On 6/9/2013 12:52 PM, James Silverton wrote:
> On 6/9/2013 2:39 PM, casa bona wrote:
>> On 6/9/2013 12:12 PM, sf wrote:
>>> Just confirming what we already knew, but it's concerning all the
>>> same.
>>>
>>> Here's part of the text:
>>>
>>> With the rise of industrial organic, these more revolutionary impulses
>>> have disappeared. Corporations have adopted practices that make a
>>> mockery of what people think they are buying when they pay extra for
>>> an eco-friendly label. For one, major organic brands now source from
>>> across the globe. Stonyfield yogurt uses milk from New Zealand,
>>> bananas from Ecuador, and apple products from Turkey. Costco gets
>>> organic peanuts from China, a country not known for rigorous
>>> environmental regulation. And these are not isolated examples.
>>>
>>> http://truth-out.org/opinion/item/16...lty-fair-trade
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for that, I'm becoming a real label-reading skeptic, shopping
>> takes a lot longer these days.
>
> I was surprised to find on a jar of cornichons labelled with a French
> name, there was also "Packed in India".
>
That's just astoundingly wrong. I'm going to have to examine my capers
in future too. It's become well nigh impossible, save for early fall, to
find actual American (New Mexico) pinon nuts. Costco has these immense
bags from China - not the same taste at all.