"JoeSpareBedroom" > wrote in message
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>> Take away all the imported foods and the stores will be very barren. Not
>> to mentions when other countries stop buying our farm goods. Your
>> simplistic statement has serious repercussions.
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> Since the majority of foods are not marked with their country of origin,
> how do you know this?

Start with the produce aisle. Just look at all that out of season fruit
that comes from south of the equator. Peek into the seafood case at the
shrimp from Taiwan, lobster from Canada. IMO, we make some of the best
cheddar cheeses, but if you want most of the others, take a peek at where
they come from. Don't forget the pasta. Amazing how cheap it can be sold
even though some of the most popular brands comes from Italy.

More and more candy is coming from either Mexico or Canada, even Hershey is
building a plant in Mexico. Thanks to our sugar pricing regulations.

My company makes foam containers for shipping seafood. I've been to
processing houses that take a truckload of our boxes a day and fill them
with fish and ship them to Portugal. You must have seen all the ships
loaded with wheat going to Russia. Less publicized is the boatloads of food
we ship to Cuba. How about rice to Japan and other countries in the Orient?

Back in the days of the Cold War, the Russians were the bad guys, but I was
amazed to find out just how much radioactive material was shipped into a
large New England company where it was used for making medical diagnostics.

Just as important, check out who owns some of the largest food store chains
in the US. Stop & Shop = Royal Ahold, a Dutch company.

If you get bored in the supermarket, take a trip to the airport cargo area
and watch tons of food being unloaded, as well as loaded. Foreign cars get
a lot of publicity and had good coming from China, but there is a lot of
food being moved around the world these days too. Much comes from overseas,
like the 3 Diamonds stuff. We tend not to notice the country of origin,but
quite a bit is marked.