jennifer Bierman- Sommerfeldt And these INCOMPETENT, and UNCARING MORONS approving this process-should be the very first ones MADE to EAT and sample that chicken/cat/or dog meat(or wth it is) ON A REGULAR BASIS-and prove to Americans that it's safe for our consumption. Like · Reply · Feb 18, 2016 12:38am Bill Kratzer · Harlingen, Texas so without labels, how do we know which is which ? Like · Reply · Feb 18, 2016 9:53pm Terrie Lynn Taylor · Novi, Michigan Genocide on purpose Like · Reply · Feb 18, 2016 11:02pm Ken Sosinsky · Henrico, Virginia does anyone know the companies involved . . . ? Like · Reply · Feb 19, 2016 6:17am Joann Panka Swanson Hope the members of the USDA that approved this, are the first to eat the produce coming over here from China. Handy for the Chinese to be able to slowly poison Americans with chemicals that can be added to all this food!! Like · Reply · Feb 20, 2016 5:56am Joann Panka Swanson Now that I wrote the above I see that this story is from May 12, 2014!!! A lot of good my comments are now!! Like · Reply · Feb 20, 2016 6:00am Jitka Valkova · San Francisco, California Be vegan or suffer the consequences Like · Reply · Feb 20, 2016 5:57am Sharon Adelhardt Dalton The article should state which companies are doing this so that those of us who are scared can avoid them. Like · Reply · Feb 21, 2016 1:23am Makeda McGrone · Ivy Tech Karen Kohne ...Believe it..I went shopping ...read krogers fresh and frozen chikens...can goods fruits check it out ...go in the store and shop...but read every letter....china on every lable....i left with more sweets than food...2 meats....it will say usa...then you see china hong kong prc...still code for china..... Like · Reply · Feb 21, 2016 10:10am Andy Gussie Are you frigging kidding me! Is this for real? I am about to start raising and growing everything I eat. Like · Reply · Feb 22, 2016 12:08am Erich N Esperanza Metz we need trump Like · Reply · Feb 22, 2016 8:58am Sam Giordano · Wenatchee Valley College The end is near Like · Reply · Feb 22, 2016 8:46pm Christopher Ross · Retail Jewelers at Clace Jewelry send chicken and receive dog, rat, cat, any other kind of foul animal in return. Like · Reply · Feb 22, 2016 10:46pm Dana Smith-Mansell · Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania I would like them to identify the companies. Not a huge meat eater but I surely would not purchase from any company that ships over there. Lost TWO pets to "china's processing", will not support them in any way if I am aware they are doing this. Like · Reply · Feb 24, 2016 8:19pm Cathy Fodge hi karen i dont think our government cares about anything except money in their pockets and they make the money they dont have to buy what they say is safe but isnt Like · Reply · Feb 25, 2016 9:12am Rick Teng They make practically everything and every now and there are recalls, not unusual for any big business. If you look at the ratio of working products to non-working products, the non-working products are minimal. Without their cheap products, many people will be broke. We would never be able to save money to go on vacations, dine out, etc. I am no fan of the Chinese government, but I bet all the China bashing (besides their horrible track record on human rights) is orchestrated by corporations to divert our attention. I agree that China's working regulation is terrible, but I don't hear about o...See More Like · Reply · Mar 15, 2016 1:48am Charli Atkinson · Davis College Insanity. We have to refuse to purchase chicken from suppliers who export/import American chickens to China for processing. You will pay more, but honestly folks....do we want this? I refust to buy dog food sourced in China and many other parts of the world. I love my dog. And I love my family. This stops here. Not acceptable. Write to your congressman and all of your representatives now. Like · Reply · Mar 15, 2016 1:54am Joe Alexander · Colchester, Vermont Are you fucking serious?! So, I read " ship it to China frozen, process it, freeze it again and ship it back" That sounds like salmonella and all kinds of other shit! Let's freeze, these and refreeze meat. And by the way, if you've ever seen the cleanliness of a Chinese restaurants kitchen here in the U.S. You would know that this is a stupid idea! Like · Reply · Mar 15, 2016 2:44am Liza Noriega No More Chicken for ME!!! Like · Reply · Mar 15, 2016 5:34am Bob Maschi · Portland, Oregon They are undoing all the worker safety, envoronmental codes and consumer protection laws eacted for good reason over the last 100 years. It will get worse. We must end capitalism or vanish. Like · Reply · Mar 16, 2016 12:47am David Ray · Hot Springs, Arkansas End capitalism? End economic freedom? Yeah, you're a genius. You solve this problem with sensible economic policy. Do you not understand that capitalism is a necessary precursor to freedom? How complicated is that? If you take away economic freedom, there is no freedom. What Bernie Sanders understands about economics and freedom will fit on the point of a pin. You need to grow up and recognize that we are participating in a global economy now, where you compete or you die. You don't pay McDonalds order takers $15/hour. Sheesh. Like · Reply · Mar 17, 2016 1:02pm Bob Maschi · Portland, Oregon David Ray Freedom? Like, freedom to starve? Freedom to go bankrupt from hospital bills? Freedom to eat dog food when you're too old to work? Freedom for homeless to freeze in the cold? All because rich people who inherited their wealth which was intially stolen are greedy? Pal, you need a dictionary. Like · Reply · Mar 17, 2016 11:45pm Kathy Kelly Tyson is one of them. Like · Reply · Mar 16, 2016 1:24am David Ray · Hot Springs, Arkansas “Economically, it doesn’t make much sense" Of course it does. If it didn't they wouldn't do it. The reality is that today you can ship frozen chicken dirt cheap and if you get it to china you can process it for essentially nothing. Now, Bernie and Hillary want to raise the minimum wage, will just increase the number of items that are "processed" in China. Donald wants make China pay import tariffs, fees and taxes which China will simply collect back on stuff going the other direction. There is one solution: When chicken can be processed in the US for the same money it takes to ship chick...See More Like · Reply · Mar 17, 2016 12:48pm Lisa Lindsey · Commonwealth College I know it's serious , but the caption has me weak #barenakedladies Like · Reply · Mar 17, 2016 9:03pm Priscilla Hoke I feel like puking! I'm not eating chicken anymore Like · Reply · Mar 18, 2016 8:45am Jerre Madden Miller · SDSU, Southwestern, Coronado School of Fine Arts NO more store-bought chicken that's for sure. Like · Reply · Apr 1, 2016 6:26pm Robert Andrews · Works at Retired I believe Tyson is sending chicken to China. Like · Reply · Apr 2, 2016 10:25am Bonnie Hodgson Mills Freezing meat, thawing to handle and cut, then re-freezing is in itself a recipe for food poisioning!! Then add any unsanitary hands and processing plants into the mix and China has a way to kill and disable American citizens without firing a shot........ Like · Reply · Apr 4, 2016 6:43am Erling Christoffersen · University of Southern Denmark The same has been done with fish for a number of years already. Like · Reply · May 28, 2016 4:13pm John Bravo And that's why I've got chickens in a brooder. I'll do my own meat. Like · Reply · May 28, 2016 9:15pm Krissy Anderson BUY CHICKENS FROM YOUR LOCAL FARMER'S MARKETS. IF YOU DON'T HAVE ONE, RESEARCH WHERE THE NEAREST IS. BOYCOTT! Like · Reply · May 29, 2016 4:00am Misty Brouillette Not true.. This is a hoax from 2003.. Check it on snopes.com Like · Reply · May 29, 2016 4:05am Cheryl Mae Yarrington · Rogers High School (Wyoming, Michigan) Even your local farmer can't butcher his own meat..Ex Present Bush made that a law..All beef goes to a processing plant..we have one in Detroit..that's where the pink slim comes from... Like · Reply · May 29, 2016 8:07am Vini Blundell · Titikaveka College Grow your own food is best, if it is possible. Like · Reply · May 29, 2016 10:43am Andrea D. Evans · Pleasant Hill High School, Pleasant Hill, CA I only buy and eat local Like · Reply · May 29, 2016 2:55pm Gill Dixon · The Holt School, Wokingham How would it be known if the chicken was exchanged for their local chicken. They have had disease problems in the past.!! Like · Reply · May 29, 2016 10:02pm Karen Kovacevich One easy solution , I will buy my own chicken and cut it up myself. It is pretty easy to do. Like · Reply · May 30, 2016 12:59am Sher Garren Listen up people, do not always believe what you read on Facebook--"organic" is bullshyt, all a farmer has to do (or a corporation) is buy a "organic label" for approx $15,000 amd call it good. Because one thing advertisers know, is that you, the public are "gulliable" Read up. http://www.snopes.com/china-chicken-reshipped/ Like · Reply · May 30, 2016 6:45pm Marria Aparecida e muito este produto Like · Reply · May 31, 2016 6:53am Laura Huffstetler · Auburn Montgomery How and who do we contact to find out the poultry companies that will be participating? I do not purchased processed chicken nuggets and such but worry that raw chicken will possibly be processed and returned. This is disgusting. The USDA barely supervises the poultry industry in the US- I think it might be in my best interest to start raising my own birds. Like · Reply · May 31, 2016 6:56am Danny Poling · College of Marin Please pass the Soylent green. Like · Reply · May 31, 2016 11:46am China Young · Works at The Dairy Center for the Arts #newworldnextweek Like · Reply · May 31, 2016 2:40pm Martell Nelson Glad I eat organic Like · Reply · May 31, 2016 2:48pm Moirraine Campbell · Lacey, Washington Better start calling your representatives and twittering the President, no, not this one, the next one. Like · Reply · May 31, 2016 8:37pm Carol Leavenworth Styrk · Michigan State University There is so muc wrong with this action - health wise, morally, and politically. How could this even be considered? Like · Reply · May 31, 2016 11:37pm Laura Ferguson Hunter · Works at Nth/Works I don't want chicken that is handled in China! Like · Reply · May 31, 2016 11:45pm Gisele LR · Teacher at Advantage Tutoring Services http://www.snopes.com/china-chicken-reshipped/ Like · Reply · Jun 1, 2016 1:21am Carol Graham · Las Vegas High School Its all about money they dont care about the little guy i bet they dont eat any of the food coming out china they can afford to buy the best Like · Reply · Jun 1, 2016 1:31am Susie Enarson Send union organizers over there and get their wages raised!! (y) Like · Reply · Jun 1, 2016 2:10am Gene Rose · Owner at Retired It is true Karen. When Donald Trump becomes our next president, this will be stopped. Like · Reply · Jun 1, 2016 2:11am Maureen Booth · Independent Distributor at Life Vantage Seriously time to look more seriously at becoming a vegetarian. We looked at frozen packages of fish yesterday and they were all processed in China.!!! Like · Reply · Jun 1, 2016 4:28am Clarice Neukam · Attended Harford Community College Karen Kohne>>>> It IS true! They've been talking about this for some time now. WE are stupid. Ship food products to China then back to U.S.?! Abserd! They can't even make dog food and treats (known to kill our pets) and OUR Government expects THEM to process food for human consumption. I would be willing to bet it won't even be labled that it was processed in China. Like · Reply · Jun 1, 2016 6:50am Steven Gagnon · Manchester, Connecticut It better be properly labeled because im not eating that chicken Like · Reply · Jun 1, 2016 9:41pm John Van Stry · Author of novels at Www.vanstry.net Someone needs to start a website identifying these companies (as the government has been bribed not to) so we can avoid this poisonous and deadly food. Like · Reply · Jun 1, 2016 11:13pm Mary Lou Carroll Andrews · Works at Now happily retired Processors here in the U.S. had better have a large lettered, very obvious sticker that reads TOTALLY PROCESSED IN THE U.S. Then we will know which chicken to purchase and which ones to boycott. Like · Reply · Jun 2, 2016 1:50am Robert Potter It looks like the poultry farmers are putting themselves out of business I raise my own chickens I don't buy any from the store Like · Reply · Jun 2, 2016 10:13am Casandra Emley ...or you could just stop eating all meat?...its been working for me for a long time. Like · Reply · Jun 2, 2016 2:22pm Lynn Chitty · Southwestern Illinois College Unfortunately as long as the money is there they will keep doing this crap, I'm going back to my local butcher not the chains. At least I'll know where it came from. Like · Reply · Jun 2, 2016 8:27pm Gabrielle Ackey · LPN at Carrollton Nursing and Rehab Center Well I guess it's time to build that chicken coop in the back yard like we've been planning to do......what a crock of stupidity....the world has gone crazy!!!!!! Like · Reply · Jun 3, 2016 12:52am Gene Natale No, the gov't doesn't give a damn about America or the American public. They only care about profits for their big $ contributors. THAT'S YOUR GOVERNMENT. Sorry for waking you. Like · Reply · Jun 3, 2016 2:57am Cindy LaValle · Bonita Vista High School Disgusting Like · Reply · Jun 3, 2016 7:43am Aaron Clow http://www.snopes.com/china-chicken-reshipped/ Like · Reply · Jun 3, 2016 9:41am Michael Sullivan honestly .. how can this be good for any one in the USA? except the lobbyist who flushed us.. and the bastards trying to make a buck.. i cant even imagine how shipping it across the pacific and processiing it china can be cheaper than doing it in the us? wtf? Like · Reply · Jun 4, 2016 2:28am Mark Polloni · Victor Valley College I TRIPLE DARE SOMEONE to NAME CHICKEN COMPANIES , THAT DO THIS !!!!!!! I WILL STOP BUYING !!!!!! Like · Reply · Jun 4, 2016 10:54am Debbie Tuter · Chief Executive Officer at Retired We raise our own food. We refuse to buy GMO, or anything government controlled. Like · Reply · Jun 6, 2016 12:21pm Doug Gerber · Producer/Director at Facepuncher films you "gato" be kidding me! Like · Reply · Jun 8, 2016 5:43am Michael Miller You know this was debunked a year ago, right? http://www.snopes.com/china-chicken-reshipped/ Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 5:35am Randolph Yuen Gross Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 6:25am Richard Bills · Grunt boilermaker at Retired Is this problem not supposed to be addressed with import tarrifs. With the goyernment relinquishing controll on imports, and whatever else to supposably shrink the tax dollar, for whatever reason, health safety is likely to suffer. What would be the reason for the demand for everyone in America to have health insurance if we aren't going to get sick or intentionally exposed to toxins It couldn't possibly have something to do with the TPP. What economical sense does sending poltry to China to be processed just to send them back. I'd like to see a cost study on this. It seems just ludicrous. Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 6:59am Γιωργος Κοσμοπολιτης · Works at Mossad This is an old article Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 7:05am Susan Alders McGreevy · Pleasant Hill, California Buy your meat locally grown. Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 7:06am Bill Gough · Works at Retired Where is our government ???? Oh, I forgot the POTUS is a democrat but the Congress is Republican !!! Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 7:45am Lisa Anderson The Congress signed a law in the last year which removed the country of origin labeling requirement for meat. My Congresswoman Republican Jaime Herrera voted for it. Our government sucks. Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 8:42am · Edited Judy McCammond Larson Mozell If authorities here r worried about on site inspection why would I want to eat it ????? Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 9:32am Chris Riley actually being shipped to chinese ships on internatonal waters off the coast of california. Shipping ports that clinton leasted to china for 100 years in southern california is also used. Slave labor 24/7 right here in the USA by foreign entity. If you trust store bought chicken, or chicken anywhere that you have not seen alive before it is dead. You are very stupid human. Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 10:17am Deb Koch · Bismarck High School What the hell is wrong with our government ????? Are they totally brain dead????? I use to Like chicken�������������� Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 10:49am Karla Thomas · University of Montevallo Boycott China... period. They purposefully poisoned cat food with melamine in 2007 and it killed many US pets including mine. Why let these people even touch our food? Let our enemy poison our food supply... and then spend billions on defense... jerks in government need to be replaced! Boycott China until they end the dog meat festival every year. The USA needs to end all trade with Chna, period! Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 12:17pm Dawn Mitchell · Sacramento High School I won't buy any of it Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 12:59pm Kimberly Dean Williams · On-Air Personality at KX 93.5 I've become a vegan and eat and buy organic when possible because the carbon footprint and unhealthy way we are raising and processing our livestock is ridiculous and completely out of hand! Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 3:20pm Cathy Ann Truth ? absolutely. Time to wake up is now. They have an agenda and it does not include the American people. Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 8:48pm Brandon Leasr I'm gonna raise my own food. Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 9:14pm Krystal Vullo · Southern Regional High School I wonder if this includes USDA certified organic chicken? Like · Reply · Aug 23, 2016 11:40pm Annie Anderson · Milton, Florida http://www.snopes.com/china-chicken-reshipped/ Like · Reply · Aug 24, 2016 12:04am Rick Sniders · Henrietta, New York Soylent Green is coming. May already be here. Like · Reply · Aug 24, 2016 12:14am John Wilkinson · Los Angeles, California I can totally believe this. They will have to go to extreme measures to sell the meat by it's "sell by date". All this because of minimum wage. There are plenty of jobless people with qualifications who will work for next to nothing but can't be hired for less than 7-15/hr. Like · Reply · Aug 24, 2016 1:20am Bill Fitzgerald · Works at Harris Corporation I blame Obama. Like · Reply · Aug 24, 2016 3:08am Kuata Escandon · Southwestern College USDA Says Okay To Ship U.S. Chicken to China for Cheap Processing (then re-entry to States for human consumption)really?....how $ chinese workers are getting paid for the pollito?..just like the salmon?.. .“There are 36 pin bones in a salmon and the best way to remove them is by hand,” says Charles Bundrant, founder of Trident, which ships about 30 million pounds of its 1.2 billion-pound annual harvest to China for processing. “Something that would cost us $1 per pound labor here, they get it done for 20 cents in China.” Like · Reply · Aug 24, 2016 3:24am Mary Hawks · Bangor, Maine First off that's disgusting I'll stop eating chicken. It" not safe passing it back and forth and very unhealthy. I would fear diseases. Why can't this job be done in America with Americans doing the work. I will go to my local farmers Like · Reply · Aug 24, 2016 3:44am

Former senator Miriam Defensor Santiago dies at age 71 Published September 29, 2016 10:28am Updated September 29, 2016 11:19am - See more at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/583161/news/nation/former-senator-miriam-defensor-santiago-dies-at-age-71#sthash.FwZgPwgq.dpuf

Former senator Miriam Defensor Santiago dies at age 71 Published September 29, 2016 10:28am Updated September 29, 2016 11:19am - See more at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/583161/news/nation/former-senator-miriam-defensor-santiago-dies-at-age-71#sthash.FwZgPwgq.dpuf Former Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago, 71, succumbed to cancer on Thursday morning, her husband Atty. Jun Santiago said. "She died peacefully in her sleep this morning," Santiago said. The former lawmaker passed away while confined at the St. Luke's Medical Center in Bonifacio Global City. Her official Twitter account posted a message midmorning that former Sen. Santiago died at 8:52 a.m. - See more at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/583161/news/nation/former-senator-miriam-defensor-santiago-dies-at-age-71#sthash.FwZgPwgq.dpuf Miriam Santiago ✔ @senmiriam Senator Miriam Defensor Santiago died peacefully today at 8:52 a.m. Details of the interment will be announced later. (1/2) 11:00 AM - 29 Sep 2016 It was in 2014 when the former lawmaker said that she had stage 4 lung cancer. Born in Iloilo City on June 15, 1945, the former senator ran for president in the May 2016 elections but lost to Rodrigo Duterte. She also sought the presidency in 1992 (won by Fidel Ramos) and 1998 (won by Joseph Estrada). Santiago has been dubbed as the "Iron Lady of Asia" for her no-nonsense drive against graft and corruption when she served all the three brances of the government—judicial, executive, and legislative. "In a nation where many public officials are charged with, or suspected, of plunder, her honesty shines like a light in the darkness," her Senate biography read. — KG, GMA News - See more at: http://www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/583161/news/nation/former-senator-miriam-defensor-santiago-dies-at-age-71#sthash.FwZgPwgq.dpuf

President Rodrigo Duterte invites United States President Barack Obama to come to the Philippines and investigate on the alleged human rights abuse and vigilante killings in connection with his anti-illegal drugs campaign.On Thursday, President Duterte mentioned about his plan to send a formal invitation to the European Union and United Nations to send their delegates to the Philippines for an investigation as well as an open forum with him.However, the president insists that he should also be allowed to ask questions to EU and UN afterwards. — UNTV News & Rescue

President Rodrigo Duterte invites United States President Barack Obama to come to the Philippines and investigate on the alleged human rights abuse and vigilante killings in connection with his anti-illegal drugs campaign.On Thursday, President Duterte mentioned about his plan to send a formal invitation to the European Union and United Nations to send their delegates to the Philippines for an investigation as well as an open forum with him.However, the president insists that he should also be allowed to ask questions to EU and UN afterwards. — UNTV News & Rescue

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MOTIVATION September 20, 2016 8:00 a.m. What Separates Champions From ‘Almost Champions’? By Brad Stulberg

MOTIVATION September 20, 2016 8:00 a.m. What Separates Champions From ‘Almost Champions’? By Brad Stulberg Share Tweet Share Share Email Comment Print Photo: H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images Great athletes are fascinating. It’s a thrill to watch the very best of the very best. And though your natural abilities (or lack thereof) may prevent you from becoming as good as the champs, you can improve yourself by emulating their behavior. And yet there’s an overlooked group that is worth your attention, too, if for a very different reason: the almost greats, those who were once good enough to play with the best of the best, but ended up in second-rate leagues. It’s the perennial million-dollar question of nature versus nurture, sure. But the difference between the greats and the almost-greats (which, by the way, applies well beyond sports) also appears to be at least partially driven by one specific thing — how each group responds to adversity. The greats rise to the challenge and put in persistent effort; the almost-greats lose steam and regress. RELATED STORIES Get Yourself to Do Stuff by Appealing to Your Own Sense of Pride How Exercise Shapes You, Far Beyond the Gym For a recent study published in the journal Frontiers in Psychology, talent development researchers Dave Collins, Áine MacNamara, and Neil McCarthy examined the differences between athletes who overcame adversity and went on to become world-class (what they call super champions) and those who struggled in the face of hardship (the heartbreakingly named “almost champions”). Whereas super champions were playing in premiere leagues and/or competing on national teams (think: Olympics), almost champions had achieved well at the youth level but were playing in less prestigious leagues as adults. The researchers found that super champions were characterized by an almost fanatical reaction to challenge.” They viewed challenges in a positive light — as opportunities to grow — and overcame them thanks to a “never satisfied” attitude. This runs in contrast to almost champions, who blamed setbacks on external causes, became negative, and lost motivation. Although athletes in each group faced comparable challenges, the researchers write, their responses — “what the athletes brought to the challenges” — were quite distinct. These responses, of course, are the product of personal histories, histories that turned out to be similar amongst athletes in the same group but patently different between groups. By examining these differences, we can learn how to cultivate unwavering effort — a “never satisfied attitude” that gains strength from failure — in ourselves and in others. Follow your interests. Starting in their youth, super champions showed great interest in their respective sports. They enjoyed not only competing in matches, but also practicing and training. Super champions did not specialize in a single sport during their early childhood. Rather, they were given latitude to explore diverse activities. (A paper published in the journal Pediatrics earlier this month supports this notion, stating that later specialization is best for health and performance. Other studies show early specialization doesn’t work in athletes; nearly 90 percent of 2016 NFL draft picks played multiple sports in high school.) Almost champions also loved the thrill of competition, but they remembered having an aversion toward practice and at times felt forced to pursue their respective sport. As one almost champion put it: “I loved fighting, but the training was just a chore. I would miss it if I could, and always avoided the bits I was shit at.” The best goal is also the simplest: Get better. Super champions were driven from within. Their primary concern was self-improvement. They held themselves to high standards, but judged themselves against prior versions of themselves, not against others. Almost champions, however, were focused on external benchmarks, like national rankings or how they compared to rivals, a mind-set the researchers speculate explains why almost champions got discouraged during rough patches. If you’re a parent, be supportive but not obsessive. “My parents were not really pushy,” explained one super champion, whose response was representative of her peers. “It was a kind of gentle encouragement …they didn’t get [overly] involved. They’d just come and watch me, support me. But they never wanted to know what I was doing trainingwise and never got involved in that way, and that helped.” The parents of almost champions, however, were an ever-present factor, hovering over their every move. “My parents, my dad especially, was always there, shouting instructions from the touchline, pushing me to practice at home,” remembers an almost champion. “Really, I just wanted to be out there with my mates. I felt like sport stole my childhood.” Seek empowering, lasting mentorship. The coaches of super champions were empowering and “mostly seemed to take a longer-term perspective,” the researchers wrote. This differs from the experience of almost champions, who remember their coaches as more focused on immediate results, “often seeming to drive the bus more than the performer.” No surprise, then, that almost champions changed coaches frequently whereas super champions maintained long-term relationships. Yes, this is only one study, and only of athletes (54 of them, to be exact), but its findings support other psychological research, as well as the theory that “talent needs trauma.” In short, it goes like this: Individuals who have faced adversity and faltered in the past are more likely to show persistent effort and reach the top in the future. This is true in sports, but also in business, where a similar mind-set is gaining traction. Companies are increasingly seeking out individuals who have failed in the past and recruiting them to run high-profile projects. Take, for example, Amazon, which recently hired the executives of Webvan — a grocery-delivery service that went bust in 2001 — to run AmazonFresh. In a letter to shareholders, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos wrote, “Failure comes part and parcel with innovation.” *** It’s true that not everyone can be a world-class performer. Yes, effort counts — the psychologist Angela Duckworth, who rose to fame for her pioneering research on “grit,” argues that effort actually counts twice: Talent times effort equals skill, she says, and skill times effort equals achievement. But of course our inherited traits still matter, too; and in a paradoxical twist, even our willingness to exert persistent effort may be at least partially genetic. Some of us are born with lower sensitivity to the feel-good neurochemical dopamine, which is widely known to underpin desire. Dopamine isn’t released when we achieve a goal, but rather, when we are pursuing one. It follows that the more dopamine we need to feel satiated, the more likely we are to remain eternally hungry. Even so, research suggests that only a minority of our personality is inherited. Not to mention, the same urge for dopamine that spawns productive motivation can also lead to destructive addictions. In other words, when it comes to drive and determination, dopamine may be a factor, but it’s one of many and only useful if harnessed and pointed in the right direction, as super champions are able to do. World-class performers, then, don’t rely on either nature or nurture, but on a combination of the two — and they are really good at nurturing their nature. All of which suggests the recipe that gives rise to super champions is worth emulating: Individuals who demonstrate persistent effort follow their interests; practice foremost to get better, not to outdo others; derive satisfaction from within; and feel constantly supported, but not pressured, in their journey toward achievement. If these criteria are in place, experiencing failure doesn’t weaken motivation — it bolsters it. In the words of Dr. Michael Joyner, an expert on human performance at the Mayo Clinic, “With enough persistent effort, most people can get pretty good at anything.” Brad Stulberg writes about health and the science of human performance. He’s a co-author of the forthcoming book PEAK PERFORMANCE. Follow him on Twitter @Bstulberg. TAGS:MOTIVATIONHUMAN PERFORMANCESTUDIES Share on Facebook Tweet this Story

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By WakingTimes September 9, 2016 4 Comments Read More → The Multi-Dimensional Self 184467 Like Multidimensional beingsJeff Street, Guest Waking Times Whether you know it or not, you are a multidimensional being of staggering proportions. You are more than meets the eye, much more — more than your body, more than your soul, in fact, you are an integral part of the Universe. You are present on many levels of reality simultaneously and more powerful than you have ever imagined. Are you ready to expand your concept of selfhood to include higher selves, other/parallel selves, and probable selves? If so then, let’s dive in! “Take the red pill … and I’ll show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes.” ~Morpheus, The Matrix Most of us are familiar with the idea of the soul — the conception that our bodies are transient physical vessels for an eternal energetic aspect of our consciousness, which is our true essence. Conventional science dismisses this idea, and so do many people. I’m assuming that you probably embrace it since you were attracted to this article. You’re not alone; many people feel the presence of something greater within themselves. And as the great shift in the consciousness of humanity accelerates more and more people are feeling and connecting to it. If we take the existence of some sort of higher aspect of self as a given, the next question becomes; is our current idea of the soul accurate and complete? There are a growing number of sources that are saying that it is not, that it is overly simplistic, in fact, almost one-dimensional when compared to the new higher fidelity models being suggested. Some schools of thought subscribe to the very simple model shown below. soul-model-simple This model portrays just two entities; Source/God and Souls (potentially connected to bodies). Its most notable element is that the soul is seen as created by, but separate from the creator. This representation is very simple and easy to understand but it is a gross oversimplification, and the idea that we are separate from Source/God is, well, just plain wrong. Luckily, fewer and fewer people are subscribing to this particular model. Another school of thought offers a somewhat more sophisticated model as shown below. soul-model-3-level It considers the Soul a PART OF a wider/higher entity referred to as the Over-Soul, which in turn, is part of the all-encompassing Source/God entity. This model is on the right track and hits upon a couple of key elements; we are multi-layered beings, and every layer is PART OF (and within) each successive layer and all are part of, and within, the one all-encompassing being that we call Source/God. Yet even this model is an oversimplification. A word of warning here; when you see the term “being”, think “sentient energetic entity” not “physical being”. Most of us have a tendency to personify the concept of “beingness”, but this is a mistake. The essence of all beingness is something non-physical and that’s why I will often use the term “entity” instead, because it avoids this trap. While the models presented certainly do reflect some aspects of the deeper reality, it is my contention that they are just gross approximations. In the remainder of this article, I will present a more sophisticated model that is a synthesis of ideas from a number of different sources and expands greatly beyond the models mentioned above. It suggests that we are multidimensional entities present on many levels of “reality” simultaneously and more powerful than we have been led to believe or have ever imagined. Only a small portion of your total beingness is present in the physical body that you may have erroneously assumed was all of you. The you that you identify as you is a part of a much bigger entity, which is ultimately also just a small part of the ultimate entity that is “all that is” — referred to through the ages by many names; Source, Infinite Creator, God, etc. You are a multidimensional being of staggering proportions and in your quest to know yourself, and the nature of your existence, you have employed massive parallelism. Higher Selves So what exactly is a soul and what is its relationship to what some call “God” and others call “Source Consciousness”? If you haven’t heard the term “source consciousness” before then this may come as a shock — the universe is conscious in its very fabric. The Universe is not at all what it appears from our very limited perspective. We exist inside of something resembling a great cosmic mind, often referred to as “cosmic/universal consciousness”. As the term “source consciousness” suggests, all consciousness is derived from the universal field of consciousness. The consciousness of each and every one of us is an individualized thread of the universal consciousness. This is what your “soul” is — it is a thread of universal consciousness with an associated repository of experiential information (local memory), and derivative ideas, all somehow encoded as a pattern of energy. Our soul is sentient energy as is the entire universe. “There is only One Consciousness in all existence. The consciousness that I know myself as is the same consciousness you know yourself as.” ~Story Waters, The One Self Teachings Source consciousness is the intelligence that is/created our Universe, and it INDIRECTLY created all our souls. One of the fundamental capabilities of consciousness is the ability to subdivide itself — to create smaller individualized copies of itself within itself. Source used this mechanism to create the first level of sub-threads of its consciousness, what in effect could be thought of as sub-selves. It did this to explore and experience many-ness, rather than oneness, but more importantly, as a strategy to accelerate the exploration of itself and existence — to accelerate its evolution. The mechanism that Source used to accomplish subdivision and individuation of its consciousness was primarily that of lowering the frequency of portions of its energies, stepping them down into the lower frequency bands of the energetic field. This is part of the reason why subdivisions of consciousness operate somewhat independently of, yet are inherently part of and connected to, the “higher” consciousness that spawned them — they are simply portions of the parent sentient energies at a significantly lower frequential level. The subdivisions of consciousness that Source created within itself, in a very real sense, can be considered its sub-selves. And here is the really cool part, anything that a sub-self experiences is also experienced by its parent/higher-self and thus forms the basis for an evolutionary strategy – massively parallel experiences! The process of subdivision of consciousness is a general capability and can and has been repeated by the sub-selves at each level of consciousness, and for the same reasons — to accelerate their evolution, and thereby contributing to Sources evolution. Consciousness is like a multi-level branching structure. If we use a tree analogy then source consciousness would be the tree trunk. The tree trunk then divides into many large branches, which keep dividing into smaller and smaller branches until we get to twigs with a leaf attached to the end of each. tree-of-consciouness In this model we could think of the “leaves” as physical bodies and then as you move from the leaf towards the trunk we’d encounter the soul level, and then the over-soul level, and then a number of additional levels till we reached the tree trunk coming out of the ground, the Source level. Note that even thou the diagram above shows seven levels it’s unclear how many levels there really are, or whether all branches have to have the same number of divisions/levels. The only thing that’s for sure is that there are more than three levels, probably many more. A number of sources indicate that there is a level above the Over-Soul that has been referred to as “Soul Group”. Below is a diagram illustrating the divisional structure of universal consciousness. divsions-of-consciousness According to some sources there are 2,135 Soul Groups participating in the Earth experience right now (who knows how many exist within Source in total, probably many more). Each Soul Group entity is able to subdivide itself into (create) up to 144,000 over-souls, and each over-soul is able to create up to 12 souls, and each soul up to 12 soul-extensions. A Soul-Extension is just another subdivision of consciousness which allows connection to physical vehicles (bodies) in the very lowest frequency bands. The consciousness that connects to a body to “drive” it has to be within a certain “distance” frequentailly to achieve the connection. If you do the math this leads to potentially 44 billion incarnate entities on Earth. An over-soul creates one or more souls for the purpose of connecting to physical bodies in the physical planes of existence — the lower frequency bands of the Universe. A physical body is simply a vehicle that the soul uses to have physical experiences. Physical life provides unique and highly formative experiences that are much sought after by a wide variety of non-physical beings. Physical experience, while challenging, is a spiritual evolution fast track and therefore highly coveted. The 12×12 subdivisional structure of the Over-Soul allows each over-soul to have up to 144 sub-selves that each can bind to physical bodies for 144 parallel physical lives. And of course, one of these 144 sub-selves and its body is YOU! The Higher Self, The True Self Amongst those that embrace that they have a soul, many are still overly identified with their body as their identity. Even those that embrace the soul as their true identity may be missing a deeper appreciation of the true scope of their wider/higher self. Despite the fact that some use the term “Higher-Self” as a synonym for the “Over-Soul” I think it’s better used to refer to all the levels of self all the way up to, and including, Source. The figure below illustrates this idea. figure-higher-self Your body, and in a sense, even your soul, were created as a transient sentient entity to serve as an experiential and evolutionary vehicle for your over-soul. So in a very real sense, you could consider the over-soul that spawned your soul as your TRUE SELF! And your Over-Soul is an immensely wise and powerful being that is always trying to encourage you to create the best experiences for yourself and to become the highest vision of yourself. Why? because you are part of it, and it is experiencing through you! At this point you might be wondering, If this is true, why don’t I know it and feel it?This is a very good question. When your soul incarnates (connects to a physical vehicle) it loses its memory of its greater existence. The “veil of forgetting” is intentional, it makes the earth game a fully immersive and truly formative experience. The game of life would not be the same if you knew it was just a game. We also lose a lot of the fidelity of our connection to our higher-self (over-soul and source). This is an unavoidable consequence of incarnating into the lower frequency planes of existence — the physical planes. Our earthly level of consciousness is at a frequency so much lower than that of our higher-self that any stream of information coming down is subject to a large reduction of fidelity due to the frequency step down required. Yet we could still have a very good connection with our higher-self if it wasn’t for one thing — our out-of-control ego. The constant chatter of the ego and analytical mind creates so much mental noise that we can’t hear the inner guiding voice of our higher-self. Essentially the signal to noise ratio is so low that the information coming from our higher-self gets drowned out. Hence, most people on Earth have almost totally lost connection with their higher-self and have completely forgotten what they really are. What does it take to reestablish a clear connection to your higher-self? For one thing, it takes a clear and quiet mind. One must quell the constant chatter of the analytical and egoic mind and the fear and worry that dominates it. Another thing that helps is to reduce our busyness — the constant distractions of our hectic daily lives don’t leave much space for the presence of the higher-self. Making more time for solitude and meditation is a good start. Even thou the loss of connection with our higher-self could be seen as “bad” it actually serves one of the reasons why we devised the game of life in the first place — to experience separation and to see what it could teach us — separation from the source of our beingness, separation from the knowing that we are all parts of one great being and interconnected and interdependent. With training, you can learn how to move your locus of consciousness to any level of your wider/higher-self — your soul, over-soul, even Source, and perceive from that higher perspective. In fact, you can move your locus of consciousness to anywhere in the infinite matrix that is the conceptual/information space of the universal field of consciousness. Other Selves, Parallel Selves, and Many Lives From the perspective of your Over-Soul (the higher you), all the souls that it created, and their extensions that are connected to physical bodies, could be considered your “other selves”. By some accounts, this can be up to 144 PARALLEL incarnations, and regardless of whether that exact number is correct, we can safely say that the higher you is experiencing MANY LIVES in parallel. And since at the end of a life the sentient energy that was connected to a body can be reused with another body, your Over-Soul has experienced far more incarnations than this, perhaps thousands! This is why your Over-Soul is so wise, it’s the sum of all the wisdom gleaned from a vast amount of experiences. Your many incarnations can be anywhere in the physical Universe — any planet; any galaxy; any time period — past, present, or future (our conception of time is wrong, time is an illusion); and in any one of the planes of physical reality. But since you’re here having an Earth experience it is very likely that many of the other lives the higher you is having are also here on Earth, probably in other time periods. The Earth reality system provides challenging yet highly formative experiences that are appropriate for fairly advanced beings, so if you are currently engaged here, then it is likely that most of your other selves are here as well because anything less would be boring. Here’s a diagram that highlights all the parallel incarnations associated with a given over-soul. parallel-selves Past and Future Lives Using a technique known as “Past Life Regression” you can actually visit or “see” your other lives — by “see” I mean “have and inner experience of”. This is done by going into a trance state (via hypnosis or deep relaxation) and then being guided, by suggestion or your own intent, to visit the experiences of your “other selves”, your “other lives”. In the trance state, the earthly mind is quieted, and one can perceive from the vantage point of any level of ones higher-self and sense the experiences of any of their parallel lives. All these experiences are recorded in the energy/information field of your higher-self and are accessible if you center the focus of your consciousness in one of the levels of your higher-self. Depending on the level you may “see” the lives experienced by your soul, or your over-soul, or perhaps even higher levels of yourself. The term “Past Life Regression” is a bit of a misnomer since your other lives are all happening simultaneously and can be in any time period; past or future. If visiting a future life seems illogical or impossible to you then you might want to check out my article on The Illusion of Time. In the many thousands of regressions that have been done many have reported “seeing” portions of lives that were clearly in the future rather than in the past. Most people focus on exploring their “past lives” because, with our erroneous conception of linear time, we think that the past is “recorded” (and therefore potentially can be explored) but the future hasn’t happened yet (so isn’t recorded and can’t be visited). There are also many people who have reported experiences from what could be called the “inter-life” period, the time between lives. A common report from these experiences is that our many lives are all, somehow, happening at once. Yet other people have reported an apparent sequential process of coming out of one life, reviewing it, planning, and then starting the next — which seems to contradict “all at once”. This is likely due to the fact that non-linear concepts are very hard for our earthly minds to understand and express so we will often express them linearly. To dive deeper into the topic of past life regression I recommend the following books; Past Life Regression: Discover Your Hidden Past Life Memories and Past Lives, Future Lives Revealed. Many-Paths-To-Take-b Probable Selves, Parallel Selves, and Many Life Paths Another way that your higher-self accelerates its evolution through the use of parallelism is to experience all possible/probable life paths! Have you ever wondered what would have happened if you had made a different choice at a critical juncture in your life? Well, so did your soul, but instead of just wondering it divides its consciousness yet again, creating a sub-thread of its consciousness to follow and experience each alternate life path. At every decision point of any significance, one portion of your souls sentience follows branch A, and another follows branch B. Your soul is experiencing all possible/probable life paths in parallel! The YOU that you think of as you is simply a sub-thread of your soul that is experiencing one particular branch of the life path decision tree. At every significant decision point on a life path the path branches. A decision tree represents all possible paths. All of these are experienced by your soul. This mechanism creates a massively parallel experience which maximizes the evolutionary potential for the soul, for the over-soul, and for Source — since all experiences are experienced by your higher consciousness, they trickle up. The soul threads that follow each of the possible paths of experience could in a sense, be called “Probable Selves”. Because there is one for each possible/probable life path. These probable selves are all very real and so are all the alternate experiences they are having — and it is all being accumulated by your higher levels of self! Imagine how much one could learn by experiencing every possible alternative life path, and all their outcomes! You would learn and grow very fast! That’s the reason why we designed the process this way! The Highest Self, The One Self “Life has everything to do with you. But with Big You, not with Little You; with Universal You, not with Local You. There is only One of us.” ~Neale Donald Walsch Once you understand and embrace the multidimensional nature of your beingness, your perspective will broaden greatly. You may begin to see yourself not as the body and the ego that’s running around here on Earth but as your true essence — your eternal higher-self. You might even embrace, that in a very real sense, your “highest self” is source consciousness! And an even greater realization may come over you. The realization that since the consciousness of all entities/beings are ultimately threads of source consciousness, and hence we are all parts of the one universal consciousness, that in a very real sense, there is only “One Self”. All levels of consciousness and all loci of consciousness/beingness are ultimately within, and integral parts of, source consciousness — the one being. And this one being is your highest self, so in a sense, all beings could be considered “yourself”. This is why it makes sense to treat all beings with the utmost respect, care, encouragement, etc — because it’s all you! About the Author Jeff Street awakened about a year and a half ago, after having been an atheist/agnostic scientist type with absolutely no spiritual beliefs for most of his life. After many ‘magical’ new experiences, he is now passionate about learning and sharing his insights about spirituality and metaphysics on his blog www.divine-cosmos.net. You can also follow Jeff on Facebook via www.Facebook.com/DivineCosmoz Like Waking Times on Facebook. Follow Waking Times on Twitter. 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US to give Philippines military planes: govt AFP News AFP NewsSeptember 7, 2016 The United States is giving the Philippines two used military aircraft, the coast guard said Wednesday, to help Manila expand sea patrols in the face of territorial disputes with China. The two Sherpa 30-seater aircraft will be delivered in December, Philippine coast guard spokesman Commander Armand Balilo told AFP. "It will help us in the movements of the Philippine Coast Guard like patrol missions," Balilo added. The announcement came days after Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte on Monday sparked a major diplomatic row with Manila's longtime treaty ally the United States by branding President Barack Obama a "son of a whore". Duterte said Tuesday he regretted the tirade, sparked by the US leader's plan to raise the issue of extrajudicial killings under Duterte's war on crime. Manila, which has one of Asia's weakest militaries, has been trying to improve defence ties with its former colonial ruler Washington and other allies. Balilo said the Sherpas would help the coast guard augment its meagre air patrol capability, now comprised of two old Britten-Norman Islanders. The Philippines has expressed concern about Beijing's massive island-building over reefs, some of them claimed by Manila, in the South China Sea. Duterte last week said China had sent barges to the contested Scarborough Shoal and had appeared to begin construction there for the first time. On Wednesday the Philippines released photos to back its claims. Manila scored a sweeping victory when a UN-backed tribunal ruled in July that Beijing's claims to most of the sea had no legal basis and that its construction of artificial islands was illegal. The US has said it does not take sides in the dispute but has raised its naval presence in the region to ensure freedom of navigation. Taiwan, Brunei, Malaysia and Vietnam also have competing claims to parts of the sea, through which $5 trillion in annual trade passes.

Russia: Investigation into possible pipeline break ordered as Daldykan River turns bright red

Russia: Investigation into possible pipeline break ordered as Daldykan River turns bright red International Business Times William Watkinson International Business TimesSeptember 8, 2016 Authorities in the Arctic city of Norilsk have begun an investigation into a possible pipeline break after a river running through the city turned red. Residents of the nickel-producing city, located in the north east of the country, noticed that the Daldykan River had changed colour on Tuesday (6 September). Speculation by social media users centred on a possible break in pipes serving the nickel-producing town, leading to industrial waste leaking into the river. Other theories mentioned iron ore seeping into the water through the ground. In a statement, the natural resources and environment ministry in Russia said that they were probing complaints of unknown chemical pollution, possibly caused by a "break in a Norilsk Nickel slurry pipe". According to the Guardian, the Daldykan runs near to the Nadezhda metallurgical factory, run by the world's largest producer of nickel and palladium, Norilsk Nickel. The company have reportedly denied a chemical leak saying the "colour of the river today doesn't differ from its usual condition", the state news agency RIA Novosti reported. The company added, according to the newspaper, said it was temporarily reducing manufacturing at the Hope Metals Plant while it monitored the situation. The river is not believed to supply drinking water. ABC News reported that Norilsk is known as one of the most polluted cities on earth, and the river had previously turned red in June of this year. Red riverView photos Red river More Denis Koshevoi, a PhD candidate at the Vernadsky Institute for Geochemistry and Analytical Chemistry, is researching pollution in the area. He told the Guardian: "Periodically there are accidents when these pipes break and the solutions spill and get into the Daldykan – that's why it changes colour". "A leak into the river from the Nadezhda factory," the Norilsk resident Yekaterina Basalyga wrote under two pictures of the river on her Instagram account. "You get scared when you see this. And people are still gathering mushrooms and berries." In July 2014 a contaminated river in Cangnan county, Wenzhou, Zhejiang province, turned bright red. Environmental Protection Bureau officers in China were unable to figure out the cause of the colour change but some reports say that water samples could have been caused by illegal dumping. Red River 1View photos Red River 1 More Related Articles How we discovered a possible link between car exhausts and Alzheimer's Singapore chokes on smoke from Indonesia's slash-and-burn fires Which essential oils could treat lung and liver ailments caused by air pollution? Russia: Investigation into possible pipeline break ordered as Daldykan River turns bright red

A pastor was traveling last week, he saw an old man, and gave him a lift.

*MUST READ** THIS MESSAGE HAS BEEN SHARED* A pastor was traveling last week, he saw an old man, and gave him a lift. While they were going, the old man said; my son, do you know what happened in Heaven last night? The pastor was so terrified and hurriedly parked and asked; Sir, are you sleeping? How did you get the information about Heaven? The Old man said; last night in Heaven God became very angry with man and asked the Angels to blow the trumpet. The angels picked up the trumpets and as they were about to blow it WHEN, Jesus fell down and began to plead in tears. The blood that came out of His hands and body were very fresh. He told God that His death shouldn't be in vain. God couldn't stand the pains of the saint and the wickedness of the evil ones. So He said; "I AM GIVING THEM THEIR LAST CHANCE." Jesus then turned to the angels and told them to move down in their numerous numbers to tell the world that: "THE END IS NEAR, JESUS IS COMING VERY SOON". The pastor (sweating and crying) asked; sir, how did you know this? The OLD MAN replied; I am one of the Angels sent to the World. Please use every medium of communication to send this message. No time to waste, Please! And the old man disappeared. Brethren, this story is real, Christ is coming Soon. PLEASE SAVE A SOUL TODAY. I Have done my part, it's now your turn to spread the Gospel. No wealth can be compared to life everlasting in Heaven. If you are Ready to share this Message, LIKE and write: "AMEN" May God bless you all. AND DO NOT FORGET TYPE AMEN AND SHARE THIS POST