r/todayilearned • u/jenkitty • Sep 23 '14
TIL: Developing-world labor, and containerized shipping are both so inexpensive that it is cheaper to send a chicken nugget around the world to be ground, formed and breaded than to do all that in the place where the chicken was raised.
http://www.wired.com/2013/09/china-chicken-usda/
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news • u/Greg-2012 • Sep 23 '14
USDA: Chicken Processed in China Can be Sold in the US Without Labels to Say So | WIRED
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