"Dee.Dee" > wrote in
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> I've noticed "Distributed ......... Trader Joe's ...."
> quite a lot lately. It makes me uncomfortable.

have you tried writing (or calling) to corporate & voicing
your concerns about unlabelled sourcing? it particularly helps
if you can be specific about your concerns (I do not wish to
purchase anything from China) & explain that you will be
unable to buy from them until your concerns are answered in a
satisfactory to you manner. then get as many
friends/aquaintances as possible to send similar letters or
make similar calls.
if no one says anything or stops buying unlabeled stuff, why
should they change how they operate?

> I don't know how true it is that 98% of vitamins are made
> in China -- yee Gawds! Perhaps I'll just eat dog food
> instead.

it's quite probable. however, eating dogfood is rather a
suicidal answer, given where the dogfood ingredients come
from...

>> It isn' t that all Chinese exports are bad or dangerous,
>> but this country no longer has any sort of adequate
>> structure to monitor imports adequately or the food
>> processors and manufacturers here in the US. Where is
>> Upton Sinclair when we need him?

> Upton has been gone waaaaay tooo many years. The jungle
> has grown around us. HELP!

i was told by a high school student that The Jungle is no
longer on the reading lists. my guess is that the big
businesses now are paying big bucks to have it replaced with
something more innocuous, like The Handmaiden's Tale...
lee