do you know where and by who your food is produced

[FUCK THE POLICE]

I just don't buy processed food, never have, except for the occasional frozen pizza (Freshetta 4-cheese is yummy!). Meat and chicken come from a local butcher, the origin of fish at the supermarket is identified, and all fruits and veggies are similarly identified by state and nation. The bread is baked in-store (but I don't know where the ingredients were produced) and my granola comes from Tennessee. The brands of dog food we buy were not among those at risk in the melamine-for-gluten fiasco, thankfully.

I am concerned about where ingredients come from, and I applaud the recent proposal to require origins of ingredients on all labels.

I don't worry about it. These fearmongerer's just go around preaching it for no other reason than to spread there irrational protectionist sentiments. There are SO MANY more things in life to worry about dying from, even spending TIME on this is BEYOND trivial.

 

[FUCK THE POLICE]

actually several died in Panama or somesuch from poision medical ingredients from china....

Another one of US's "Yeah, someone did something a few years ago..." stories.

Look, I'm sure it wasn't 500,000 people. And 500,000 people die from fat every year. And that's just in America. Probably a bunch in Panama too, I just haven't been keeping up with the statistics.

 

[Don Quixote]

Now that the whole "organic food" thing is beginning to lose it's currency -- thankfully so: it was always pretty darned silly -- the more thoughtful people concerned with quality of food are turning to more achievable goals. And more reasonable slogans, too.

"Locally grown" is the new "organic" and it makes much more sense.

ob

we use produce from the local farmers market in the beautiful santa ynez valley

however, when some food stuff is out of season here, we have to do with imported

oh well

 

[Don Quixote]

Yeah the whole organic thing...
Cyanide is organic and naturally occuring.

usc

organic it is not, but necessary it is - to little and we die, too much and we die - oh well, same for salt


how about moderation in all things including moderation

 

[Don Quixote]

Worry about cancer or that Jelly donut you're eating. The likelihood that you'll die because you're food came from China is so small it's not even worth considering. Stop being so melodramatic.

w

yes, life is a sexually transmitted fatal disease

however, it is not just imports from china that we need to be concerned about but food raised right here in the good old us of a too

seems that the food inspection process is a bit under funded, especially for produce

 

[uscitizen]

usc

organic it is not, but necessary it is - to little and we die, too much and we die - oh well, same for salt


how about moderation in all things including moderation

I agree moderation, but I do believe cyanide happens naturally in plants, peach pits for example, unless I have it cornfused with arsenic.

 

[uscitizen]

Birth is the sole cause of all deaths.