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I think Menu Foods was actually buying processed wheat gluten from China, not raw wheat. The slave labor wages in the PRC likely offset our costs making the gluten here.

It's amazing now, how many raw materials are shipped all the way to China, processed and then shipped all the way back to North America.

A fully loaded 40' container shipped from the PRC costs about $2,500.00 US in freight charges. Despite that expense, it is still cheaper to use the $0.50 a -day- labor charges manufactures can get in China.

144 posted on 03/23/2007 11:55:28 AM PDT by Milwaukee_Guy (Don't hit them between the eyes. Hit them right -in- the eyes!)

Do we know for a fact this poison was sprayed on the wheat or is it a bran like slug bait that was paced on the ship to kill the on board rats and got into the cargo?

149 posted on 03/23/2007 12:34:33 PM PDT by tubebender ( Everything east of the San Andreas fault will eventually plunge into the Atlantic Ocean...)