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Diseased Chicken Meat for Sale in China after Bird Flu Outbreak

2008-12-22 11:56

 

WONG:
In China, chickens that have died from a recent bird flu outbreak are being processed for their meat and sold as food. 

Farmers in Jiangsu Province told our media partner, Sound of Hope Radio, that when birds began to die en masse about a month ago, the regime did not respond in any sort of organized fashion, even as the number of dead birds ran into the tens of thousands.  They say authorities never gave tests for bird flu, quarantined sick animals, or issued guidelines.

The CCP had promised chicken farmers 10 yuan per dead chicken as compensation for their lost income, but when farmers attempted to collect the money, riot police turned them away.

Into this relative vacuum stepped unscrupulous poultry vendors who bought the dead, diseased birds from them on the cheap. They used ineffective methods of purifying the meat—like dunking the chickens in hydrogen peroxide—to give the illusion that the diseased flesh had been sanitized and was fit to eat.

The Chinese regime is not regulating the sale of chickens.  And with no system in place to stop this sort of dangerous activity, the diseased chicken meat may now be making its way onto the plates of unsuspecting Chinese consumers.