Even popular American food products may no longer be made in America

[Rt&Dzine]

OP here.

The subject of this discussion is not about cereal or diet. Sorry.

It's about our rights to know where things are really made or produced, especially food products. Companies should not try to hide the information from us. By hiding, they are acknowledging they are not 100% confident.

One problem is that it could be made in a particular country but some of the raw ingredients may come from somewhere else. That's common with prescription medicine like antibiotics and that's what happened with the poisoned pet food. The tainted wheat gluten came from China.

 

[Sydde]

I stopped eating cereal because it's bad for u

Especially milk

I found that Rice Dream stuff a very good replacement for milk on cereal — whenever I run out of Bailey's

 

[snberk103]

OP here.

The subject of this discussion is not about cereal or diet. Sorry.

It's about our rights to know where things are really made or produced, especially food products. Companies should not try to hide the information from us. By hiding, they are acknowledging they are not 100% confident.

I don't believe it's "right", sorry. It's a good thing to know where your food comes from.... I agree with that. But it's not a "right".

But like I posted earlier, buy your food from local producers. If enough people do that, the supermarkets will notice. Our supermarket has started buying some of it's produce straight off the farmer's trucks. It's wonderful, and we are encouraging it by buying it. Costs a bit more, but I know where the food came from, and it tastes wonderful.

We've adopted a modified 160km (100 mile) diet. We average out the distances. If we eat peas that that grew 5km from the house, we can buy something exotic from further away. We don't actually keep track - that would be too much work - but we do try to average it out, generally.

 

[JoeG4]

I put extra effort into making sure my food was made in China

Also: I eat McDonalds a lot

 

[glocke12]

that said, I've found lots of random products (like generic jelly) that were in fact labeled "Product of China".

I kinda find the whole thing a little bit racist. I bet you wouldn't blink an eye if it said Product of Japan.

How is it racist to want the food you eat to be manufactured in a country that you know has standards in place to ensure quality?

 

[snberk103]

How is it racist to want the food you eat to be manufactured in a country that you know has standards in place to ensure quality?

If I wanted to be difficult, I could point out that the US has, in the past, pushed it's "cuisine" (often through trade sanctions and trade litigation) into other countries who didn't want the nutritional blackholes of McDonalds, KFC, BK, DQ, etc etc

Many countries resisted accepting these "foods" since they didn't meet local standards for health and nutrition, but were told that "Free Trade is good", and it's up to consumer to choose. And it took many years before the ingredient lists (analogous to the "made in" label") for these "foods" was made public due to "competitive reasons". So, now that the foot is in the other shoe - just be aware of being called hypocritical.

And yes, I am aware of the argument that there are differences between the occasional instance of food being washed in a potentially cancer causing wax, and food that is completely standardized across the industry, and that is nutritionally lacking and causes obesity, and a slew of other chronic health conditions.