Posted on 11/15/2013 1:03:26 PM PST by Rebelbase
FWIW Let’s not forget that our farmland is being used to grow crops to produce ethanol.
Smithfield was recently purchased by the Chinese. Their produts used to be a staple in this house. Not now.
I agree with you for the most part, was hoping for a link rather than an opinion.
sometimes you just gotta shut up and eat your peace
The Smithfield deal was turned down a couple of months ago. Read it in the WSJ.
Statistics from the U.S. Department of Agriculture show that Mexico by far is the most important supplier of fresh produce to the U.S., accounting for 69% of U.S. fresh vegetable import value and 37% of U.S. fresh fruit import value in 2012.
But looks like green beans...
Nope!....I look for USA products, and we still produce some of the best fruits and veggies!
It is difficult to tell on many foods, as the label only states ‘distributed by XYZ Store’.
Some labels do indicate the country of origin, however.
Recently, I purchased a jug of 100% apple juice.
Later, I noticed on the label ‘product of China’.
I don’t eat veggies.
Canned foods are bad for you anyway, unless you can them in mason jars.
I don’t want 3-D printed grains of rice from China in my bird!
Our family hasn't bought GG in years. Roughly, about 20 years ago, the Wall Street Journal had an article by a couple of award-winning journalists who were chronicling the demise of manufacturing in America due to NAFTA.
One of their reports was about GG shutting down a canning plant in California and moving it to Mexico. The Mexican workers were going on strike there because the new factory was only employing them 11 months of the year so they could claim they were only part time and therefore not even have to pay the pitifully low Mexican minimum wage.
I wrote GG saying this was BS, as I now could now not trust the quality of their products since I figured the unhappy workers might be spitting in the cans.
Never got a reply, so we switched to their competitors and never looked back.
Really?! That is great! I’m going to check that out now. Thanks!
“That’s the way your hard-core Commie works.”
This is the first time I discovered the frozen veggies are from Mexico.....again, had no idea.----I buy USA!
Saw some good looking jarred fruit on the grocer’s shelf, price was low enough for me to examine a jar of peaches & sure as heck distributed by someplace in California but also “a product of china”.
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