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<blockquote data-quote="Jogeephus" data-source="post: 1106810" data-attributes="member: 4362"><p>Chicken is not the only thing. Consider the antibiotics we use. The last US antibiotic manufacturer closed its doors (in Nebraska I think) several years ago citing excessive regulation so now all of our antibiotics or their components are produced either in China or India by some of the same companies that used to be here. India has partially agreed to allow FDA inspectors in their plants but one of the large companies in India said they would cancel their expansion plans if this happened and would move to China because when the FDA gets involved the cost of manufacturing will increase by 25%. All this happened about 9 years ago but we have not had any major problems since the change so is it really a safety issue or an excessive regulation issue? Just look at what they are doing to that Rancho meat processor fella. USDA inspector on site, vet on site and they still make them recall all that meat potentially putting small producers out of business due to reasons they cannot explain. </p><p></p><p>Myself, I'm not so worried about the Chinese or the Indians making things subpar as much as I see all this being a tremendous threat to our national security of our nation. Just think how vulnerable this makes us if we get into a spat with China. People will die because we will not have the means to manufacture our own medicine. I also seriously doubt China is going to allow USFDA inspectors free reign of their plants. I know I wouldn't. </p><p></p><p>Seems no one wants anything in "their backyard" and the government preys on this by taking our freedoms away and inserting their noses. Have a friend who just built a factory that will employee hundreds of people. Its all run by electricity but because one of his electric machines held more than a certain number of gallons of lubrication oil he had to build an $80,000 containment tank around it and he said they were just so lovely to work with. There is a point of diminishing returns and unfortunately DotGov just doesn't get it so we are losing industries such as this. Might just be me but the threat I see is not coming from overseas.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jogeephus, post: 1106810, member: 4362"] Chicken is not the only thing. Consider the antibiotics we use. The last US antibiotic manufacturer closed its doors (in Nebraska I think) several years ago citing excessive regulation so now all of our antibiotics or their components are produced either in China or India by some of the same companies that used to be here. India has partially agreed to allow FDA inspectors in their plants but one of the large companies in India said they would cancel their expansion plans if this happened and would move to China because when the FDA gets involved the cost of manufacturing will increase by 25%. All this happened about 9 years ago but we have not had any major problems since the change so is it really a safety issue or an excessive regulation issue? Just look at what they are doing to that Rancho meat processor fella. USDA inspector on site, vet on site and they still make them recall all that meat potentially putting small producers out of business due to reasons they cannot explain. Myself, I'm not so worried about the Chinese or the Indians making things subpar as much as I see all this being a tremendous threat to our national security of our nation. Just think how vulnerable this makes us if we get into a spat with China. People will die because we will not have the means to manufacture our own medicine. I also seriously doubt China is going to allow USFDA inspectors free reign of their plants. I know I wouldn't. Seems no one wants anything in "their backyard" and the government preys on this by taking our freedoms away and inserting their noses. Have a friend who just built a factory that will employee hundreds of people. Its all run by electricity but because one of his electric machines held more than a certain number of gallons of lubrication oil he had to build an $80,000 containment tank around it and he said they were just so lovely to work with. There is a point of diminishing returns and unfortunately DotGov just doesn't get it so we are losing industries such as this. Might just be me but the threat I see is not coming from overseas. [/QUOTE]
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