Sqwertz wrote:
> On Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:42:40 -0700, Mark Thorson wrote:
>
>
>>After the Irish bacon fiasco, UK's biggest supermarket Tesco
>>will start labelling all meat products with country of origin.
>>
>>Under UK law, it's legal to to label a product as "produced
>>in the UK" even when the meat it contains was imported.
>>Tesco is going to stop doing this.
>>
>>http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddr...labelling.html
>
>
> I believe it just made law here as well, after much whining and
> lobbying. Fruits, veggies and meats.
>
> Most stores have already been complying with it anyway. Everything
> I buy is labeled or is covered by a clearly posted blanket statement
> ("All meat is otherwise from the U.S."), with exceptions noted on
> the labels.
>
> -sw
I used to buy a lot of processed & very inexpensive Chinese imported
food products.
The Asian shopping area i live near has big boxes of decent cookies and
lots of rather exotic instant "cup o soup" type products that i could
get very inexpensively that were all manufactured in China.
I don't do that any more. And even though an elderly relative i cook
for has to have a diet that eliminates most all commercial, processed,
pre packaged foods i stopped buying the Chinese food products because
to the recent scandals about the 'tainted' Chinese food products.
Fortunately my soy sauce and a few other "Asian" products i still
purchase are made in the U.S.A.
Im no sineophobe, i have studied Chinese history causes it interests me,
i often cook Chinese recipes, "some of my best friends are Chinese" but
i wont buy Chinese imported manufactured food products imported from
China any more. Tooth paste or cat food either for that matter. Though
given my cats i doubt they would eat it. I have had serious doubts about
the Chinese toilet paper, call me paranoid but last time i bought a big
box i 'bought American" rather than the some what cheaper rolls of
Chinese toilet paper.
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