"Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa gmail.com> wrote:

> John Doe wrote
>
>> canned tuna, including albacore various packaged fruits (like
>> Del Monte and Dole brand)
>
>> Is there any way to find out where common foods are made?
>
> Not usually. Most labelling at most says that imported
> ingredients are used.
>
>> Any other common foods made in China that most of us might not
>> know about?
>
> Plenty of vegetables and frozen fruit etc comes from china now.
>
>> I am surprised that so many baby products are made in China,
>> including baby bottles, pacifiers, and teething rings.
>> Apparently saving a few pennies has been a consumers' only
>> concern over the last decade or so.
>
> It isnt just saving pennys, quite a bit of the time it isnt even
> possible to find stuff that isnt made in china now.

It happened little by little over time, that situation did not
come about overnight, it began with pathetic leadership and a
consumers desire to save a few pennies... Without regard to
putting our fellow Democratic countrymen out of work, without
concern for using slave labor (in China), and without concern
about the materials and workmanship.
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