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Post by Deleted on Sept 18, 2015 21:21:58 GMT -5
Floating around FB.
ALWAYS READ THE LABELS ON THE FOODS YOU BUY--NO MATTER WHAT THE FRONT OF THE BOX OR PACKAGE SAYS, TURN IT OVER AND READ THE BACK---CAREFULLY! With all the food ...and pet products now coming from China , it is best to make sure you read label at the grocery store and especially Walmart when buying food products. Many products no longer show where they were made, only give where the distributor is located. It is important to read the bar code to track it's origin. How to read Bar Codes .... interesting! This may be useful to know when grocery shopping, if it's a concern to you. GREAT WAY TO "BUY USA & CANADA " AND NOT FROMCHINA!! The whole world is concerned about China-made "black hearted goods". Can you differentiate which one is made in Taiwan or China ? If the first 3 digits of the barcode are 690 691 or 692, the product is MADE IN CHINA. 471 is Made in Taiwan . This is our right to know, but the government and related departments never educate the public, therefore we have to RESCUE ourselves. Nowadays, Chinese businessmen know that consumers do not prefer products "MADE IN CHINA", so they don't show from which country it is made. However, you may now refer to the barcode - remember if the first 3 digits are: 690-692 ... then it is MADE IN CHINA 00 - 09 ... USA & CANADA 30 - 37 FRANCE 40 - 44 GERMANY 471 ... Taiwan 49 ... JAPAN 50 ... UK BUY USA & CANADIAN MADE by watching for "0" at the beginning of the number. We need every boost we can get! Pass this on to everybody on your E-Mail Contact List!! If the government won't help us, we MUST help ourselves.
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Post by kk on Sept 19, 2015 4:06:26 GMT -5
I'm afraid those numbers will help you nowhere whit certainty. You need to know the legal definition of "made in" first. Packaging alone often reaches the required percentage of worth, to declare something as made in that particular country.
So numbers are fine and good, but not reliable at all. You want to ensure local produce passes your lips, then hope that you are lucky enough to buy directly from producers in your neighbourhood. I don't know any farmer, that would not be happy to supply directly to consumers when things become available.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2015 5:40:49 GMT -5
Hi KK. We have a garden and a farmers market here every Monday during the summer but our climate doesn't allow us the pleasure of a year round fresh supply of local food. Produce (vegetables and fruit) are available in the grocery stores year round but it is all trucked in during the winter and of course more expensive. Very few vegetarians here also. People like me that hate to cook either eat a lot of packaged food or things like grapes and cheese which is my favorite meal.
They may have been available somewhere if I would have looked hard enough but the big cities I have lived in did not have open markets like everywhere in China. South China is where I was so I do not know how it is in the colder areas of that country.
The numbers I posted are at least a starting point and I would think that the bar codes here would have to mean that the food and not the packaging was made in the country listed. Might be something to look into more though because I have seen the conditions and lack of any quality control in China. Many people there will do some pretty low things to make sure the yuan keep rolling in.
While I was there a water bottling plant got busted because the facility was very little more sanitary than a sewer. You can not drink the water out of the faucet but in some cases the bottled water was worse.
China has a long way to go to get their quality control up to even close to what we have or what you find in places like Europe. Europe is probably above what we have here because here the corporations now control most everything, write their own rules and police themselves. Sometimes it looks like we are moving backwards. Jim
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Post by kk on Sept 19, 2015 6:27:00 GMT -5
Unfortunately, most people today can simply not afford good/healthy food. At times, things get so worse that you get accustomed to the bad stuff, that it takes a trip like mine last month to realize just how bad things are on daily basis. The stuff we ate in Europe was superb. We ate like crazy, yet still lost weight. Body just took it up like a sponge, yet still managed to consume more energy than taken in.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 19, 2015 10:49:42 GMT -5
My son cooks for six and struggles to pay for the ingredients but refuses to feed the kids junk unless he absolutely has to. It amazes me that the processed food is cheaper than buying the real thing and cooking it yourself. Jim
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Post by Rockoonz on Sept 19, 2015 20:30:42 GMT -5
My son cooks for six and struggles to pay for the ingredients but refuses to feed the kids junk unless he absolutely has to. It amazes me that the processed food is cheaper than buying the real thing and cooking it yourself. Jim Not amazing at all when you know what's in it and the way the ingredients are produced. Has your son looked into gleaners groups in his area?
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Post by jakesrocks on Sept 19, 2015 21:34:47 GMT -5
I try not to buy produce coming from Mexico either. While living in California I've seen Mexican field workers pee in the rows of vegetables, and even lower their pants & take a big dump in the rows.
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