Reply #31: I urge everyone to write letters/email any companies they buy products from and ask them where their

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ingredients are coming from. I started doing that 3 weeks ago as the Melamine tainted Gluten in the Pet Food started coming out and I really started wondering whether it had entered into the Human food supply.

One company I buy from, "Hodgson Mills", makes Bread Mix and Pancake mix and they include Wheat Gluten. I sent them an email point blank asking them whether their wheat gluten was imported from China and if they tested their ingredients. They wrote me back and assured me that their supplies of Wheat Gluten were all domestic and had been tested.

I urge each of you to buying locally as much as you can and the products you don't, start writing and demanding to know from the companies where their ingredients are coming from. If they are, demand they stop and let them know you will not buy their product anymore.

I am so upset about this recent news and am absolutely convinced that the Melamine tainted Gluten and who knows what else from China has entered our food supply. And I don't know about you all, but I don't feel any reassurance about the Melamine not being a threat to our health. So it isn't killing us now....instead, does it affect us in a few years? I think that this is going to be the beginning of us all waking up and realizing that literally we are being poisoned.

I also think we all need to start demanding our elected officials investigate this and that tighter controls be placed on imports from China and also that "Country of Origin" labeling be mandatory, now!