Whole Foods selling 'organic' foods made in China.

[CurtEastPoint]

There is so much wrong with that statement. "California Blend" frozen vegetables...big print on front. made in China in much much smaller print on the back.

I'm sure they're not the only ones doing it.

Consumers beware!

"ITeam Investigative Report" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQ31Ljd9T_Y

[Dappleganger]

1. Probably full of lead...

as if we should trust *anything* China says about their food supply.

[XemaSab]

3. Lead

in a nice mercury gravy. x(

[tsuki]

10. With a side of cadmium. nt

[Quantess]

11. And melamine. And cadmium.

Their farm raised seafood lived their miserable lives in an overcrowded, scummy pond.

I don't trust any food items from China.

[WCGreen]

22. Lead is natural why quibble...

[OhioChick]

2. I check where all of my food comes from...

If I see a "Product of China" label...I put it back.

[closeupready]

32. I absolutely do the same thing.

Not worth the risk.

[graywarrior]

4. Jeeze, remember the cat and dog deaths?

[Dappleganger]

7. Absolutely frightening...

we had just adopted our first doxie puppy and I was scampering to find a safe food supply. We settled upon Flint River Ranch which uses ALL US food sources and human-grade production equipment. Better safe than sorry.

[graywarrior]

14. My cat's been eating brown rice and beans ever since....lol

[Dappleganger]

18. cats+beans=???

Dear god, I would not wish to be around to witness what happens next!

[graywarrior]

20. Multiple gasms

[Dappleganger]

29. You're a stronger person than I...

there's enough rampant gas going on around in our house, we sure don't need anymore! :rofl:

[KamaAina]

38. I thought cats had to eat meat

since they cannot synthesize the amino acid taurine, without which they would go blind.

[graywarrior]

39. My cat hates fish or red meat.

He's fucked up. I feed him dry cat food, which he'll eat but he loves cantelope, broccoli, soy yogurt, carrots, lettuce, frozen blueberries, and would kill for brown rice.

[roody]

5. Read the labels!! Don't buy it.

[DebbieCDC]

6. Buy from local co-ops or farmer's markets if you can

[OhioChick]

8. Green Giant and Dole have many items that are produced in China, as well. n/t

[onehandle]

9. Whole Foods is the Wal-Mart of 'healthy food.'

So the China revelation is no surprise.

[grasswire]

12. I was worried about the Kroger frozen spinach the other day...

..because there was no country of origin. It just said "distributed by Kroger" and to me that indicates they're hiding something.

[OhioChick]

13. I've come across that recently...

I just put it back. Better to be safe, than sorry.

[4lbs]

16. According to this recent article (Oct 2009), Kroger manufactures at least half it's own brand foods.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/10/07/ap/business/main5368664.shtml

<snip>
Kroger makes almost half its roughly 14,400 in-house products, while most grocers contract with other companies to make such items. The company _ the nation's largest grocery seller aside from Wal-Mart Stores Inc. _ has the biggest self-owned manufacturing operation with 40 factories, followed by Safeway Inc., which has 32.

Making store-brand products itself gives companies better control over costs and production decisions, a key advantage as consumers' recession-driven frugality eats into sales and grocers cut prices. Less than four weeks after Kroger executives approved producing ice cream in four-quart pails at the plant here, hundreds of thousands had reached stores.
<snip>

[PVnRT]

30. They're also union (UFCW)

[NYC_SKP]

24. Lobby congress to require clear and unambiguous labelling.

I've watched over the years as this has gotten worse and worse.

Buy local, buy American.

And write letters of support to good companies, letters of complaint to bad ones, and letters complaining to congress.

[Zoeisright]

15. That's about what I would expect from 'Whole' Foods.

Bastards.

[MissB]

17. Costco sells dried organic fruit made in China

And it's not like I live in the apple/pear producing area or anything.

Wugh. The thought of fruit grown in china, processed in china, and then shipped across the ocean....

[efhmc]

19. Told a produce manager that the garlic he had on the shelf

was from China and he said didn't think so. I insisted that he go to the back and check the original box. Sure enough. He was genuinely surprised. I almost always grow my own garlic but was short so went to HEB (Tx store) to get some and found nothing from the US. The man was really surprised. Found some from Cal at a different store, not organic but US produced, so got.

[troubledamerican]

21. Boycott Whole Foods & their Neocon CEO

[Odin2005]

23. This is why I tell people that "Organic" is mostly a scam.

[snagglepuss]

25. I found out about this last Spring when looking for organic sunflower seeds

Everywhere I looked I only found seeds from China (I refuse to buy food from China). At Whole Foods I asked a Manager why and he said no one else is growing sunflower seeds.

[LuckyLib]

31. Bull-oney. He needs to do his homework.

[snagglepuss]

40. I've searched online for organic sunflower seeds producers, the only

one I recall finding is a Canadian company but they only sell prepackaged unshelled sunflower seeds which isn't what I want. Be my guest if you can find a sunflower seed producer that isn't from China.

[LeftyMom]

26. I used to work for a supplier. They were THE LEAST PICKY chain we dealt with.

Most chains, including some of he better non-health food chains, wanted to see a lot of information about our ingredients and to get tons of samples for the corporate approval, then the samples would sell the product to the store/dept managers. WF wanted very basic ingredient info for the corporate approval, but all the store/dept managers wanted to know was how well our stuff had sold at other WF stores, and whether corporate had assigned us a slot on the shelves.

By comparison, small local health food shops tended to have the most questions about our ingredients and production. They were definitely the choosiest about their products from what I could tell in my little corner of the industry.

[jxnmsdemguy65]

27. I always check any frozen veggies I pick up in the store...

to make sure they aren't made in China. NEVER buy fish from China. I once mistakenly bought some farm raised salmon that had been raised there. You could taste the contamination. The whole package went in the garbage.

[create.peace]

28. don't buy salt-water farmed fish at all! or farmed shellfish...nt

[Brickbat]

33. I read the label of everything I buy and if the food says "Made in China" I don't buy it. I don't

care how "organic" it is. If it's from China, it's instantly suspect regarding labor, trade, and environmental regulations.

[cali]

34. I posted this a while back:

Your organic food: Made in China Part 1. Why you should give a hill of beans about it


http://vtdigger.org/2009/12/02/your-organic-food-made-in-china-part-1-why-you-should-give-a-hill-of-beans/

[cascadiance]

35. One more reason for me to continue going to New Seasons here in Portland instead...

Buy local! Buy local!

[old mark]

36. US Pharma companies buy many of their component drugs from China...

did anyone notice a price cut in prescriptions?


mark

[Hannah Bell]

37. also vitamins. e.g. most vit c comes from china,

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003732744_vitamins03.html


Chinese pharmaceutical companies also have taken over much of the world market in the production of antibiotics, analgesics, enzymes and primary amino acids. According to an industry group, China makes 70 percent of the world's penicillin, 50 percent of its aspirin and 35 percent of its acetaminophen (often sold under the brand name Tylenol), as well as the bulk of vitamins A, B12, C and E.